New Jersey. Samuel Allinson, Acts of Assembly, Burlington, 1776; William Paterson, Digest of the Laws, Newark, 1800; William A. Whitehead, editor, Documents relating to the Colonial History of New Jersey, Newark, 1880-93; Joseph Bloomfield, Laws of New Jersey, Trenton, 1811; New Jersey Archives.

New York. Acts of Assembly, 1691-1718, London, 1719; E.B.  O’Callaghan, Documentary History of New York, 4 vols., Albany, 1849-51; E.B.  O’Callaghan, editor, Documents relating to the Colonial History of New York, 12 vols., Albany, 1856-77; Laws of New York, 1752-1762, New York, 1762; Laws of New York, 1777-1801, 5 vols., republished at Albany, 1886-7.

North Carolina. F.X.  Martin, Iredell’s Public Acts of Assembly, Newbern, 1804; Laws, revision of 1819, 2 vols., Raleigh, 1821; North Carolina Colonial Records, edited by William L. Saunders, Raleigh, 1886-90.

Pennsylvania. Acts of Assembly, Philadelphia, 1782; Charter and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1879; M. Carey and J. Bioren, Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1802, 6 vols., Philadelphia, 1803; A.J.  Dallas, Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1781, Philadelphia, 1797; Ibid., 1781-1790, Philadelphia, 1793; Collection of all the Laws now in force, 1742; Pennsylvania Archives; Pennsylvania Colonial Records.

Rhode Island. John Russell Bartlett, Index to the Printed Acts and Resolves, of ... the General Assembly, 1756-1850, Providence, 1856; Elisha R. Potter, Reports and Documents upon Public Schools, etc., Providence, 1855; Rhode Island Colonial Records.

South Carolina. J.F.  Grimke, Public Laws, Philadelphia, 1790; Thomas Cooper and D.J.  McCord, Statutes at Large, 10 vols., Columbia, 1836-41.

Vermont. Statutes of Vermont, Windsor, 1787; Vermont State Papers, Middlebury, 1823.

Virginia. John Mercer, Abridgement of the Acts of Assembly, Glasgow, 1759; Acts of Assembly, Williamsburg, 1769:  Collection of Public Acts ... passed since 1768, Richmond, 1785; Collections of the Virginia Historical Society; W.W.  Hening, Statutes at Large, 13 vols., Richmond, etc., 1819-23; Samuel Shepherd, Statutes at Large, New Series (continuation of Hening), 3 vols, Richmond, 1835-6.

UNITED STATES DOCUMENTS.

1789-1836. American State Papers—­Class I., Foreign Relations, Vols.  III. and IV. (Reprint of Foreign Relations, 1789-1828.) Class VI., Naval Affairs. (Well indexed.)

1794, Feb. 11. Report of Committee on the Slave Trade. Amer.  State Papers, Miscellaneous, I. No. 44.

1806, Feb. 17. Report of the Committee appointed on the seventh instant, to inquire whether any, and if any, what Additional Provisions are necessary to Prevent the Importation of Slaves into the Territories of the United States. House Reports, 9 Cong. 1 sess.  II.

1817, Feb. 11. Joint Resolution for abolishing the traffick in Slaves, and the Colinization [sic] of the Free People Of Colour of the United States. House Doc., 14 Cong. 2 sess.  II.  No. 77.