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better government of so great a PROVINCE, do will and ordain,
and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do grant
unto the said now baron of Baltimore; and his heirs, by
themselves, or by their magistrates and officers, thereunto
duly to be constituted as aforesaid, may, and can make and
constitute fit and wholesome ordinances from time to time, to
be kept and observed within the PROVINCE aforesaid, as well
for the conservation of the peace, as for the better govern-
ment of the people inhabiting therein, and publicly to notify
the same to all persons whom the same in any wise do or may
effect. Which ordinances, WE will to be inviolably observed
within the said PROVINCE, under the pains to be expressed in
the same. So that the said ordinances be consonant to
reason, and be not repugnant nor contrary, but (so far as con-
veniently may be done) agreeably to the laws, statutes, or
rights of our kingdom of England; and so that the same
ordinance do not, in any sort, extend to oblige, bind, charge,
or take away the right or interest of any person or persons,
of, or in member, life, freehold, goods or chattels.

IX. Furthermore, that the new colony may more happily
increase by a multitude of people resorting thither, and at
the same time may be more firmly secured from the incur-
sions of savages, or of other enemies, pirates, and ravagers;
WE, therefore, for us, our heirs and successors, do by these
presents give and grant power, license and liberty, to all the
liege-men and subjects, present and future, of us, our heirs
and successors, except such to whom it shall be expressly
forbidden, to transport themselves and their families to the
said PROVINCE, with fitting vessels, and suitable provisions,
and therein to settle, dwell, and inhabit; and to build and
fortify castles, forts, and other places of strength, at the
appointment of the aforesaid now baron of BALTIMORE, and
his heirs, for the public and their own defence; the statute of
fugutives, or any other whatsoever to the contrary of the
premises in any wise notwithstanding.

X. We will also, out of our more abundant grace, for us,
our heirs and successors, do firmly charge, constitute, ordain,
and command, that the said PROVINCE be of our allegiance;
and that all and singular the subjects and liege-men of us,
our heirs and successors, transplanted, or hereafter to be
transplanted into the PROVINCE aforesaid, and the children of
them, and of others their descendants, whether already born
there, or hereafter to be born, be and shall be natives and
liege-men of us, our heirs and successors, of our kingdom of
England and Ireland; and in all things shall be held, treated,
reputed, and esteemed as the faithful liege-men of us, and
our heirs and successors, born within our kingdom of Eng-
land; also lands, tenements, revenues, services, and other