See above, pages 82-83.

1790, March 22.  New York:  Amendment of Act of 1788.

“An Act to amend the act entitled ‘An act concerning slaves.’”

“Whereas many inconveniences have arisen from the prohibiting the exporting of slaves from this State.  Therefore

“Be it enacted ..., That where any slave shall hereafter be convicted of a crime under the degree of a capital offence, in the supreme court, or the court of oyer and terminer, and general gaol delivery, or a court of general sessions of the peace within this State, it shall and may be lawful to and for the master or mistress to cause such slave to be transported out of this State,” etc. Laws of New York, 1789-96 (ed. 1886), p. 151.

1792, May.  Connecticut:  Act of 1788 Strengthened.

“An Act in addition to an Act, entitled ’An Act to prevent the Slave Trade.’”

This provided that persons directly or indirectly aiding or assisting in slave-trading should be fined L100.  All notes, bonds, mortgages, etc., of any kind, made or executed in payment for any slave imported contrary to this act, are declared null and void.  Persons removing from the State might carry away their slaves. Acts and Laws of Connecticut (ed. 1784), pp. 412-3.

1792, Dec. 17.  Virginia:  Revision of Acts.

“An Act to reduce into one, the several acts concerning slaves, free negroes, and mulattoes.”

Sec. 1. “Be it enacted ..., That no persons shall henceforth be slaves within this commonwealth, except such as were so on the seventeenth day of October,” 1785, “and the descendants of the females of them.”

Sec. 2.  “Slaves which shall hereafter be brought into this commonwealth, and kept therein one whole year together, or so long at different times as shall amount to one year, shall be free.”

Sec. 4. “Provided, That nothing in this act contained, shall be construed to extend to those who may incline to remove from any of the United States and become citizens of this, if within sixty days after such removal, he or she shall take the following oath before some justice of the peace of this commonwealth:  ’I, A.B., do swear, that my removal into the state of Virginia, was with no intent of evading the laws for preventing the further importation of slaves, nor have I brought with me any slaves, with an intention of selling them, nor have any of the slaves which I have brought with me, been imported from Africa, or any of the West India islands, since the first day of November,’” 1778, etc.

Sec. 53.  This act to be in force immediately. Statutes at Large of Virginia, New Series, I. 122.

1792, Dec. 21.  South Carolina:  Importation Prohibited until 1795.

“An Act to prohibit the importation of Slaves from Africa, or other places beyond sea, into this State, for two years; and also to prohibit the importation or bringing in Slaves, or Negroes, Mulattoes, Indians, Moors or Mestizoes, bound for a term of years, from any of the United States, by land or by water.”