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Statute Act Ordinance or provision to the Contrary thereof Not-
withstanding
And further our pleasure is and by these presents for us our heirs
and Successors We do Covenant and Grant to and with the said
now Lord Baltimore his heirs and Assigns that we our heirs and
Successors shall at no time hereafter Set or make or cause to be Set
any Imposition Custom or other Taxation Rate or Contribution
whatsoever in or upon the Dwellers and Inhabitants of the aforesaid
Province for their Lands Tenements Goods or Chattels within the
said Province or in or upon any Goods or Merchandizes within the
said Province to be laden or unladen within any the Ports or Harbours
of the said Province And our Pleasure is and for us our heirs and
Successors We Charge and Command that this our Declaration shall
be hence forward from time to time received and allowed in all our
Courts and before all the Judges of us our heirs and Successors for a
Sufficient and lawfull Discharge Payment and Acquittance Com-
manding all and Singular our Officers and Ministers of us our heirs
and Successors and enjoyning them upon pain of our high Dis-
pleasure that they do not presume at any time to Attempt any thing
to the Contrary of the Premisses or that they do in any Sort with-
stand the same but that they be at all times Aiding and Assisting as
is fitting unto the said now Lord Baltimore and his heirs and to the
Inhabitants and Merchants of Maryland aforesaid their Servants

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Sept. 27

Ministers factors and Assigns in the full use and Fruition of the
Benefit of this our Charter
4:^th Resolved that it is the Unanimous Opinion of this House
that the said Charter is Declaratory of the Constitutional Rights and
Privileges of the Freemen of this Province
5:^th Resolved Unanimously That Tryals by Juries is the Grand
Bulwark of Liberty the undoubted Birthright of every Englishman
and Consequently of every British Subject in America and that the
Erecting other Jurisdictions for the Tryal of Matters of fact is
unconstitutional and renders the Subject insecure in his Liberty
and Property
6:^th Resolved That it is the Unanimous Opinion of this House
that it cannot with any truth or Propriety be said that the Freemen
of this Province of Maryland are Represented in the British Parlia-
ment
7:^th Resolved Unanimously that his Majestys liege People of this
Ancient Province have always enjoyed the Right of being Governed
by Laws to which they themselves have consented in the Articles of
Taxes and internal Polity and that the same hath never been for-
feited or any other way Yielded up but hath been Constantly recog-
nized by the King and People of Great Britain
8:^th Resolved that it is the Unanimous Opinion of this House that
the Representatives of the Freemen of this Province in their Legis-

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