Pennsylvania, also, June 7, 1712, voted to levy a duty of £20 on all negroes and Indians brought into the colony by land or water, certain negroes from the West Indies excepted. Exception was also made in the case of negro and Indian slaves brought in by their owners with the intention of taking them out again within the space of twenty days, and in the case of Indians or negroes belonging to persons in the province and sent out of it on their masters’ business with intent to return again.[849] A duty of £10 was levied by New Jersey in 1713.[850] In January, 1739, the New Jersey assembly presented to the council for concurrence a bill entitled “An act for laying a duty on negro, Indian and mulatto slaves imported into this province.”[851] The bill did not appeal favorably to the council and was rejected.[852] The reason for rejection was the need of laborers in the province, owing to the decrease in the number of white indentured servants, and the check that this bill would give to the importation of negroes.[853] But in November, 1769, a bill setting forth as its purpose the encouragement of the coming of white servants by limiting the importation of blacks, was passed. The duty in this case was higher than that proposed in 1739, being £15 on all slaves imported, negro, Indian or mulatto. Punishment for refusal or neglect to pay was specified. Purchase of a slave “made upon the Water or Waters along the Seacoast” of the province, or on those between the province and the provinces of New York, Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties of the Delaware, was, by section VII of the act, declared a “purchase within the county” of New Jersey “opposite to such Water”, and so was exempt from duty.[854]