“Be it therefore enacted That all such Spanish negroes, Indians, mustees, or mulattoes, so imported into this Province, shall pay unto the Publick Receiver, for the use of this Province, a duty of one hundred and fifty pounds, current money of this Province.”

Sec. 19.  Rebate of three-fourths of the duty allowed in case of re-exportation in six months.

Sec. 31.  Act of 1721 repealed.

Sec. 36.  This act to continue in force for three years, and thence to the end of the next session of the General Assembly, and no longer.  Cooper, Statutes, III. 193.

1722, May 12.  Pennsylvania:  Duty Act.

“An Act for laying a duty on Negroes imported into this province.”  Carey and Bioren, Laws, I. 165.

1723, May.  Virginia:  Duty Act.

“An Act for laying a Duty on Liquors and Slaves.”  Title only; repealed by proclamation Oct. 27, 1724.  Hening, Statutes, IV. 118.

1723, June 18.  Rhode Island:  Back Duties Collected.

Resolve appointing the attorney-general to collect back duties on
Negroes. Colonial Records, IV. 330.

1726, March 5.  Pennsylvania:  L10 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:  L2 and L4 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.

1728, Sept. 14.  Massachusetts:  Act of 1705 Strengthened.

“An Act more effectually to secure the Duty on the Importation of Negroes.”  For seven years; substantially the same law re-enacted Jan. 26, 1738, for ten years. Mass.  Province Laws, 1728-9, ch. 16; 1738-9, ch. 27.

1729, May 10.  Pennsylvania:  40s.  Duty Act.

“An Act for laying a Duty on Negroes imported into this Province.” Laws of Pennsylvania (ed. 1742), p. 354, ch. 287.

1732, May.  Rhode Island:  Repeal of Act of 1712.