“Be it Enacted ..., That from and after the Publication of this Act, upon the Importation of any Negro or Indian, by Land or Water, into this Province, there shall be paid by the Importer, Owner or Possessor thereof, the sum of Twenty Pounds per head, for every Negro or Indian so imported or brought in (except Negroes directly brought in from the West India Islands before the first Day of the Month called August next) unto the proper Officer herein after named, or that shall be appointed according to the Directions of this Act to receive the same,” etc.  Disallowed by Great Britain, 1713. Laws of Pennsylvania, collected, etc. (ed. 1714), p. 165; Colonial Records (1852), II. 553; Burge, Commentaries, I. 737, note; Penn.  Archives, I. 162.

1713, March 11.  New Jersey:  L10 Duty Act.

“An Act for laying a Duty on Negro, Indian and Mulatto Slaves, imported and brought into this Province.”

“Be it Enacted ..., That every Person or Persons that shall hereafter Import or bring in, or cause to be imported or brought into this Province, any Negro Indian or Mulatto Slave or Slaves, every such Person or Persons so importing or bringing in, or causing to be imported or brought in, such Slave or Slaves, shall enter with one of the Collectors of her Majestie’s Customs of this Province, every such Slave or Slaves, within Twenty Four Hours after such Slave or Slaves is so Imported, and pay the Sum of Ten Pounds Money as appointed by her Majesty’s Proclamation, for each Slave so imported, or give sufficient Security that the said Sum of Ten Pounds, Money aforesaid, shall be well and truly paid within three Months after such Slave or Slaves are so imported, to the Collector or his Deputy of the District into which such Slave or Slaves shall be imported, for the use of her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, toward the Support of the Government of this Province.”  For seven years; violations incur forfeiture and sale of slaves at auction; slaves brought from elsewhere than Africa to pay L10, etc. Laws and Acts of New Jersey, 1703-1717 (ed. 1717), p. 43; N.J.  Archives, 1st Series, XIII. 516, 517, 520, 522, 523, 527, 532, 541.

1713, March 26.  Great Britain and Spain:  The Assiento.

“The Assiento, or Contract for allowing to the Subjects of Great Britain the Liberty of importing Negroes into the Spanish America.  Signed by the Catholick King at Madrid, the 26th Day of March, 1713.”

Art.  I.  “First then to procure, by this means, a mutual and reciprocal advantage to the sovereigns and subjects of both crowns, her British majesty does offer and undertake for the persons, whom she shall name and appoint, That they shall oblige and charge themselves with the bringing into the West-Indies of America, belonging to his catholick majesty, in the space of the said 30 years, to commence on the