CHARTER OF MARYLAND. 97

these Presents be not made; and, by Judges by them delegated,
to award Process, hold Pleas, and determine in those Courts,
Praetorian Judicatories, and Tribunals, in all Actions, Suits,
Causes and Matters whatsoever, as well Criminal as Personal,
Real and Mixed, and Praetorian: Which said Laws, so to be
published as abovesaid, WE will, enjoin, charge and command,
to be most absolute and firm in Law, and to be kept in those
Parts by all the Subjects and Liegemen of US, our Heirs, and
Successors, so far as they concern them, and to be inviolably
observed under the Penalities therein expressed, or to be
expressed. So NEVERTHELESS, that the Laws aforesaid be Con-
sonant to Reason, and be not repugnant or contrary, but (so
far as conveniently 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 happen 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 Presents, 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, thereunto
duly to be constituted as aforesaid, may, and can make and con-
stitute fit and wholesome Ordinances from Time to Time, to be
kept and observed within the PROVINCE 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 any wise do or may affect.
Which Ordinances, 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 King-
dom 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.