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or Assigns, into the said PROVINCE without the Impediment
or Molestation of US, our Heirs or Successors, of any officers
of US, our .Heirs or Successors (Saving unto US, our Heirs
and Successors, the Impositions, Subsidies, Customs, and
other Dues payable for the same Goods and Merchandizes),
any Statute, Act, Ordinance or other Thing whatsoever to
the contrary notwithstanding.

XII. BUT BECAUSE, that in so remote a Region, placed
among so many barbarous Nations, the Incursions, as well of
the Barbarians themselves, as of other Enemies, Pirates and
Ravagers, probably will be feared, THEREFORE WE have
Given, and for US, our Heirs and Successors, do Give by
these Presents, as full and unrestrained Power as any Cap-
tain-General of an Army ever hath had, unto the aforesaid
now Baron of BALTIMORE, and to his Heirs and Assigns,
by themselves or by their Captains or other Officers, to sum-
mon to their Standards, or to array all Men, of whatsoever
Condition, or wheresoever born for the Time being, in the
said Province of MARYLAND, to wage War, and to pursue',
even beyond the Limits of their Province, the Enemies .and
Ravagers aforesaid, infesting those Parts by Land and by
Sea, and (if GOD shall grant it) to vanquish and captivate
them, and the Captives to put to Death, or, according to their
Discretion, to save, and to do all other and singular the
Things which appertain, or have been accustomed to apper-
tain unto the Authority and Office of a Captain-General of
an Army.

XIII. We also WILL, and by this our CHARTER, do
Give unto the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, and to
his Heirs and Assigns, Power, Liberty and Authority, that,
in Case of Rebellion, sudden Tumult or Sedition, if any
(which GOD forbid) should happen to arise, whether upon
Land within the PROVINCE aforesaid, or upon the High Sea
in making a Voyage to the said PROVINCE of MARYLAND,
or in returning thence, they may, by themselves, or by their
Captains, or other Officers, thereunto deputed under their
Seals (to whom WE, for US, our Heirs and Successors, by
these Presents, do Give and Grant the fullest Power and
Authority) exercise Martial Law as freely, and in as ample
Manner and Form, as any Captain-General of any Army, by
virtue of his Office may, or hath accustomed to use the same,
against the seditious Authors of Innovations in those Parts,
withdrawing themselves from the Government of him or
them, refusing to serve in War, flying over to the Enemy,
exceeding their Leave of Absence, Deserters, or otherwise
howsoever offending against the Rule, Law, or Discipline of
War.