CHARTER OF MARYLAND. 101

Factors or Assigns, all Wares and Merchandizes whatsoever,
which shall be collected out of the Fruits and Commodities of
he said PROVINCE, whether the Product of the Land or the
Sea, into any of the Ports whatsoever of US, our Heirs and
Successors, of England or Ireland, or otherwise to dispose pf
the same there; and, if Need be, within One Year, to be com-
puted immediately from the Time of unlading thereof, to lade
the same Merchandizes again in the same or other Ships, and
to export the same to any other Countries they shall think
proper, whether belonging to US, or any foreign Power, which
shall be in Amity with US, our Heirs or Successors; Provided
always, that they be bound to pay for the same to US, our
Heirs and Successors, such Customs and Impositions, Subsides
and Taxes, as our other Subjects of the Kingdom of England,
for the Time being shall be bound to pay, beyond which WE
WILL that the Inhabitants of the aforesaid PROVINCE of the said
Land, called MARYLAND, shall not be burdened.

XVI. AND FURTHERMORE, of our more ample special Grace,
and of our certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, WE do for
US, our Heirs and Successors, grant unto the aforesaid now
Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns, full and
absolute Power and Authority to make, erect and constitute,
within the PROVINCE of MARYLAND, and the Islands and
Islets aforesaid, such, and so many Sea-Ports, Harbours, Creeks,
and other Places of Unlading and Discharge of Goods and
Merchandizes out of ships, Boats and other Vessels, and of
Lading in the same, and in so many, and such places, and
with such Rights, Jurisdictions, Liberties and Privileges, unto
such Ports respecting, as to him or them shall seem most
expedient: And, that all and every the Ships, Boats and other
Vessels whatsoever, coming tp, or going from the PROVENCE
aforesaid, for the Sake of Merchandizing, shall be laden and
unladen at such Ports only as shall be so erected and con-
stituted by the said now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs
and Assigns any Usage, Custom, or any other Thing whatsoever
to the contrary notwithstanding. SAVING always to US, our
Heirs and Successors, and to all the Subjects of our Kingdoms
of England and Ireland, of US, our Heirs and Successors, the
Liberty of Fishing for Sea-Fish as well in the Sea, Bays,
Straits and navigable Rivers, as in the Harbours, Bays and
Creeks of the PROVINCE aforesaid; and the Privilege of Salting
and Drying Fish on the Shores of the same PROVINCE; and for
that Cause, to cut down and take Hedging-Wood and Twigs