nnee 1810, inclusivement,
precedes de notes sur le decouverte de l'ile sur l'occupation
hollandaise_; Henri Prentout, _L'ile de France sous Decaen_, 1803-1810
(Paris, 1901); Patrick Beaton, _Creoles and Coolies_ (London, 1858);
Nicholas Pike, _Subtropical Rambles in the Land of the Aphanapteryx_
(New York, 1873); and _An Account of the Island of Mauritius and its
Dependencies by a Late Official Resident_.

[2] _Adrian d'Espinay Renseignments_, etc., 112-113; _An Account of
the Island of Mauritius_, 19.

[3] Grant, _History of Mauritius_, 74.

[4] Grant, _History of Mauritius_, 74-75.

[5] Grant, _History of Mauritius_, p. 75, 1801.

[6] Pridham, _England's Colonial Empire_, I, 160.

[7] Beaton, _Creoles and Coolies_, 94-111; _An Account of the Island
of Mauritius and its Dependencies by a Late Official Resident_, p. 19;
Adrien d'Epinay, _Renseignments_, etc., pp. 112-113.

[8] Henri Prentout, _L'ile de France sous DeCaen_, 126.

[9] Pridham, p. 154.

[10] _Ibid._, p. 156.

[11] Pridham, p. 157.

[12] Pridham, pp. 164, 165.

[13] Bernardin de St. Pierre, _A Voyage_, etc., pp. 100-105.

[14] Pridham, p. 161.

[15] _Ibid._, pp. 175-175.

DOCUMENTS

LETTERS COLLECTED BY R. E. PARK AND BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

This is an extract from the publications of the Southern History
Association, Spangenberg's Journal of Travels in North Carolina,
1752.[1]

Whoever comes to North Carolina must prepare to pay a poll tax.
Poll tax is required from all white men, master or servant, from
16 years of age and on; all Negroes and Negresses pay poll tax
from their twelfth year. Whoever marries a Negro, or Indian, a
mixed blood--his children are liable to the fourth degree from
the twelfth year on, and the female Indian or Negro is also
taxable. Should this tax not be paid to the sheriff--by whom it
is demanded, he is empowered to sell anything belonging to the
delinquent party, he can seize at public vendue, and after
keeping enough to pay his own fees and satisfy the tax he returns
the remainder to the party.

When anyone wishes to marry he must go to the clerk of his county
and deposit a Bond for fifty pounds, as assurance that there is
no obstacle or impediment to his marying.

He then receives a certificate which he presents to the Justice,
who gives him his license: he may then get married. The fees are
20 shillings for t