" And all insurance on vessels and slaves shall be
void. This act to be given as evidence under general issue, in any suit
commenced for recovery of such insurance.
" ... if any Person shall kidnap ... any free Negro," etc., inhabitant
of this State, he shall forfeit L100. Every vessel clearing for the
coast of Africa or any other part of the world, and suspected to be in
the slave-trade, must give bond in L1000. Slightly amended in 1789.
_Acts and Laws of Connecticut_ (ed. 1784), pp. 368-9, 388.
~1788, Nov. 4. South Carolina: Temporary Prohibition.~
"An Act to regulate the Payment and Recovery of Debts, and to prohibit
the Importation of Negroes, for the Time therein limited."
Sec. 16. "No negro or other slave shall be imported or brought into this
State either by land or water on or before the first of January, 1793,
under the penalty of forfeiting every such slave or slaves to any person
who will sue or inform for the same; and under further penalty of
paying L100 to the use of the State for every such negro or slave so
imported or brought in: _Provided_, That nothing in this prohibition
contained shall extend to such slaves as are now the property of
citizens of the United States, and at the time of passing this act shall
be within the limits of the said United States.
Sec. 17. "All former instalment laws, and an ordinance imposing a penalty
on persons importing negroes into this State, passed the 28th day of
March 1787, are hereby repealed.
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