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Sioussat's The English Statutes in Maryland, 1903
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539] The English Statutes in Maryland. 75
the English, of whom we yet frequently purchase
their Rights of such Lands as we take up—as well
as of the Lord Proprietary.
Resolved further, that this Province hath always,
hitherto, had the Common Law, and such general
Statutes of England as are not restrained by
Words of local Limitation in them and such Acts
of Assembly as were made in the Province to suit
its particular Constitution as the will and stand-
ard of its Government and Judicature, such Stat-
utes and Acts of Assembly being Subject to the
like Rules of Common Law or Equitable Con-
struction, as are used by the Judges in Construing
Statutes in England, which happy Rules have by
His Majesty and His Royal Ancestors, and also
by his Lordship and his Noble Ancestors, or some
of them, been hitherto approved, by having the
Commissions of Judicature to include Directions
of that Nature to the several Judicial Magistrates,
unless those words have at any time been casually
or carelessly omitted by the Officers, in this Prov-
ince, that drew such Commissions. That, there-
fore whoever shall advise his Lordship, or his
Successors, to Govern by any other Rules of Gov-
ernment, are evil Councillours, ill wishers to his
Lordship, and to our present happy Constitution,
and intend thereby to infringe our English Liber-
ties, and to frustrate in great Measure, the Intent
of the Crown—by the Original Grant of this Prov-
ince to the Lord Proprietary.
Resolved further that the foregoing Resolutions
of the House are not occasioned by any Apprehen-
sion that the Lord Proprietary has ever infringed,
or ever had any Intention to infringe the Liber-
ties or Privileges of the People, or to Govern
otherwise than according to the Usage and Custom
of the Country since the first Settlement thereof,
but meerly to assert their Rights and Liberties,
and to transmit their Sense thereof, and of the
Nature of their Constitution to Posterity, without
the least design of reflecting upon any person
whatsoever.
Ordered That the Copy of the Several Resolves
of the 25 Instant be made out—which was accord-

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