NOTWITHSTANDING which Separation of the Province and Territories, in Respect of Legislation, I do hereby promise, grant and declare, That the Inhabitants of both Province and Territories, shall separately enjoy all other Liberties, Privileges and Benefits, granted jointly to them in this Charter, any Law, Usage, or Custom of this Government heretofore made and practised, or any Law made and passed by this General Assembly, to the contrary hereof notwithstanding.
WILLIAM PENN.
THIS CHARTER of PRIVILEGES being distinctly read in Assembly, and the whole and every Part thereof, being approved of and agreed to, by us, we do thankfully receive the same from our Proprietary and Governor, at Philadelphia, this twenty-eighth Day of October, one Thousand seven Hundred and One.
Signed on Behalf, and by Order of the Assembly, per
Joseph Growdon,
Speaker
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Edward Shippen, }
Phineas Pemberton, }
Samuel Carpenter, } Proprietary and Governor's Council.
Griffith Owen, }
Caleb Pusey, }
Thomas Story, }