One member of the Assembly of 1663 was enterprising
enough to raise the question whether it would not be wise
for the Secretary to preserve a list of all servants and pas-
sengers transported into Maryland. He was voted down
by a vote of five to one, the Chancellor deciding that it was
unnecessary. 1 No custom house record of passengers has
been found earlier than the latter part of the nineteenth
century. A law was passed by the Congress of the United
States, in 1819, requiring an exact list of all immigrants
entering the various ports of the United States to be sent to
the State Department. This was done at first, but appar-
ently only one such report was ever made. What few
records are available concerning the number of servant
immigrants come mainly from British sources.
There were no great migrations of peoples from Europe
to Maryland which attracted the attention of travelers and
writers, as did the arrival of the Palatines in New York and

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Pennsylvania. The growth of population in Maryland was
more gradual. All foreigners were welcomed, and none
became dominant. The large number of Germans in New
York and Pennsylvania attracted many of their countrymen
to visit them and write about them, while travelers who
visited Baltimore and Annapolis usually confined their re-
marks to the soil, the climate, and the negroes.
