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~1858.~ ~Wanderer,~ lands 500 slaves in Georgia. _Senate Exec. Doc._, 35 Cong. 2 sess. VII. No. 8; _House Exec. Doc._, 35 Cong. 2 sess. IX. No.
89.
~1859, Dec. 20.~ ~Delicia,~ supposed to be Spanish, but without papers; captured by a United States ship. The United States courts declared her beyond their jurisdiction. _House Exec. Doc._, 36 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No.
7, p. 434.
~1860.~ ~Erie,~ with 897 Africans, captured by a United States ship.
_Senate Exec. Doc._, 36 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 1, pp. 41-4.
~1860.~ ~William,~ with 550 slaves, ~Wildfire,~ with 507, captured on the coast of Cuba. _Senate Journal_, 36 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 478-80, 492, 543, etc.; _Senate Exec. Doc._, 36 Cong. 1 sess. XI. No. 44; _House Exec. Doc._, 36 Cong. 1 sess. XII. No. 83; 36 Cong. 2 sess. V. No. 11; _House Reports_, 36 Cong. 1 sess. IV. No. 602.
~1861.~ ~Augusta,~ slaver, which, in spite of the efforts of the officials, started on her voyage. _Senate Exec Doc._, 37 Cong. 2 sess.
V. No. 40; _New York Tribune_, Nov. 26, 1861.
~1861.~ ~Storm King,~ of Baltimore, lands 650 slaves in Cuba. _Senate Exec. Doc._, 38 Cong. 1 sess. No. 56, p. 3.
~1862.~ ~Ocilla,~ of Mystic, Connecticut, lands slaves in Cuba. _Ibid._, pp. 8-13.
~1864.~ ~Huntress,~ of New York, under the American flag, lands slaves in Cuba. _Ibid._, pp. 19-21.
APPENDIX D.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
~COLONIAL LAWS.~
[The Library of Harvard College, the Boston Public Library, and the Charlemagne Tower Collection at Philadelphia are especially rich in Colonial Laws.]
~Alabama and Mississippi Territory.~ Acts of the a.s.sembly of Alabama, 1822, etc.; J.J. Ormond, Code of Alabama, Montgomery, 1852; H. Toulmin, Digest of the Laws of Alabama, Cahawba, 1823; A. Hutchinson, Code of Mississippi, Jackson, 1848; Statutes of Mississippi etc., digested, Natchez, 1816 and 1823.
~Connecticut.~ Acts and Laws of Connecticut, New London, 1784 [-1794], and Hartford, 1796; Connecticut Colonial Records; The General Laws and Liberties of Connecticut Colonie, Cambridge, 1673, reprinted at Hartford in 1865; Statute Laws of Connecticut, Hartford, 1821.
~Delaware.~ Laws of Delaware, 1700-1797, 2 vols., New Castle, 1797.
~Georgia.~ George W.J. De Renne, editor, Colonial Acts of Georgia, Wormsloe, 1881; Const.i.tution of Georgia; T.R.R. Cobb, Digest of the Laws, Athens, Ga., 1851; Horatio Marbury and W.H. Crawford, Digest of the Laws, Savannah, 1802; Oliver H. Prince, Digest of the Laws, 2d edition, Athens, Ga., 1837.
~Maryland.~ James Bisset, Abridgment of the Acts of a.s.sembly, Philadelphia, 1759; Acts of Maryland, 1753-1768, Annapolis, 1754 [-1768]; Compleat Collection of the Laws of Maryland, Annapolis, 1727; Thomas Bacon, Laws of Maryland at Large, Annapolis, 1765; Laws of Maryland since 1763, Annapolis, 1787, year 1771; Clement Dorsey, General Public Statutory Law, etc., 1692-1837, 3 vols., Baltimore, 1840.
~Ma.s.sachusetts.~ Acts and Laws of His Majesty’s Province of the Ma.s.sachusetts-Bay in New-England, Boston, 1726; Acts and Resolves … of the Province of the Ma.s.sachusetts Bay, 1692-1780 [Ma.s.sachusetts Province Laws]; Colonial Laws of Ma.s.sachusetts, reprinted from the editions of 1660 and 1672, Boston, 1887, 1890; General Court Records; Ma.s.sachusetts Archives; Ma.s.sachusetts Historical Society Collections; Perpetual Laws of Ma.s.sachusetts, 1780-1789, Boston, 1789; Plymouth Colony Records; Records of the Governor and Company of the Ma.s.sachusetts Bay.
~New Jersey.~ Samuel Allinson, Acts of a.s.sembly, Burlington, 1776; William Paterson, Digest of the Laws, Newark, 1800; William A.
Whitehead, editor, Doc.u.ments relating to the Colonial History of New Jersey, Newark, 1880-93; Joseph Bloomfield, Laws of New Jersey, Trenton, 1811; New Jersey Archives.
~New York.~ Acts of a.s.sembly, 1691-1718, London, 1719; E.B. O’Callaghan, Doc.u.mentary History of New York, 4 vols., Albany, 1849-51; E.B.
O’Callaghan, editor, Doc.u.ments relating to the Colonial History of New York, 12 vols., Albany, 1856-77; Laws of New York, 1752-1762, New York, 1762; Laws of New York, 1777-1801, 5 vols., republished at Albany, 1886-7.
~North Carolina.~ F.X. Martin, Iredell’s Public Acts of a.s.sembly, Newbern, 1804; Laws, revision of 1819, 2 vols., Raleigh, 1821; North Carolina Colonial Records, edited by William L. Saunders, Raleigh, 1886-90.
~Pennsylvania.~ Acts of a.s.sembly, Philadelphia, 1782; Charter and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1879; M. Carey and J.
Bioren, Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1802, 6 vols., Philadelphia, 1803; A.J. Dallas, Laws of Pennsylvania, 1700-1781, Philadelphia, 1797; _Ibid._, 1781-1790, Philadelphia, 1793; Collection of all the Laws now in force, 1742; Pennsylvania Archives; Pennsylvania Colonial Records.
~Rhode Island.~ John Russell Bartlett, Index to the Printed Acts and Resolves, of … the General a.s.sembly, 1756-1850, Providence, 1856; Elisha R. Potter, Reports and Doc.u.ments upon Public Schools, etc., Providence, 1855; Rhode Island Colonial Records.
~South Carolina.~ J.F. Grimke, Public Laws, Philadelphia, 1790; Thomas Cooper and D.J. McCord, Statutes at Large, 10 vols., Columbia, 1836-41.
~Vermont.~ Statutes of Vermont, Windsor, 1787; Vermont State Papers, Middlebury, 1823.
~Virginia.~ John Mercer, Abridgement of the Acts of a.s.sembly, Glasgow, 1759; Acts of a.s.sembly, Williamsburg, 1769: Collection of Public Acts … pa.s.sed since 1768, Richmond, 1785; Collections of the Virginia Historical Society; W.W. Hening, Statutes at Large, 13 vols., Richmond, etc., 1819-23; Samuel Shepherd, Statutes at Large, New Series (continuation of Hening), 3 vols, Richmond, 1835-6.
~UNITED STATES DOc.u.mENTS.~
~1789-1836.~ American State Papers–Cla.s.s I., _Foreign Relations_, Vols.
III. and IV. (Reprint of Foreign Relations, 1789-1828.) Cla.s.s VI., _Naval Affairs_. (Well indexed.)
~1794, Feb. 11.~ Report of Committee on the Slave Trade. _Amer. State Papers, Miscellaneous_, I. No. 44.
~1806, Feb. 17.~ Report of the Committee appointed on the seventh instant, to inquire whether any, and if any, what Additional Provisions are necessary to Prevent the Importation of Slaves into the Territories of the United States. _House Reports_, 9 Cong. 1 sess. II.
~1817, Feb. 11.~ Joint Resolution for abolishing the traffick in Slaves, and the Colinization [_sic_] of the Free People Of Colour of the United States. _House Doc._, 14 Cong. 2 sess. II. No. 77.
~1817, Dec. 15.~ Message from the President … communicating Information of the Proceeding of certain Persons who took Possession of Amelia Island and of Galvezton, [_sic_] during the Summer of the Present Year, and made Establishments there. _House Doc._, 15 Cong. 1 sess. II.
No. 12. (Contains much evidence of illicit traffic.)
~1818, Jan. 10.~ Report of the Committee to whom was referred so much of the President’s Message as relates to the introduction of Slaves from Amelia Island. _House Doc._, 15 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 46 (cf. _House Reports_, 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348).
~1818, Jan. 13.~ Message from the President … communicating information of the Troops of the United States having taken possession of Amelia Island, in East Florida. _House Doc._, 15 Cong. 1 sess. III.
No. 47. (Contains correspondence.)
~1819, Jan. 12.~ Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting copies of the instructions which have been issued to Naval Commanders, upon the subject of the Importation of Slaves, etc. _House Doc._, 15 Cong. 2 sess. IV. No. 84.
~1819, Jan. 19.~ Extracts from Doc.u.ments in the Departments of State, of the Treasury, and of the Navy, in relation to the Illicit Introduction of Slaves into the United States. _House Doc._, 15 Cong. 2 sess. VI. No.
100.
~1819, Jan. 21.~ Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury … in relation to Ships engaged in the Slave Trade, which have been Seized and Condemned, and the Disposition which has been made of the Negroes, by the several State Governments, under whose Jurisdiction they have fallen. _House Doc._, 15 Cong. 2 sess. VI. No. 107.