[850] Allinson, _Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey_, p. 31. By the terms of the act, the duty was to continue seven years, beginning June 1, 1714. [851] _New Jersey Archives_, first series, xv, p. 30. [852] _Ibid._, first series, xv, p. 351. [853] _Ibid._, first series, xv, pp. 384, 385. [854] Allinson, _Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey_, p. 315. [855] Ballagh, _op. cit._, p. 14. [856] Pennsylvania, January 12, 1706, passed an act for the purpose of meeting government expenses. Negroes were enumerated among the commodities on which duties were laid. No mention was made of Indians. _Pennsylvania Statutes at Large_, ii, p. 280. [857] _New York Colonial Laws_, edition of 1894, i, pp. 484, 487. [858] _Ibid._, i, p. 588. [859] _Ibid._, i, p. 1013. [860] _Ibid._, i, p. 677. On October 11, 1709, the act was amended with regard to its enforcement. _Ibid._, i, p. 736. [861] _Ibid._, i, p. 803. [862] _Ibid._, i, p. 899. [863] _New York Colonial Laws_, edition of 1894, i, p. 1012. [864] _Ibid._, ii, pp. 255, 310. [865] _Ibid._, ii, p. 772. [866] _Ibid._, ii, p. 877. [867] _Ibid._, ii, p. 1048. [868] _Ibid._, ii, p. 1049. [869] _New York Colonial Laws_, edition of 1894, ii, p. 1049. The act also provided technical arrangements for settling disputes regarding the ages of the slaves, the exemption from duty if the slave should die within a period of thirty days after arrival, the receipt issued for such duty by the treasurer, and precautions to prevent smuggling. [870] _Ibid._, iii, p. 2. [871] _Ibid._, iii, p. 32. [872] _Ibid._, iii, p. 88. [873] _Ibid._, iii and iv. New York, like Virginia, sought to avoid the veto of the home government to these laws by giving them a short term of existence, usually one year. And generally New York was more successful than Virginia. But the home government was not always satisfied by such provisions as is witnessed by the Privy Council’s rejection of the act of 1735 levying a duty on negro and Indian slaves, _New York Colonial Documents_, vi, p. 33. [874] _The Statutes at Large of South Carolina_, ii, p. 201. Duties were also levied by the act upon skins and furs. [875] _Indian Book_, 1710–1718, in Columbia, South Carolina, Historical Commission Department, i, p. 19. [876] Hawks, _History of North Carolina_, etc., second edition, ii, p. 229; Brickell, _The Natural History of North Carolina_, etc., p. 42. [877] Hewat, _op. cit._, i, p. 128; Schaper, _Sectionalism in South Carolina_, p. 283. [878] Cotton Mather kept an Indian prisoner to serve as a guide. _Magnalia_, edition of 1820, ii, p. 507. [879] Lyford, _History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the Original Grant_, etc., ii, p. 1051; Goodwin, _The Pilgrim Republic_, p. 191.