Sec. 4.  This section on duties to be in force for four years after ratification, and thence to the end of the next session of the General Assembly.  Cooper, Statutes, VII. 368.

1718, Feb. 22.  Pennsylvania:  Duty Act.

“An Act for continuing a duty on Negroes brought into this province.”  Carey and Bioren, Laws, I. 118.

1719, March 20.  South Carolina:  L10 Duty Act.

“An Act for laying an Imposition on Negroes, Liquors, and other Goods and Merchandizes, imported, and exported out of this Province, for the raising of a Fund of Money towards the defraying the Publick Charges and Expences of this Government; as also to Repeal several Duty Acts, and Clauses and Paragraphs of Acts, as is herein mentioned.”  This repeals former duty acts (e.g. that of 1714), and lays a duty of L10 on African slaves, and L30 on American slaves.  Cooper, Statutes, III. 56.

1721, Sept. 21.  South Carolina:  L10 Duty Act.

“An Act for granting to His Majesty a Duty and Imposition on Negroes, Liquors, and other Goods and Merchandize, imported into and exported out of this Province.”  This was a continuation of the Act of 1719. Ibid., III. 159.

1722, Feb. 23.  South Carolina:  L10 Duty Act.

“An Act for Granting to His Majesty a Duty and Imposition on Negroes, Liquors, and other Goods and Merchandizes, for the use of the Publick of this Province.”

Sec. 1. " ... on all negro slaves imported from Africa directly, or any other place whatsoever, Spanish negroes excepted, if above ten years of age, ten pounds; on all negroes under ten years of age, (sucking children excepted) five pounds,” etc.

Sec. 3.  “And whereas, it has proved to the detriment of some of the inhabitants of this Province, who have purchased negroes imported here from the Colonies of America, that they were either transported thence by the Courts of justice, or sent off by private persons for their ill behaviour and misdemeanours, to prevent which for the future,

“Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all negroes imported in this Province from any part of America, after the ratification of this Act, above ten years of age, shall pay unto the Publick Receiver as a duty, the sum of fifty pounds, and all such negroes under the age of ten years, (sucking children excepted) the sum of five pounds of like current money, unless the owner or agent shall produce a testimonial under the hand and seal of any Notary Publick of the Colonies or plantations from whence such negroes came last, before whom it was proved upon oath, that the same are new negroes, and have not been six months on shoar in any part of America,” etc.

Sec. 4.  “And whereas, the importation of Spanish Indians, mustees, negroes, and mulattoes, may be of dangerous consequence by inticing the slaves belonging to the inhabitants of this Province to desert with them to the Spanish settlements near us,