§ 7. If the master neglect to enter the slaves, he shall forfeit £8 for each Negro, one-half to go to the informer and one-half to the government.
§ 8. If any Negro imported shall, within twelve months, be exported and sold in any other plantation, and a receipt from the collector there be shown, a drawback of the whole duty will be allowed. Like drawback will be allowed a purchaser, if any Negro sold die within six weeks after importation. _Mass. Province Laws, 1705-6_, ch. 10.
~1708, February. Rhode Island: £3 Duty Act.~
No title or text found. Slightly amended by Act of April, 1708; strengthened by Acts of February, 1712, and July 5, 1715; proceeds disposed of by Acts of July, 1715, October, 1717, and June, 1729. _Colonial Records_, IV. 34, 131-5, 138, 143, 191-3, 225, 423-4.
"An Act for Laying a Duty on the Tonnage of Vessels and Slaves." A duty of £3 was laid on slaves not imported directly from their native country. Continued by Act of Oct. 30, 1710. _Acts of Assembly, 1691-1718_, pp. 97, 125, 134; Laws of New York, 1691-1773, p. 83.
~1710, Dec. 28. Pennsylvania: 40s. Duty Act.~
"An impost Act, laying a duty on Negroes, wine, rum and other spirits, cyder and vessels." Repealed by order in Council Feb. 20, 1713. Carey and Bioren, _Laws_, I. 82; Bettle, _Notices of Negro Slavery_, in _Penn. Hist. Soc. Mem._ (1864), I. 415.
"Intended to discourage the importation" of slaves. Title and text not found. Disallowed (?). _Governor Spotswood to the Lords of Trade_, in _Va. Hist. Soc. Coll._, New Series, I. 52.
~1711, July-Aug. New York: Act of 1709 Strengthened.~
"An Act for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act of General Assembly, Intituled, An Act for Laying a Duty on the Tonnage of Vessels and Slaves." _Acts of Assembly, 1691-1718_, p. 134.
~1711, December. New York: Bill to Increase Duty.~
Bill for laying a further duty on slaves. Passed Assembly; lost in Council. _Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York_, V. 293.
~1711. Pennsylvania: Testimony of Quakers.~
" ... the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia, on a representation from the Quarterly Meeting of Chester, that the buying and encouraging the importation of negroes was still practised by some of the members of the society, again repeated and enforced the observance of the advice issued in 1696, and further directed all merchants and factors to write to their correspondents and discourage their sending any more negroes." Bettle, _Notices of Negro Slavery_, in _Penn. Hist. Soc. Mem._ (1864), I. 386.