other Countries and places for the supplying
of them--" it "being the usage of other nations to keepe their
[Plantations] Trade to themselves."

The Act of 1673 was passed to meet certain difficulties which arose
in the administration of the Act of 1660. The earlier act permitted
colonial vessels to carry enumerated commodities from the place of
production to another plantation without paying duties. Under cover of
this provision, it was assumed that enumerated commodities, after being
taken to a plantation, could then be sent directly to continental ports
free of duty. The new act provided that, before vessels left a colonial
port, bonds should be given that the enumerated commodities would be
carried only to England. If bonds were not given and the commodities
were taken to another colonial port, plantation duties were collected
according to a prescribed schedule.

These acts were not rigorously enforced until after the passage of the
administrative act of 1696 and the establishment of admiralty courts.
Even then it does not appear that they bore heavily on the colonies,
or occasioned serious protest. The trade acts of 1764 and 1765 are
described in "The Eve of the Revolution".--EDITOR.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The literature of the Colonial South is like the leaves of Vallombrosa
for multitude. Here may be indicated some volumes useful in any general
survey.

VIRGINIA

Hakluyt's "Principal Voyages." 12 vols. (Hakluyt Society. Extra Series,
1905-1907.) "The Prose Epic of the modern English nation."

"Purchas, His Pilgrims." 20 vols. (Hakluyt Society, Extra Series,
1905-1907.)

Hening's "Statutes at Large," published in 1823, is an eminently
valuable collection of the laws of colonial Virginia, beginning with the
Assembly of 1619. Hening's own quotation from Priestley, "The Laws of
a country are necessarily connected with everything belonging to the
people of it: so that a thorough knowledge of them and of their progress
would inform us of everything that was most useful to be known,"
indicates the range and weight of his thirteen volumes.

William Stith's "The History of the Discovery and First Settlement of
Virginia" (1747) gives some valuable documents and a picture of the
first years at Jamestown.

Alexander Brown's "Genesis of the United States", 2 vols. (1890), is
a very valuable work, giving historical manuscripts and tracts. Less
valuable is his "First Republic in America" (1898), in which t