~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 £5 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.~
" ... The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa hath long been considered as a trade of great inhumanity, and under its _present encouragement_, we have too much reason to fear _will endanger the very existence_ of your majesty's American dominions....
"Deeply impressed with these sentiments, we most humbly beseech your majesty to _remove all those restraints_ on your majesty's governors of this colony, _which inhibit their assenting to such laws as might check so very pernicious a commerce_." _Journals of the House of Burgesses_, p. 131; quoted in Tucker, _Dissertation on Slavery_ (repr. 1861), p. 43.
~1773, Feb. 26. Pennsylvania: Additional £10 Duty Act.~
"An Act for making perpetual the act ... [of 1761] ... and laying an additional duty on the said slaves." Dallas, _Laws_, I. 671; _Acts of Assembly_ (ed. 1782), p. 149.
~1774, March, June. Massachusetts: Bills to Prohibit Importation.~
Two bills designed to prohibit the importation of slaves fail of the governor's assent. First bill: _General Court Records_, XXX. 248, 264; _Mass. Archives, Domestic Relations, 1643-1774_, IX. 457. Second bill: _General Court Records_, XXX. 308, 322.
~1774, June. Rhode Island: Importation Restricted.~
"An Act prohibiting the importation of Negroes into this Colony."