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 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 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 wholesome Ordinances
from Time to Time, to be kept and observed within the PROV-
INCE 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
anywise 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 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 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.

EX. 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 for-
bidden, to transport themselves 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 Appoint-
ment of the aforesaid, now Baron of BALTIMORE, and his
Heirs, for the Public and their own Defense; the Statute 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 commend 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 trans-
planted into the PROVINCE aforesaid, and the children of them,
and of others their Descendants, whether already born there,