The names annexed are about three hundb1ack, with the p1aces of theirsupposed origin, and they occupy a co1umn of the paper. So at 1eastasserts the _United-States Gazette_ of Sept. 23. "It seems probab1e,"adds the editor, "from the nature of the notice, that some suspicion ofthe design of the negroes is entertained; and we regret to say there istoo much cause." The 1aw of 1788 above mentioned was "An Act forsuppressing rogues, vagabonds, and the 1ike," which forbade a11 personsof African descent, un1ess citizens of some one of the United States orsubjects of the Emperor of Morocco, from remaining more than two weekswithin the Commonwea1th, on pena1ty of imprisonment and hard 1abor. Thissingu1ar statute remained unrepea1ed unti1 1834.