orfeit 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March 1787, are hereby repealed." Grimke, _Public Laws_, p. 466.

~1789, Feb. 3. Delaware: Slave-Trade Prohibited.~

"_An additional Supplementary_ ACT _to an act, intituled_, An act to
prevent the exportation of slaves, and for other purposes."

"Whereas it is inconsistent with that spirit of general liberty which
pervades the constitution of this state, that vessels should be fitted
out, or equipped, in any of the ports thereof, for the purpose of
receiving and transporting the natives of Africa to places where they
are held in slavery; or that any acts should be deemed lawful, which
tend to encourage or promote such iniquitous traffic among us:

Sec. 1. "_Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of Delaware_,
That if any owner or owners, master, agent, or factor, shall fit out,
equip, man, or otherwise prepare, any ship or vessel within any port or
place in this state, or shall cause any ship, or other vessel, to sail
from any port or place in this state, for the purpose of carrying on a
trade or traffic in slaves, to, from, or between, Europe, Asia, Africa,
or America, or any places or countries whatever, or of transporting
slaves to, or from, one port or place to another, in any part or parts
of the world; such ship or vessel, her tackle, f