MARYLAND MANUAL 621
Clothing, by the Laws and Statutes of our Kingdoms and
Dominions, not prohibited to be transported out of the said
Kingdoms; and the same to transport, by themselves, or
their Servants or Assigns, into the said PROVINCE, without
the Impediment or Molestation of US, our Heirs or Suc-
cessors, or of any officers of US, our Heirs or Successors,
(SAVING unto Us, our Heirs and Successors, the Imposi-
tions, Subsidies, Customs, and other Dues payable for the
same Goods and Merchandizes) any Statute, Act, Ordi-
nance, or other Thing whatsoever to the contrary notwith-
standing.
XII. BUT BECAUSE, that in so remote a Region, placed
among so many barbarous Nations, the Incursions as well
of the Barbarians themselves, as of other Enemies, Pirates
and Ravagers, probably will be feared, THEREFORE WE
have Given, and for US, our Heirs, and Successors, do Give
by these Presents, as full and unrestrained Power, as any
Captain-General of an Army ever hath had, unto the afore-
said now Baron of BALTIMORE, and to his Heirs and As-
signs, by themselves or by their Captains, or other Officers,
to summon to their Standards, or to array all Men, of
whatsoever Condition, or wheresoever born, for the Time
being, in the said Province of MARYLAND, to wage War,
and to pursue, even beyond the Limits of their Province,
the Enemies and Ravagers aforesaid, infesting those Parts
by Land and by Sea, and (if GOD shall grant it) to van-
quish and captivate them, and the Captives to put to Death,
or, according to their Discretion, to save, and to do all other
and singular the Things which appertain, or have been ac-
customed to appertain unto the Authority and Office of a
Captain-General of an Army.
XIII. We also WILL, and by this our CHARTER, do
Give unto the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, and
to his Heirs, and Assigns, Power, Liberty, and Authority,
that, in Case of Rebellion, sudden Tumult, or Sedition, if
any (which GOD forbid) should happen to arise, whether
upon Land within the PROVINCE aforesaid, or upon the
High Sea in making a Voyage to the said PROVINCE of
MARYLAND, or in returning thence, they may, by them-
selves, or by their Captains, or other Officers, thereunto
deputed under their Seals (to whom WE, for US, our Heirs
and Successors, by these Presents, do Give and Grant the
fullest Power and Authority) exercise Martial Law as free-
ly, and in as ample Manner and Form, as any Captain-
General of an Army, by virtue of his Office may, or hath
accustomed to use the same, against the seditious Authors
of Innovations in those Parts, withdrawing themselves
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