CHARTER. 17

BALTIMORE, and his heirs, and in the form which shall seem
best to him or them, and the same to publish under the
seal of the aforesaid now baron of BALTIMORE and his heirs
and duly to execute the same upon all persons, for the time
being, within the aforesaid PROVINCE, and the limits thereof,
or under his or their government and power, in sailing
towards MARYLAND, or thence returning, outward-bound,
either to England, or elsewhere, whether to any other part
of our, or of any foreign dominions, wheresoever estab-
lished, by the imposition of fines, imprisonment, and other
punishment whatsoever; even if it be necessary, and the
guilty of the offence require it, by privation of member, or
life, by him the aforesaid now baron of BALTIMORE, and his
heirs, or by his or their deputy, lieutenant, judges, justices,
magistrates, officers, and ministers, to be constituted and
appointed according to the tenor and true intent of these
presents, and to constitute and ordain judges, justices, mag-
istrates and officers, of what kind, for what cause, and with
what power soever, within that land, and the sea of those
parts, and in such form as to the said now baron of BALTI-
MORE, or his heirs, shall seem most fitting; and also to
remit, release, pardon, and abolish, all crimes and offences
whatsoever against such laws, whether before, or after
judgment passed; and to do all and singular other thing
belonging to the completion of justice, and to courts, preto-
rian judicatories, and tribunals, judicial forms and modes
of proceeding, although express mention thereof in these
presents be not made; and, by judges by them delegated,
to award process, hold pleas, and determine in those courts,
pretorian judicatories, and tribunals, in all actions, suits,
causes and matters whatsoever, as well criminal as personal,
real and mixed, and pretorian: Which said laws, so to be
published as abovesaid, WE will, enjoin, charge, and com-
mand, to be most absolute and firm in law, and to be kept in
those parts by all the subjects and liege-men of us, our heirs,
and successors, so far as they concern them, and to be
inviolably observed under the penalties therein expressed, or
to be expressed. So NEVERTHELESS, that the laws aforesaid
be consonant to reason, and be not repugnant or contrary, but
(so far as conveniently may be) agreeable to the laws, statutes,
customs and rights of this our kingdom of England.

VIII. And forasmuch as, in the government of so great a
PROVINCE, sudden accidents may frequently happen to which
it will be necessary to apply a remedy before the free holders
of he said PROVINCE, their delegates, or deputies, can be
called together for the framing of laws; neither will it be fit that
so great a number of people should immediately on such
emergent occasion, be called together, WE, therefore, for the