lieved on the law against importation; five will probably be
relieved, the other fourteen cases on which as well as on the above
suits are pending are doubtful. A suit in Norfolk court and one in
North Carolina now carrying on at the expense of this society.

_Virginia Society._ Nothing of material importance since the
convention of 1796. Suits commenced before now pending in behalf of
between twenty and thirty persons.

Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Washington, Delaware, Chester-town,
Winchester, and Kentucky societies sent no account.

V. _A Statement of the condition of the blacks in each State both bond
and free, with respect to the property of the free, and the employment
and moral conduct of all._

_New-York._ The number of people of color in the state of New-York not
known--exceeds two thousand--in the city names of one thousand
collected--of these more than half are free, employed as servants,
labourers, sailors, mechanics, &c.--a few are small traders--condition
tolerable--many in town and country freeholders--several worth from
three hundred to thirteen hundred dollars--various associations among
the free blacks for mutual support, benefit and improvement--one has
a lot for a burying ground and the site of a church worth fifteen
hundred dollars. In a state of progressive improvement.

_New-Jersey._ Condition, as to enjoyments of life and respectability,
much the same as in New-York.

_Pennsylvania._ Complied with in 1796. See the minutes of the
convention of that year--page 20 and 21.

_Maryland at Baltimore & Choptank._ The condition of the blacks from
the information this society has received is greatly ameliorated, and
some few of the free are enabled to provide for themselves without
manual labor--moral conduct equal to that of the whites in like
circumstances--minute information not yet obtained.

_Alexandria._ Generally slaves--their treatment less rigourous than
formerly--moral conduct of the free generally good--as labourers
preferred to the whites.

From Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Washington, Wilmington, Delaware,
Chester-town, Virginia, Winchester and Kentucky Societies,--none sent.

VI. _Reports of trials and adjudications relative to Africans._

_New-York._ A bill for the gradual abolition of slavery brought into
the Legislature at their last session, but postponed till the next
session.

_New-Jersey._ A bill brought into the last session of the Legislature
for a gradual abolition o