XIII.-[Authorization for martial law, under, the usual restrictions.]
XIV.—[Authority for Baltimore to confer titles of nobility (not such as in England), to incorporate towns, etc.]
XV-XVI.—[Regulations regarding ports and temporary exemptions from English custom duties.]
XVII.—Moreover, We will, appoint, and ordain, and by these Presents, for US, our Heirs and Successors, do grant unto the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns, that the same Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns, from Time to Time, for ever, shall have, and enjoy the Taxes and Subsidies payable, or arising within the Ports, Harbours, and other Creeks and Places aforesaid, within the Province aforesaid, for Wares bought and sold, and Things there to be laden, or unladen, to be reasonably assessed by them on emergent Occasion, and the People there as aforesaid; to whom WE grant Power by these Presents, for US, our Heirs and Successors, to assess and impose the said Taxes and Subsidies there, upon just Cause, and in due Proportion.
XVIII.—And furthermore ..., WE ... do give ... unto the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns, full and absolute License, Power, and Authority ... [to] assign, alien, grant, demise, or enfeoff so many, such, and proportionate Parts and Parcels of the Premises, to any Person or Persons willing to purchase the same, as they shall think convenient, to have and to hold ... in Fee-simple, or Fee-tail, or for Term of Life, Lives, or Years; to hold of the aforesaid now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns, by ... such ... Services, Customs and Rents OF THIS KIND, as to the same now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns, shall seem fit and agreeable, and not immediately of US ... [notwithstanding the English law Quia Emptores or other statutes to the contrary].
XIX.—We also, ... do ... grant Licence to the same Baron of BALTIMORE, and to his Heirs, to erect any Parcels of Land within the Province aforesaid, into Manors, and in every of those Manors, to have and to hold a Court-Baron, and all Things which to a Court-Baron do belong; and to have and to keep View of Frank-Pledge, for the Conservation of the Peace and better Government of those Parts, by themselves and their Stewards, or by the Lords, for the Time being to be deputed, of other of those Manors when they shall be constituted, and in the same to exercise all Things to the View of Frank-Pledge belonging.
XX.—And further We will, and do ... grant ... that we, our heirs and successors, at no time hereafter, will impose any impositions, customs, or other taxations ... whatever, in or upon the residents ... of the province, for their goods, lands, or tenements ... or in or upon any goods or merchandizes within the province or within the ports or harbors of the said province [this declaration to be a sufficient quittance to all English officers].
XXI.—[Maryland not to be reputed a part of Virginia but to be immediately dependent upon the crown.]
XXII.—[Baltimore and his heirs to be entitled to the most generous interpretation of any indefinite clause in the charter] "provided always that no interpretation be made thereof whereby God's holy and true Christian religion, nor the allegiance due to us ... may in any wise suffer ... prejudice or diminution."