44-48.] [Footnote 4: The text of the act, which appears never to have been printed, is in the Georgia archives.

For a transcript I am indebted to the Hon.
Philip Cook, Secretary of State of Georgia.] The scale of the importation in the period when Georgia alone permitted them appears to have been small.

For the year 1796, for example, the imports at Savannah were officially reported at 2084, including some who had been brought coastwise from the northward for sale.[5] A foreign traveler who visited Savannah in the period noted that the demand was light because of the dearth of money and credit, that the prices were about three hundred dollars per head, that the carriers were mainly from New England, and that one third of each year's imports were generally smuggled into South Carolina.[6] [Footnote 5: American Historical Association _Report_ for 1903, pp.

459, 460.] [Footnote 6: LaRochefoucauld-Liancourt, _Travels in the United States_ (London, 1799), p.

605.] In the impulse toward the prohibitory acts the humanitarian motive was obvious but not isolated.