Time to Time, be received and allowed in all our Courts
and Praetorian Judicatories, and before all the Judges what-
soever of US, our Heirs and Successors, for a sufficient and law-
ful Discharge, Payment and Acquittance thereof, charging all
and singular the Officers and Ministers of US, our Heirs and
Successors, and enjoining them, under our heavy Displeasure,
that they do not at any Time presume to attempt any Thing
to the contrary of the Premises, or that may in any wise con-
travene the same, but that they, at all Times as is fitting, do aid
and assist the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, and his
Heirs, and the aforesaid Inhabitants and Merchants of the
PROVINCE of MARYLAND aforesaid, and their Servants and
Ministers, Factors and Assigns, in the fullest Use and Enjoy-
ment of this our CHARTER.

XXI. AND FURTHERMORE WE WILL, and by these Pres-
ents, for US, our Heirs and Successors, do grant unto the
aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns
and to the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the said PROVINCE,
both present and to come, and to every of them, that the said
PROVINCE and the Freeholders or Inhabitants of the said
Colony or Country, shall not henceforth he held or reputed a
member or Part of the Land of Virginia or of any other Colony
already transported, or hereafter to be transported, or to be
dependent on the same, or subordinate in any kind of Govern-
ment, 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 dependent 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 Courts 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 BALTIMORE, or any Statute, Act,
Ordinance, Provisions, Proclamation or Restraint heretofore