68 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75.

Liber A. M.

Enemy or Enemies Pyrate or Pyrates or Robbers as well
by Sea as Land and to Vanquish and take them and being
so taken to put them to Death by the Law of War or to
save them at their pleasure and to do all and every thing
which unto the Charge and Office of a Captain General
of an Army or Admiral of a Fleet belongeth and likewise
in Case of any Rebellion Tumult or sedition either upon
Land within the said Province and Dominions or upon the
Seas to exercise martial Law against all Rebellous mutinous
and seditious persons of those parts who shall Refuse to
submit themselves to his Lordships Government or to serve in
the wars or shall fly to the Enemy or forsake their Ensigns
and be Loyterers or Straglers or otherwise howsoever offend-
ing against the Law Custom or discipline military as freely and
in as ample manner and form as any Cap^t General of an Army
or Admiral of a Navy by virtue of his Office might according
to the Laws of the said- Province do the same and further the
said Lieu^t doth Grant unto the said Deputies or any two or
three of them of which the said Chancellor or William Calvert
(if either of them shall be living and present in the said Prov-
ince as aforesaid) to be one full Power and Authority during
the Continuance of the Authorities hereby Granted for and in
the name of the said Lord and Proprietary as they shall think
fitting from time to time to pardon Remit or Release whether,
before Iudgment or After all Offences against the laws of the
said Province and Dominions or any of them and also all and
all manner of Corporal Pains and penalties incurred or to be
incurred by any person or persons for or by Reason of any
Crime or Crimes Offence or Offences Committed or to be
Committed against any the Laws Ordinances or Orders of the
said Province so as no such Pardon Remission or Release do

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not or shall not extend or to be Construed to extend any
ways to pardon Remit or Release any forfeiture or forfeitures
incurred or to be incurred accruing or to be Accrued unto his
said Lordship for or by Reason of any such Crime or Crimes
Offence or Offences us aforesaid with full power and Authority
also in the name of his said Lordship to make Ordain and
publish such wholesom reasonable and profitable Ordinances
Edicts and Proclamations within the said Province and Do-
minions for the better Government of the People there in-
habiting and with such Reasonable pains and Penalties to be
therein expressed as he the said Lieutenant might do if he was
then and there personally present and also full power and
Authority to direct and Appoint for and in the name of his
said Lordship to pass under his said Lordships Great Seal of
his said Province such Grant and Grants of such proportion
and proportions of Land within the said Province to such