rawford, _Digest of the Laws of Georgia_, pp. 440, 442.
The exact text of this act appears not to be extant. Section
I. is stated to have been "re-enacted by the constitution."
Possibly this act prohibited slaves also, although this is not
certain. Georgia passed several regulative acts between 1755
and 1793. Cf. Renne, _Colonial Acts of Georgia_, pp. 73-4,
164, note.

[2] Marbury and Crawford, _Digest_, p. 30, Sec. 11. The clause
was penned by Peter J. Carnes of Jefferson. Cf. W.B. Stevens,
_History of Georgia_ (1847), II. 501.

[3] Grimke, _Public Laws_, p. 466.

[4] Cooper and McCord, _Statutes_, VII. 431.

[5] _Ibid._, VII. 433-6, 444, 447.

[6] _Ibid._, VII. 449.

[7] Martin, _Iredell's Acts of Assembly_, I. 492.

[8] _Ibid._, II. 53.

[9] Cf. _Ibid._, II. 94; _Laws of North Carolina_ (revision of
1819), I. 786.

[10] Virginia codified her whole slave legislation in 1792
(_Va. Statutes at Large_, New Ser., I. 122), and amended her
laws in 1798 and 1806 (_Ibid._, III. 251).

[11] Dorsey, _Laws of Maryland, 1796_, I. 334.

[12] _Laws of Delaware, 1797_ (Newcastle ed.), p. 942, ch. 194 b.

[13] Dallas, _Laws_, II. 586.

[14] Paterson, _Digest of the Laws of New Jersey_ (1800), pp.
307-13. In 1804 New Jersey passed an act gradually to abolish
slavery. The legislation of New York at this period was
confined to regulating the exportation of slave criminals
(1790), and to passing an act gradually abolishing slavery
(1799). In 1801 she codified all her acts.

[15] _Acts and Laws of Connecticut_ (ed. 1784), pp. 368, 369, 388.

[16] _Ibid._, p. 412.

[17] _Perpetual Laws of Massachusetts, 1780-89_, pp. 235-6.

[18] _Queries Respecting Slavery_, etc., in _Mass. Hist. Soc.
Coll._, 1st Ser., IV. 205.

[19] _Annals of Cong._, 1 Cong, 1 sess. pp. 336-41.

[20] _Annals of Cong._, 1 Cong. 1 sess. p. 903.

[21] _Ibid._, 1 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1182-3.

[22] _Journals of Cong., 1782-3_, pp. 418-9. Cf. above, pp.
56-57.

[23] _Annals of Cong._, 1 Cong. 2 sess. p. 1184.

[24] _Ibid._, pp. 1182-91.

[25] _Annals of Cong._, 1 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1197-1205.

[26] _House Journal_ (repr. 1826), 1 Cong. 2 sess. I. 157-8.

[27] _Annals of Cong._, I Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1413-7.

[28] For the reports and debates, cf. _Annals of Cong._, 1
Cong. 2 sess. pp. 1413-7, 1450-74;