1715, May 28. Pennsylvania: £5 Duty Act.
"An Act for laying a Duty on Negroes imported into this province." Disallowed by Great Britain, 1719. Acts and Laws of Pennsylvania, 1715, p. 270; Colonial Records (1852), III. 75–6; Chalmers, Opinions, II. 118.
1715, June 3. Maryland: 20s. Duty Act.
"An Act laying an Imposition on Negroes ...; and also on Irish Servants, to prevent the importing too great a Number of Irish Papists into this Province." Supplemented April 23, 1735, and July 25, 1754. Compleat Collection of the Laws of Maryland (ed. 1727), p. 157; Bacon, Laws, 1715, ch. xxxvi. §8; 1735, ch. vi. §§1–3; Acts of Assembly, 1754, p. 10.
1716, June 30. South Carolina: £3 Duty Act.
"An Act for laying an Imposition on Liquors, Goods and Merchandizes, Imported into and Exported
out of this Province, for the raising of a Fund of Money towards the defraying the publick charges and expences of the Government." A duty of £3 was laid on African slaves, and £30 on American slaves. Cooper, Statutes, II. 649.
1716. New York: 5 oz. and 10 oz. plate Duty Act.
"An Act to Oblige all Vessels Trading into this Colony (except such as are therein excepted) to pay a certain Duty; and for the further Explanation and rendring more Effectual certain Clauses in an Act of General Assembly of this Colony, Intituled, An Act by which a Duty is laid on Negroes, and other Slaves, imported into this Colony." The act referred to is not to be found. Acts of Assembly, 1691–1718, p. 224.
1717, June 8. Maryland: Additional 20s. Duty Act.