"An Act for laying an additional duty upon all Negroes hereafter to be imported into this Province, for the time therein mentioned, to be paid by the first purchasers of such Negroes." Cooper, _Statutes_, IV 187. ~1766, November. Virginia: Proposed Duty Act.~ "An act for laying an additional duty upon slaves imported into this colony." Sec. 1. " ... from and after the passing of this act there shall be levied and paid ... for all slaves imported or brought into this colony for sale, either by land or water from any port or place whatsoever, by the buyer or purchaser, after the rate of ten per centum on the amount of each respective purchase over and above the several duties already laid upon slaves imported or brought into this colony as aforesaid," etc. To be suspended until the king's consent is given, and then to continue seven years. The same act was passed again in 1769. Hening, _Statutes_, VIII. 237, 337. ~1766. Rhode Island: Restrictive Measure (?).~ Title and text not found. Cf. _Digest_ of 1798, under "Slave Trade;" _Public Laws of Rhode Island_ (revision of 1822), p. 441. ~1768, Feb. 20. Pennsylvania: Re-enactment of Acts of 1761.~ Titles only found. Dallas, _Laws_, I. 490; _Colonial Records_ (1852), IX. 472, 637, 641. ~1769, Nov. 16. New Jersey: L15 Duty Act.~ "An Act for laying a Duty on the Purchasers of Slaves imported into this Colony." "Whereas Duties on the Importation of Negroes in several of the neighbouring Colonies hath, on Experience, been found beneficial in the Introduction of sober, industrious Foreigners, to settle under His Majesty's Allegiance, and the promoting a Spirit of Industry among the Inhabitants in general: _In order therefore_ to promote the same good Designs in this Government, and that such as choose to purchase Slaves may contribute some equitable Proportion of the publick Burdens," etc. A duty of "_Fifteen Pounds_, Proclamation Money, is laid." _Acts of Assembly_ (Allinson, 1776), p. 315. ~1769 (circa). Connecticut: Importation Prohibited (?).~ Title and text not found. "Whereas, the increase of slaves is injurious to the poor, and inconvenient, therefore," etc. Fowler, _Historical Status of the Negro in Connecticut_, in _Local Law_, etc., p. 125. ~1770. Rhode Island: Bill to Prohibit Importation.~ Bill to prohibit importation of slaves fails. Arnold, _History of Rhode Island_ (1859), II. 304, 321, 337. ~1771, April 12. Massachusetts: Bill to Prevent Importation.~ Bill passes both houses and fails of Governor Hutchinson's assent. _House Journal_, pp. 211, 215, 219, 228, 234, 236, 240, 242-3. ~1771. Maryland: Additional L5 Duty Act.~ "An Act for imposing a further additional duty of five pounds current money per poll on all negroes imported into this province." For seven years. _Laws of Maryland since 1763_: 1771, ch. vii.; cf. 1773, sess. Nov.-Dec., ch. xiv. ~1772, April 1. Virginia: Address to the King.~