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Maryland Manual, 1971-72
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MARYLAND MANUAL 609
join, charge, and command, to be most absolute and firm
in Law, and to be kept in those Parts by all the Subjects
and Liege-Men of US, our Heirs and Successors, so far as
they concern them, and to be inviolably observed under the
Penalties therein expressed, or to be expressed. So NEVER-
THELESS, that the Laws aforesaid be Consonant to Reason,
and be not repugnant or contrary, but (so far as conven-
iently may be) agreeable to the Laws, Statutes, Customs
and rights of this Our Kingdom of England.
VIII. AND FORASMUCH as, in the Government of so
great a PROVINCE, sudden Accidents may frequently hap-
pen, to which it will be necessary to apply a Remedy, before
the Freeholders 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 Pres-
ents, 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, there-
unto duly to be constituted as aforesaid, may, and can
make and constitute fit and wholesom 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 publickly to notify the same to all Persons
whom the same in anywise do or may affect. Which Ordi-
nances 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 Rights 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 Suc-
cessors, do by these Presents give and grant Power, Licence
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-

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