"Liberties of Forreiners & Strangers": 91. "There shall never be any bond slaverie villinage or Captivitie amongst vs, unles it be lawfull Captives taken in iust warres, & such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us. And those shall have all the liberties & Christian usages w^{ch} y^e law of god established in Jsraell concerning such p/^{sons} doeth morally require. This exempts none from servitude who shall be Judged there to by Authoritie." "Capitall Laws": 10. "If any man stealeth aman or mankinde, he shall surely be put to death" (marginal reference, Exodus xxi. 16). Re-enacted in the codes of 1649, 1660, and 1672. Whitmore, _Reprint of Colonial Laws of 1660_, etc. (1889), pp. 52, 54, 71-117. ~1642, April 3. New Netherland: Ten per cent Duty.~ "Ordinance of the Director and Council of New Netherland, imposing certain Import and Export Duties." O'Callaghan, _Laws of New Netherland_ (1868), p. 31. ~1642, Dec. 1. Connecticut: Man-Stealing made a Capital Offence.~ "Capitall Lawes," No. 10. Re-enacted in Ludlow's code, 1650. _Colonial Records_, I. 77. ~1646, Nov. 4. Massachusetts: Declaration against Man-Stealing.~ Testimony of the General Court. For text, see above, page 37. _Colonial Records_, II. 168; III. 84. ~1652, April 4. New Netherland: Duty of 15 Guilders.~ "Conditions and Regulations" of Trade to Africa. O'Callaghan, _Laws of New Netherland_, pp. 81, 127. ~1652, May 18-20. Rhode Island: Perpetual Slavery Prohibited.~ For text, see above, page 40. _Colonial Records_, I. 243. ~1655, Aug. 6. New Netherland: Ten per cent Export Duty.~ "Ordinance of the Director General and Council of New Netherland, imposing a Duty on exported Negroes." O'Callaghan, _Laws of New Netherland_, p. 191. ~1664, March 12. Duke of York's Patent: Slavery Regulated.~ "Lawes establisht by the Authority of his Majesties Letters patents, granted to his Royall Highnes James Duke of Yorke and Albany; Bearing Date the 12th Day of March in the Sixteenth year of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Kinge Charles the Second." First published at Long Island in 1664. "Bond slavery": "No Christian shall be kept in Bond-slavery villenage or Captivity, Except Such who shall be Judged thereunto by Authority, or such as willingly have sould, or shall sell themselves," etc. Apprenticeship allowed. _Charter to William Penn, and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania_ (1879), pp. 3, 12. ~1672, October. Connecticut: Law against Man-Stealing.~ "The General Laws and Liberties of Conecticut "Capital Laws": 10. "If any Man stealeth a Man or Man kinde, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall be put to death. Exod. 21. 16." _Laws of Connecticut_, 1672 (repr. 1865), p. 9. ~1676, March 3. West New Jersey: Slavery Prohibited (?).~ "The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Province of West New-Jersey, in America."