ot paid for. One half of the
penalty is to go to the informer, the other half to the use of the
county schools. The duty shall be collected, accounted for, and paid by
the naval officers, in the same manner as former duties on Negroes.

Sec. 2. But persons removing from any other of his Majesty's dominions in
order to settle and reside within this province, may import their slaves
for carrying on their proper occupations at the time of removal, duty
free.

Sec. 3. Importers of Negroes, exporting the same within two months of the
time of their importation, on application to the naval officer shall be
paid the aforesaid duty. Bacon, _Laws_, 1763, ch. xxviii.

~1763 (circa). New Jersey: Prohibitive Duty Act.~

"An Act for laying a duty on Negroes and Mulatto Slaves Imported into
this Province." Disallowed (?) by Great Britain. _N.J. Archives_, IX.
345-6, 383, 447, 458.

~1764, Aug. 25. South Carolina: Additional L100 Duty Act.~

"An Act for laying an additional duty upon all Negroes hereafter to be
imported into this Province, for the time therein mentioned, to be paid
by the first purchasers of such Negroes." Cooper, _Statutes_, IV 187.

~1766, November. Virginia: Proposed Duty Act.~

"An act for laying an additional duty upon slaves imported into this
colony."

Sec. 1. " ... from and after the passing of this act there shall be levied
and paid ... for all slaves imported or brought into this colony for
sale, either by land or water from any port or place whatsoever, by the
buyer or purchaser, after the rate of ten per centum on the amount of
each respective purchase over and above the several duties already laid
upon slaves imported or brought into this colony as aforesaid," etc. To
be suspended until the king's consent is given, and then to continue
seven years. The same act was passed again in 1769. Hening, _Statutes_,
VIII. 237, 337.

~1766. Rhode Island: Restrictive Measure (?).~

Title and text not found. Cf. _Digest_ of 1798, under "Slave Trade;"
_Public Laws of Rhode Island_ (revision of 1822), p. 441.

~1768, Feb. 20. Pennsylvania: Re-enactment of Acts of 1761.~

Titles only found. Dallas, _Laws_, I. 490; _Colonial Records_ (1852),
IX. 472, 637, 641.

~1769, Nov. 16. New Jersey: L15 Duty Act.~

"An Act for laying a Duty on the Purchasers of Slaves imported into this
Colony."

"Whereas Duties on the Importation of Negroes in several of the
neighbouring Colonies hath, on Experience,