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Year to be computed immediately from the Time of unlading
thereof to lade the same Merchandizes again in the same or
other Ships, and to export the same to any other Countries
they shall think proper, whether belonging to US, or any
foreign Power, which shall be in Amity with US, our Heirs
or Successors; Provided always, that they be bound to pay
for the same to US, our Heirs and Successors, such Customs
and Impositions, Subsidies and Taxes, as our other Subjects
of the Kingdom of England, for the Time being shall be
bound to pay, beyond which WE WILL that the Inhabitants
of the aforesaid PROVINCE of the said Land, called MARY-
LAND, shall not be burdened.

XVI. AND FURTHERMORE, of our more ample special
Grace, and of our certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, WE
do for US, our Heirs and Successors, grant unto the aforesaid
now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns, full and
absolute Power and Authority to make, erect and constitute,
within the PROVINCE of MARYLAND, and the Islands and
Islets aforesaid, such, and so many Sea-Ports, Harbours,
Creeks, and other Places of Unlading and Discharge of
Goods and Merchandizes out of Ships, Boats and other
Vessels, and of Lading in the same, and in so many, and
such places, and with such Rights, Jurisdictions, Liber-
ties and Privileges, unto such Ports respecting, as to him or
them shall seem most expedient; And, that all and every
the Ships, Boats and other Vessels whatsoever, coming to, or
going from the PROVINCE aforesaid, for the Sake of Merchan-
dizing, shall be laden and unladen at such Ports only as shall
be so erected and constituted by the said now Baron of BAL-
TIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns any Usage, Custom, or any
other Thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding.
SAVING always to US, our Heirs and Successors, and to all
the Subjects of our Kingdoms of England and Ireland, of US,
our Heirs and Successors, the Liberty of Fishing for Sea-Fish
as well in the Sea, Bays, Straits and navigable Rivers, as in
the Harbours, Bays and Creeks of the PROVINCE aforesaid;
and the Privilege of Salting and Drying Fish on the Shores
of the same PROVINCE; and for that Cause, to cut down and
take Hedging-Wood and Twigs there growing, and to build
Huts and Cabbing, necessary in this Behalf in the same
Manner as heretofore they reasonably might, or have used to
do. Which Liberties and Privileges, the said Subject of
US, our Heirs and Successors shall enjoy without notable
Damage or Injury in any wise to be done to the aforesaid now
Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs or Assigns, or to the
Residents and Inhabitants of the same PROVINCE in the Ports
Creeks and Shores aforesaid, and especially in the Woods
and Trees there growing. And if any Person shall do
damage or Injury of this kind, he shall incur the Peril and
Pain of the heavy Displeasure of US, our Heirs and Succes-