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Maryland Manual, 1927
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352 MARYLAND MANUAL.


that the said PROVINCE and the Fréeholders or Inhabitants
of the said Colony or Country, shall not henceforth be held
or reputed a member or Part of the Land of Virginia or of
any other Colony already transported, or heerafter to be
transported, or to be dependent on the same, or subordinate
in any kind of Government, from which WE do separate
both the said PROVINCE, and Inhabitants thereof, and by
these presents do WILL to be distinct, and that they may be
immediately subject to our Crown of England, and de
pendent on the same for ever.

XXII. AND if, peradventure, hereafter it may happen
that any Doubts or Questions should arise concerning the
true Sense and Meaning of any Word, Clause or Sentence,
contained in this our present CHARTER, WE will, charge
and command, THAT Interpretation to be applied, always,
and in all Things, and in all our Co-urts and Judicatories
whatsoever, to obtain which shall be judged to be the more
beneficial, profitable, and favourable to the aforesaid now
Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns: PROVIDED.
always that no Interpretation thereof be made, whereby
GOD’S holy and true Christian Religion, or the Allegiance
due to US, our Heirs and Successors, may in any wise
suffer by Change, Prejudice, or Diminution; although ex
press Mention be not made in these Presents of the true
yearly Value or Certainty of the Premises, or any Part
thereof, or of other Gifts and Grants made by US, our
Heirs and Predecessors, unto the said now Lord BALTI
MORE, or any Statute, Act, Ordinance, Provision, Procla
mation or Restraint heretofore had, made, published, or
dained or provided, or any other Thing, Cause or Matter
Whatsoever, to the contrary thereof in any wise notwith
standing.

XXIII. IN WITNESS whereof We have caused these our

Letters to be made Patent. WITNESS OURSELVES at
Westminster, the Twentieth Day of June, in the Eighth
Year of our Reign. (June 20, 1632.)


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