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or of any foreign Dominions, wheresoever established, by the
Imposition of Fines, Imprisonment, and other Punishment
whatsoever; even if it be necessary, and the Quality 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, Magis-
trates, 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, Magistrates 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 BALTIMORE, 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 Things
belonging to the Completion of Justice, and to Courts,
Pretorian Judicatories, and Tribunals, judicial Forms and
Modes of Proceeding, although express Mention thereof in
these Presents be not made; and, by Judges by them dele-
gated, to award Process, hold Pleas, and determine in those
Courts, Praetorian Judicatories, and Tribunals, in all Actions,
Suits, Causes and Matters whatsoever, as well Criminal as
Personal, Real and Mixed, and Praetorian : Which said
Laws, so to be published as abovesaid, WE will, enjoin,
charge and command, 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 the 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 THERE-
FORE, for the 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 BALTI-
MORE, and to his Heirs, that the aforesaid 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 whole-
some Ordinances from Time to Time, to be kept and observed
within the PROVINCE aforesaid, as well for the Conservation