For text, see above, page 40. Colonial Records, I. 243.
1655, Aug. 6. New Netherland: Ten per cent Export Duty.
"Ordinance of the Director General and Council of New Netherland, imposing a Duty on exported Negroes." O'Callaghan, Laws of New Netherland, p. 191.
1664, March 12. Duke of York's Patent: Slavery Regulated.
"Lawes establisht by the Authority of his Majesties Letters patents, granted to his Royall Highnes James Duke of Yorke and Albany; Bearing Date the 12th Day of March in the Sixteenth year of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Kinge Charles the Second." First published at Long Island in 1664.
"Bond slavery": "No Christian shall be kept in Bond-slavery villenage or Captivity, Except Such who shall be Judged thereunto by Authority, or such as willingly have sould, or shall sell themselves," etc. Apprenticeship allowed. Charter to William Penn, and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania (1879), pp. 3, 12.
1672, October. Connecticut: Law against Man-Stealing.
"The General Laws and Liberties of Conecticut
"Capital Laws": 10. "If any Man stealeth a Man or Man kinde, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall be put to death. Exod. 21. 16." Laws of Connecticut, 1672 (repr. 1865), p. 9.
1676, March 3. West New Jersey: Slavery Prohibited (?).