ears, to be
brought in from any of the United States or bordering countries.
Settlers may bring their slaves. Cooper, _Statutes_, VII. 431.

~1793, Dec. 19. Georgia: Importation Prohibited.~

"An act to prevent the importation of negroes into this state from the
places herein mentioned." Title only. Re-enacted (?) by the Constitution
of 1798. Marbury and Crawford, _Digest_, p. 442; Prince, _Digest_, p.
786.

~1794, North Carolina: Importation Prohibited.~

"An act to prevent the further importation and bringing of slaves and
indented servants of colour into this state."

Sec. 1. "_Be it enacted_ ..., That from and after the first day of May
next, no slave or indented servant of colour shall be imported or
brought into this state by land or water; nor shall any slave or
indented servant of colour, who may be imported or brought contrary to
the intent and meaning of this act, be bought, sold or hired by any
person whatever."

Sec. 2. Penalty for importing, L100 per slave; for buying or selling, the
same.

Sec. 4. Persons removing, travelling, etc., are excepted. The act was
amended slightly in 1796. Martin, _Iredell's Acts of Assembly_, II. 53,
94.

~1794, March 22. United States Statute: Export Slave-Trade Forbidden.~

"An Act to prohibit the carrying on the Slave Trade from the United
States to any foreign place or country." _Statutes at Large_, I. 347.
For proceedings in Congress, see _Senate Journal_ (repr. 1820), 3 Cong.
1 sess. II. 51; _House Journal_ (repr. 1826), 3 Cong. 1 sess. II. 76,
84, 85, 96, 98, 99, 100; _Annals of Cong._, 3 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 64, 70,
72.

~1794, Dec. 20. South Carolina: Act of 1792 Extended.~

"An Act to revive and extend an Act entitled '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 of Negro Slaves, Mulattoes, Indians, Moors or Mestizoes, bound for a
term of years, from any of the United States, by Land or Water.'"

Sec. 1. Act of 1792 extended until Jan. 1, 1797.

Sec. 2. It shall not be lawful hereafter to import slaves, free Negroes,
etc., from the West Indies, any part of America outside the United
States, "or from other parts beyond sea." Such slaves are to be
forfeited and sold; the importer to be fined L50; free Negroes to be
re-transported. Cooper, _Statutes_, VII. 433.

~1795. North Carolina: Act against West Indian Slaves.~

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