OF MARYLAND

said, or in or upon any Goods or Merchandizes within the PROVINCE aforesaid,
or within the Ports or Harbours of the said PROVINCE, to be laden or
unladen: And WE Will and do, for US, our Heirs and Successors, enjoin
and command that this our Declaration shall, from Time to Time be received
and allowed in all our Courts and Prætorian Judicatories, and before all
the Judges whatsoever of US, our Heirs and Successor, for a sufficient and lawful
Discharge, Payment, and Acquittance thereof, charging all and singular the
Officer and Ministers of US, our Heirs and Successor, and enjoining them,
under our heavy Displeasure, that they do not at any Time presume to attempt
any Thing to the contrary of the Premisses, or that may in any wise
contravene the same, but that they, at all Times, as is fitting, do aid and assist
the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, and his Heirs, and the
aforesaid Inhabitants and Merchants of the PROVINCE of MARYLAND
aforesaid, and their Servants and Ministers, Factors and Assigns, in the fullest
Use and Enjoyment of this our CHARTER.

    XXI. AND FURTHERMORE WE WILL, and by these Presents, for US,
our Heirs and Successors, do grant unto the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE,
his Heirs and Assigns, and to the Freeholders and Inhabitants
of the said PROVINCE, both present and to come, and to every of them, that
the said PROVINCE, and the Freeholders or Inhabitants of the said Colony or
Country, shall not henceforth be held or reputed a Member or Part of the
Land of Virginia, or of any other Colony already transported, or hereafter to
be transported, or be dependent on the same, or subordinate in any kind of
Government, from which WE do separate both the said PROVINCE, and Inhabitants
thereof, and by these Presents do WILL to be distinct, and that
they may be immediately subject to our Crown of England, and dependent on
the same for ever.

    XXII. AND if, peradventure, hereafter it may happen, that any Doubts
or Questions should arise concerning the true Sense and Meaning of any Word,
Clause, or Sentence, contained in this our present CHARTER, WE will,
charge and command, THAT Interpretation to be applied, always, and in
all Things, and in all our Courts and Judicatories whatsoever, to obtain which
shall be judged to be the more beneficial, profitable, and favourable to the
aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns: PROVIDED
always, that no Interpretation thereof be made, whereby GOD's holy
and true Christian Religion, or the Allegiance due to US, our Heirs and
Successors, may in any wise suffer by Change, Prejudice, or Diminution;
although express Mention * be not made in these Presents of the true yearly
Value or Certainty of the Premisses, or any Part thereof, or of other Gifts
and Grants made by US, our Heirs and Predecessors, unto the said now Lord
BALTIMORE, or any Statute, Act, Ordinance, Provision, Proclamation
or Restraint, heretofore had, made, published, ordained or provided, or
any other Thing, Cause, or matter whatsoever, to the contrary thereof in
any wise notwithstanding.

    XXIII. IN WITNESS whereof WE have caused these our letters to be
made patent. WITNESS OURSELF at Westminster, the Twentieth Day
of June, in the Eighth Year of our Reign.

    * The Remainder, from this Mark, is copied from the old Translation, published (together
        with some Assembly Proceedings) by Order of the Lower house, in the Year 1725.