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and Successors, so far as they concern them, and to be in-
violably 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 Eights 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 Conversation
of the Peace, as for the Better Government of the People in-
habiting therein, and publickly 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 conveniently
may be done) agreeable to the Laws, Statutes, or Rights of
our Kingdom of England: and so that the same Ordinances
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
Incursions 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 USE, our Heirs and Su«cessors, except such to
whom it shall be expressly forbidden, to transport them-
selves 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