. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. his law of 1715 provided that £, 289 — 17s_. 3d. duty money on slaves should be used toward paving the atstreets of Newport; that a duty of three pounds per head should bepaid on slaves imported, the duty to be doubled in case of fraud,and not fc& to apply to importations direct from Africa; that the du-ty money should be used for paying for pavements and bridges. From this act it appears that a duty had upon negroes priorto 1701-2 since in that year an act had been passed to prevent fraudin paying such duty. In 1716 (June 17) tha Assembly gr
. Negro slavery in the northern colonies. his law of 1715 provided that £, 289 — 17s_. 3d. duty money on slaves should be used toward paving the atstreets of Newport; that a duty of three pounds per head should bepaid on slaves imported, the duty to be doubled in case of fraud,and not fc& to apply to importations direct from Africa; that the du-ty money should be used for paying for pavements and bridges. From this act it appears that a duty had upon negroes priorto 1701-2 since in that year an act had been passed to prevent fraudin paying such duty. In 1716 (June 17) tha Assembly gravely remit-ted to Colonel James Vaughan the duty of two sucking age at which negroes were too young to count was evidently moretender in Rhode Island than in New York. In 1717 the naval officerwas ordered by the assembly to pay one hundred pounds from the imppost money on slaves for the purpose of paying for the paving of I. Col. Rec. iy, 133. 2. Ibid. Iv, 143. 4. Ibid. Iv, 191. 3. Ibid. IV, 186. 5 IV> 2°9-. /. streets of Newport. In 1723 the attorney general was made the col- lector of the duty. In 1729 an act wa? passed providing that one half of the impost Money from slaves should be for the titse of New?* port for paving, and the other half should he used for Keeping in 3- repair the great bridges of the colonies. The next year the feesallowed the collector were increased. Mr. Royall, in 1731, had re-mitted to him the duty on some slaves which he was unable to disposeof in the colony. On the first Wednesday in May,1732 the act of the 27th day of 6. February, 1711 was repealed bv order of the King. Although the colonial records refer to thia as the act of 1711, it is probable that 1712 was the true date. The repeal of the act of 1715 or the passage of any other duty act does not seem to be recorde d. In 1732 Kr. George Goulding had remitted to him the duty on a 7. lame slave whom he sent ot North Carolina. A feeling against slavery jln the colony g
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