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 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 Incur-
sions 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 Successors, except such to whom it shall be ex-
pressly forbidden, to transport themselves and their Families
to the said PROVINCE, with fitting Vessels, and suitable Pro-
visions, and therein to settle, dwell, and inhabit; and to build
and fortify Castles, Forts, and other Places of Strength at the
Appointment of the aforesaid, now Baron of BALTIMORE,
and his Heirs, for the Public and their own Defence; the Sta-
tute of Fugitives, or any other whatsoever to the contrary of
the Premises in any wise notwithstanding.

X. WE will also, out of our more abundant Grace, for US,
our Heirs and Successors, do firmly charge, constitute, ordain
and command that the said PROVINCE be of our Allegiance;
and that all and singular the Subjects and Liege-Men of US,
our Heirs and Successors, transplanted, or hereafter to be
transplanted into the PROVINCE aforesaid, and the children of
them, and of others their Descendants, whether already born