1717, " " additional duty of 40_s._ (?).
1754, " " " " 10_s._, total 50_s._
1756, " " " " 20_s._ " 40_s._ (?).
1763, " " " " £2 " £4.
1771, " " " " £5 " £9.
1783, Importation prohibited.

[36] _Compleat Coll. Laws of Maryland_ (ed. 1727), p. 191;
Bacon, _Laws of Maryland at Large_, 1728, ch. 8.

[37] Bacon, _Laws_, 1754, ch. 9, 14.

[38] _Ibid._, 1763, ch. 28.

[39] _Laws of Maryland since 1763_: 1771, ch. 7. Cf. _Ibid._:
1777, sess. Feb.-Apr., ch. 18.

[40] _Ibid._: 1783, sess. Apr.-June, ch. 23.

[41] "The last importation of slaves into Maryland was, as I
am credibly informed, in the year 1769": William Eddis,
_Letters from America_ (London, 1792), p. 65, note.

The number of slaves in Maryland has been estimated as follows:--

In 1704, 4,475. _Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York_, V. 605.
" 1710, 7,935. _Ibid._
" 1712, 8,330. Scharf, _History of Maryland_, I. 377.
" 1719, 25,000. _Doc. rel. Col. Hist. New York_, V. 605.
" 1748, 36,000. McMahon, _History of Maryland_, I. 313.