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such Form as the said William Penn or his HEirs shall seem most convenient
Also to Remit Release Pardon and Abolish whether before judgment or after all Crimes &
offences whatsoever Committed within the said Country against the said Laws (Treason and
willfull and malicious Murder only excepted) and in those Cases to grant Reprieves untill
Our Measure may be known therein and to do all and every other thing and things which
unto the compleat Establishment of Justice unto Courts and Tribunals Forms of Judica
here and manner of Proceedings do belong altho in these Presents express mention be not
made thereof and by Judges by them Delagated to award Process hold Please and Determing
in all the said Courts and Tribunals all Actions Suits and Causes whatsoever as well
Criminals as Civil Personal REal and Mixt which so as aforesaid to be published Our
Pleasure is and so We Enjoyn Require and Command shall be most absolute and
available in Law and that all the LIege Peoplesand Subjects of Us Our Heirs and
Successors do observe and keep the same inviolable in these Parts so far as they
concern them under the Pain thereing Expressed or to be Expressed Provided
nevertheless that the said Laws be Conspmamt tp Reaspm amd be not Repugnant nor
Contrary but as near as conveinently may be agreeable to the Laws Statutes and
Rights of this OUr Kingdom of England And saving and reserving to Us Our Heirs
and SUccessors the receiving hearing and determining of the Appeal and Appeals of
all or any Person or Persons of in or belonging to the Territories aforesaid or touching any
Judgment to be there made or given And Forasmuch as in the Government of
so great a Country suddain Accidents do often happen whereunto it will be necessary
to apply a REmedy before the Freeholders of the said Province or their Delegaties or
Deputies can be Assembled to the making of Laws neither will it be convenient that
instantly upon every such emergent Occasion so great a Multitude should be called
together Therefore for the better Government of the said Country We will and
Ordain and by the Presents for Us Our Heirs and SUccessors so Grant unto the said
William Penn and his Heirs by themselves or by their Magistrates and Officers in that
behalf only to be ordained as aforesaid to make and constitute fitt and wholsome
Ordinances from time to time wihin the said Country to be kept and observed as well for
the Preservation of the Peace as for the better Government of the People there inhabiting
and publickly to notifye the same to all Persons whom the same Cooth or any way
may concern Which Ordinances Our Will and treasure is shall be observed friviolably
within the said Province under pains therein to be expressed So as the said Ordinances
be Consonant to Reason and be not Repugnant nor Contrary but so far as conveniently
may be agreeable with the Laws of Our Kingdom of England And so as the said
Ordinances be not extended in any sort to Bind Charge or take away the Right or
Interest of any Person or Persons for or in their Life Members Freehold Goods or Chattles
And Our further Will and Pleasure is that the Laws of Regulating and Governing
of Property with the said Province as well for the Descent and Enjoyment of Lands as likewise for
the Enjoyment and Succession of Goods and Chattles and likewise as to Felonies shall be
and continue the same as they shall be for the time being by the general course of
the Law in Our Kingdom of England until the said Laws shall be altered by the said
William Penn his Heirs of Assignes and by the Freemen of the said Province their
Delegates or Deputies or the greater part of them And to the End the said William Penn
or his Heirs or other the planters Owners or Inhabitants of the said Province may not
at any time hereafter by Misconstruction of the Powers aforesaid through Inadvertency
or Designs depart from that Faith or due Allegiance which by the Laws of this Our
Realm of England they and all Our Subjects in Our Dominions and Terrirotires always
owe