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Maryland Manual, 1927
Volume 140, Page 345   View pdf image (33K)
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MARYLAND MANUAL. 345


So NEVERTHELESS, that the Laws aforesaid be Consonant to
Reason, and be no repugnant or contrary, but (So far as
conveniently may be) agreeable to the Laws, Statutes, Cus
toms 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
Freeholders of the said PROVINCE, their Delegates or Depu
ties, can be called together for the framing of Laws; neither
will it be fit that so great a number of People should im
mediately on such emergent Occasion, be called together,
WE THEREFORE, 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 BALTIMORE, and to his Heirs that the afore
said now Baron of BALTIMORE, and his Heirs, by them
selves, or by their Magistrates and Officers, thereunto duly
to be constituted as aforesaid, may, and can make and con
stitute fit and wholesome 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 inhabiting therein, and publicly
to notify the same to all Persons whom the same in any
wise do or may affect. 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 Ordi
nances be Consonant to Reason, and ‘be not repugnant nor
contrary, but (so far as conveniently may be done) agree
able to the Laws, Statutes, or Right 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 hap
pily 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 US, our Heirs and Successors, 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
other Places of Strength at the Appointment of the afore
said, now Baron of BALTIMORE, and his Heirs, for the


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