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, Praetarian Judicatories, and Tribunals, in all Actions,
Suits, Causes and Matters whatsoever, as well Criminal as
Personal, Real and Mixed, and Praetarian: Which said Laws,
so to be published as above said, 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 Liegemen 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,
bnt (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
of the Peace, as for the Better Government of the People in-
habiting therein, and publicly to notify the same to all Per-
sons 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 Bights 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 Bight or Interest of any Person or Persons, of, or in
Member, Life, Freehold, Goods or Chattels.