[20] This duty avoided the letter of the English instructions by making the duty payable by the first purchasers, and not by the importers. Cf. Cooper, Statutes, IV. 187.
[21] Grimké, Public Laws, p. lxviii, Nos. 1485, 1486; Cooper, Statutes, VII. 430.
[22] Cf. N.C. Col. Rec., IV. 172.
[23] Martin, Iredell's Acts of Assembly, I. 413, 492.
[24] The following is a summary of the legislation of the colony of Virginia; details will be found in Appendix A:—
| 1710, | Duty Act: | proposed duty of £5. | |
| 1723, | " | prohibitive (?). | |
| 1727, | " | " | |
| 1732, | " | 5%. | |
| 1736, | " | " | |
| 1740, | " | additional duty of | 5%. |
| 1754, | " | " | 5%. |
| 1755, | " | " | 10% (Repealed, 1760). |
| 1757, | " | " | 10% (Repealed, 1761). |
| 1759, | " | 20% on colonial slaves. | |
| 1766, | " | additional duty of 10% (Disallowed?). | |
| 1769, | " | " | |
| 1772, | " | £5 on colonial slaves. | |
| Petition of Burgesses vs. Slave-trade. | |||
| 1776, | Arraignment of the king in the adopted Frame of Government. | ||
| 1778, | Importation prohibited. | ||
[25] Letters of Governor Spotswood, in Va. Hist. Soc. Coll., New Ser., I. 52.
[26] Hening, Statutes at Large of Virginia, IV. 118, 182.
[27] Ibid., IV. 317, 394; V. 28, 160, 318; VI. 217, 353; VII. 281; VIII. 190, 336, 532.
[28] Ibid., V. 92; VI. 417, 419, 461, 466.