1722, " " " " " " "
1740, " " L100 on Africans, L150 on colonial Negroes.
1751, " " L10 " " L50 " "
1760, Act prohibiting importation (Disallowed).
1764, Duty Act: additional duty of L100.
1783, " " L3 on Africans, L20 on colonial Negroes.
1784, " " " " L5 " "
1787, Art and Ordinance prohibiting importation.

[9] Cf. Hewatt, _Historical Account of S. Carolina and
Georgia_ (1779), I. 120 ff.; reprinted in _S.C. Hist. Coll._
(1836), I. 108 ff.

[10] Cooper, _Statutes at Large of S. Carolina_, II. 153.

[11] The text of the first act is not extant: cf. Cooper,
_Statutes_, III. 56. For the second, see Cooper, VII. 365,
367.

[12] Cf. Grimke, _Public Laws of S. Carolina_, p. xvi, No.
362; Cooper, _Statutes_, II. 649. Cf. also _Governor Johnson
to the Board of Trade_, Jan. 12, 1719-20; reprinted in Rivers,
_Early History of S. Carolina_ (1874), App., xii.

[13] Cooper, _Statutes_, VII. 368.

[14] _Ibid._, III. 56.

[15] From a memorial signed by the governor, President of the
Council, and Speaker of the House, dated April 9, 1734,
printed in Hewatt, _Historical Account of S. Carolina and
Georgia_ (1779), II. 39; reprinted in S.C. Hist. Coll. (1836),
I. 305-6. Cf. _N.C. Col. Rec._, II. 421.

[16] Cooper, _Statutes_, III. 556; Grimke, _Public Laws_, p.
xxxi, No. 694. Cf. Ramsay, _History of S. Carolina_, I. 110.

[17] Cooper, _Statutes_, III. 739.

[18] The text of this law has not been found. Cf. Burge,
_Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws_, I. 737, note;
Stevens, _History of Georgia_, I. 286. See instructions of the
governor of New Hampshire, June 30, 1761, in Gordon, _History
of the American Revolution_, I. letter 2.

[19] Cooper, _Statutes_, IV. 187.

[20] This duty avoided the letter of the English instructions
by making the duty payable by the first purchasers, and not by
the importers. Cf. Cooper, _Statutes_, IV. 187.

[21] Grimke, Public Laws, p. lxviii, Nos. 1485, 1486; Cooper,
_Statutes_, VII. 430.

[22] Cf. _N.C. Col. Rec._, IV. 172.

[23] Martin, _Iredell's Acts of Assembly_, I. 413, 492.

[24] The following is a summary of the legislation of the
colony of Virginia; details will