1709, Sept. 24.  New York:  L3 Duty Act.

“An Act for Laying a Duty on the Tonnage of Vessels and Slaves.”  A duty of L3 was laid on slaves not imported directly from their native country.  Continued by Act of Oct. 30, 1710. Acts of Assembly, 1691-1718, pp. 97, 125, 134; Laws of New York, 1691-1773, p. 83.

1710, Dec. 28.  Pennsylvania:  40s.  Duty Act.

“An impost Act, laying a duty on Negroes, wine, rum and other spirits, cyder and vessels.”  Repealed by order in Council Feb. 20, 1713.  Carey and Bioren, Laws, I. 82; Bettle, Notices of Negro Slavery, in Penn.  Hist.  Soc.  Mem. (1864), I. 415.

1710.  Virginia:  L5 Duty Act.

“Intended to discourage the importation” of slaves.  Title and text not found.  Disallowed (?). Governor Spotswood to the Lords of Trade, in Va.  Hist.  Soc.  Coll., New Series, I. 52.

1711, July-Aug.  New York:  Act of 1709 Strengthened.

“An Act for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act of General Assembly, Intituled, An Act for Laying a Duty on the Tonnage of Vessels and Slaves.” Acts of Assembly, 1691-1718, p. 134.

1711, December.  New York:  Bill to Increase Duty.

Bill for laying a further duty on slaves.  Passed Assembly; lost in
Council. Doc. rel.  Col.  Hist.  New York, V. 293.

1711.  Pennsylvania:  Testimony of Quakers.

" ... the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia, on a representation from the Quarterly Meeting of Chester, that the buying and encouraging the importation of negroes was still practised by some of the members of the society, again repeated and enforced the observance of the advice issued in 1696, and further directed all merchants and factors to write to their correspondents and discourage their sending any more negroes.”  Bettle, Notices of Negro Slavery, in Penn.  Hist.  Soc.  Mem. (1864), I. 386.

1712, June 7.  Pennsylvania:  Prohibitive (?) Duty Act.

“A supplementary Act to an act, entituled, An impost act, laying a duty on Negroes, rum,” etc.  Disallowed by Great Britain, 1713.  Carey and Bioren, Laws, I. 87, 88.  Cf. Colonial Records (1852), II. 553.

1712, June 7.  Pennsylvania:  Prohibitive Duty Act.

“An act to prevent the Importation of Negroes and Indians into this Province.”

“Whereas Divers Plots and Insurrections have frequently happened, not only in the Islands, but on the Main Land of America, by Negroes, which have been carried on so far that several of the Inhabitants have been thereby barbarously Murthered, an instance whereof we have lately had in our neighboring Colony of New York.  And whereas the Importation of Indian Slaves hath given our Neighboring Indians in this Province some umbrage of Suspicion and Dis-satisfaction.  For Prevention of all which for the future,