104 CHARTER OF MARYLAND.

or unladen: And WE Will and do, for US, our Heirs and
Successors, enjoin and command that this our Declaration shall
from Time to Time, be received and allowed in all our Courts
and Praetorian Judicatories, and before all the Judges whatso-
ever of US, our Heirs and Successors, for a sufficient and
lawful 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 Dis-
pleasure, that they do not at any Time presume to attempt
any Thing to the contrary of the Premisses, or that may in
any wise contravene the same, but that they, at all Times as is
fitting, do aid and assist the aforesaid now Baron of BALTI-
MORE, 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 Enjoyment of this our CHARTER.

XXI. AND FURTHERMORE WE WILL, and by these Presents,
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 be 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 be dependent on
the same, or subordinate in any kind of Government, 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;