"An Act to alter and amend the several Acts respecting the importation or bringing into this State, from beyond seas, or elsewhere, Negroes and other persons of colour; and for other purposes therein mentioned." Sec. 1. Acts of 1792, 1794, 1796, 1798, 1800, 1802, hereby repealed. Sec. 2. Importation of Negroes from the West Indies prohibited. Sec. 3. No Negro over fifteen years of age to be imported from the United States except under certificate of good character. Sec. 5. Negroes illegally imported to be forfeited and sold, etc. Cooper, _Statutes_, VII. 449. ~1804.~ [~Denmark.~ Act of 1792 abolishing the slave-trade goes into effect.] ~1804, Feb. 14. Congress (House): Proposed Censure of South Carolina.~ Representative Moore of South Carolina offered the following resolution, as a substitute to Mr. Bard's taxing proposition of Jan. 6:-- "_Resolved_, That this House receive with painful sensibility information that one of the Southern States, by a repeal of certain prohibitory laws, have permitted a traffic unjust in its nature, and highly impolitic in free Governments." Ruled out of order by the chairman of the Committee of the Whole. _Annals of Cong._, 8 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1004. ~1804, Feb. 15. Congress (House): Proposed Duty.~ "_Resolved_, That a tax of ten dollars be imposed on every slave imported into any part of the United States." "_Ordered_, That a bill, or bills, be brought in, pursuant to the said resolution," etc. Feb. 16 "a bill laying a duty on slaves imported into the United States" was read, but was never considered. _House Journal_ (repr. 1826), 8 Cong. 1 sess. IV 523, 578, 580, 581-2, 585; _Annals of Cong._, 8 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 820, 876, 991, 1012, 1020, 1024-36. ~1804, March 26. United States Statute: Slave-Trade Limited.~ "An Act erecting Louisiana into two territories," etc. Acts of 1794 and 1803 extended to Louisiana. _Statutes at Large_, II. 283. For proceedings in Congress, see _Annals of Cong._, 8 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 106, 211, 223, 231, 233-4, 238, 255, 1038, 1054-68, 1069-79, 1128-30, 1185-9. ~1805, Feb. 15. Massachusetts: Proposed Amendment.~ "_Resolve requesting the Governor to transmit to the Senators and Representatives in Congress, and the Executives of the several States this Resolution, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, respecting Slaves._" June 8, Governor's message; Connecticut answers that it is inexpedient; Maryland opposes the proposition. _Massachusetts Resolves_, February, 1805, p. 55; June, 1805, p. 18. See below, March 3, 1805. ~1805, March 2. United States Statute: Slave-Trade to Orleans Territory Permitted.~ "An Act further providing for the government of the territory of Orleans." Sec. 1. A territorial government erected similar to Mississippi, with same rights and privileges. Sec. 5. 6th Article of Ordinance of 1787, on slaves, not to extend to this territory.