into this state, with a _bona
fide_ intention of settling therein, and who shall actually reside
within this state for one year at least, ... to import or bring in any
slave or slaves which before belonged to such person, and which slave or
slaves had been an inhabitant of some one of the United States, for the
space of three whole years next preceding such importation," etc. _Laws
of Maryland since 1763_: 1783, sess. April--June, ch. xxiii.

~1783, Aug. 13. South Carolina: L3 and L20 Duty Act.~

"An Act for levying and collecting certain duties and imposts therein
mentioned, in aid of the public revenue." Cooper, _Statutes_, IV. 576.

~1784, February. Rhode Island: Manumission.~

"An Act authorizing the manumission of negroes, mulattoes, and others,
and for the gradual abolition of slavery." Persons born after March,
1784, to be free. Bill framed pursuant to a petition of Quakers.
_Colonial Records_, X. 7-8; Arnold, _History of Rhode Island_, II. 503.

~1784, March 26. South Carolina: L3 and L5 Duty Act.~

"An Act for levying and collecting certain Duties," etc. Cooper,
_Statutes_, IV. 607.

~1785, April 12. New York: Partial Prohibition.~

"An Act granting a bounty on hemp to be raised within this State, and
imposing an additional duty on sundry articles of merchandise, and for
other purposes therein mentioned."

" ... _And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid_, That if
any negro or other person to be imported or brought into this State from
any of the United States or from any other place or country after the
first day of June next, shall be sold as a slave or slaves within this
State, the seller or his or her factor or agent, shall be deemed guilty
of a public offence, and shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of
one hundred pounds lawful money of New York, to be recovered by any
person," etc.

"_And be it further enacted_ ... That every such person imported or
brought into this State and sold contrary to the true intent and meaning
of this act shall be freed." _Laws of New York, 1785-88_ (ed. 1886), pp.
120-21.

~1785. Rhode Island: Restrictive Measure (?).~

Title and text not found. Cf. _Public Laws of Rhode Island_ (revision of
1822), p. 441.

~1786, March 2. New Jersey: Importation Prohibited.~

"An Act to prevent the importation of Slaves into the State of New
Jersey, and to authorize the Manumission of them under certain
restrictions, and to prevent the Abuse of