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Sec. 2. "Slaves which shall hereafter be brought into this commonwealth,
and kept therein one whole year together, or so long at different times
as shall amount to one year, shall be free."
Sec. 4. "_Provided_, That nothing in this act contained, shall be construed
to extend to those who may incline to remove from any of the United
States and become citizens of this, if within sixty days after such
removal, he or she shall take the following oath before some justice of
the peace of this commonwealth: '_I, A.B., do swear, that my removal
into the state of Virginia, was with no intent of evading the laws for
preventing the further importation of slaves, nor have I brought with me
any slaves, with an intention of selling them, nor have any of the
slaves which I have brought with me, been imported from Africa, or any
of the West India islands, since the first day of November_,'" 1778,
etc.
Sec. 53. This act to be in force immediately. _Statutes at Large of
Virginia, New Series_, I. 122.
~1792, Dec. 21. South Carolina: Importation Prohibited until 1795.~
"An Act to prohibit the importation of Slaves from Africa, or other
places beyond sea, into this State, for two years; and also to prohibit
the importation or bringing in Slaves, or Negroes, Mulattoes, Indians,
Moors or Mestizoes, bound for a term of years, from any of the United
States, by land or by water.
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