Resolve appointing the attorney-general to collect back duties on Negroes. Colonial Records, IV. 330.
1726, March 5. Pennsylvania: £10 Duty Act.
"An Act for the better regulating of Negroes in this province." Carey and Bioren, Laws, I. 214; Bettle, Notices of Negro Slavery, in Penn. Hist. Soc. Mem. (1864), I. 388.
1726, March 5. Pennsylvania: Duty Act.
"An Act for laying a duty on Negroes imported into this province." Carey and Bioren, Laws, I. 213.
1727, February. Virginia: Prohibitive Duty Act (?).
"An Act for laying a Duty on Slaves imported; and for appointing a Treasurer." Title only found; the duty was probably prohibitive; it was enacted with a suspending clause, and was not assented to by the king. Hening, Statutes, IV. 182.
1728, Aug. 31. New York: £2 and £4 Duty Act.
"An Act to repeal some Parts and to continue and enforce other Parts of the Act therein mentioned, and for granting several Duties to His Majesty, for supporting His Government in the Colony of New York" from Sept. 1, 1728, to Sept. 1, 1733. Same duty continued by Act of 1732. Laws of New York, 1691–1773, pp. 148, 171; Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York, VI. 32, 33, 34, 37, 38.