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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870

Note 20 — Chapter II

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This duty avoided the letter of the English instructions by making the duty payable by the first purchasers, and not by the importers. Cf. Cooper, Statutes, IV. 187.

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