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ways prefent) fhall feem neceffary and convenient for the Government of the faid City.

And the fame Laws, Ordinances, Orders and Conftitutions fo to be made, to put in Ufe and Execution accordingly, by the proper Officers of the faid City; and at their Pleasure to revoke, alter, and make anew, as Occafion fhall require.

And also impofe fuch Mulets and Amerciaments upon the Breakers of fuch Laws and Ordinances, as to them in their Difcretion fhall be thought reasonable; which Mulets, as also all other Fines and Amerciaments to be fet or imposed by Virtue of the Powers granted, fhall be levied as above is directed in Cafe of Fines, to the Ufe of the faid Corporation, without rendering any Account thereof to me, my Heirs and Succeffors; with Power to the Common-council aforefaid, to miti gate, remit, or releafe fuch Fines and Mulets, upon the Submiffion of the Parties. Provided always, That no Perfon or Perfons hereafter, fhall have Right of electing or being elected, by Virtue of thefe Prefents, to any Office or Place judicial or minifterial, nor fhall be admitted Freemen of the faid City, unless they be free Denizens of this Province, and are of the Age of twenty-one Years or upwards, and are Inhabitants of the faid City, and have an Eftate of Inheritance or Freehold therein, or are worth fifty Pounds in Money, or other Stock, and have been refident in the faid City for the Space of two Years, or fhall purchase their Freedom of the Mayor and Commonalty aforefaid.

And I do further grant to the faid Mayor and Commonalty of the City of Philadelphia, that they and their Succeffors, fhall and may for ever hereafter hold and keep within the faid City, in every Week of the Year, two Market-days, the one upon the fourth Day of the Week, and the other upon the feventh Day of the Week, in fuch Place

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or Places as is, fhall, or may be appointed for that Purpose, by the faid Commonalty, or their Succeffors, from Time to Time.

And alfo two Fairs therein every Year, the one of them to begin on the fixteenth Day of the third Month, called May, yearly, and fo to be held in and about the Market-place, and continue for that Day and two Days next following; and the other of the faid Fairs to be held in the aforefaid Place on the fixteenth Day of the ninth Month yearly, and for two Days next after.

And I do for me, my Heirs and Affigns, by Virtue of the King's Letters Patent, make, erect and constitute the faid City of Philadelphia, to be a Port or Harbour for discharging and unlading of Goods and Merchandize out of Ships, Boats, and other Veffels; and for landing and shipping them in or upon fuch and fo many Places, Keys and Wharfs there, as by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common-council of the faid City, fhall from Time to Time be thought moft expedient for the Accommodation and Service of the Officers of the Customs, in the Management of the King's Affairs, and Preservation of his Duties, as well as for Conveniency of Trade.

And I do ordain and declare, that the faid Port or Harbour fhall be called the Port of Philadelphia, `and shall extend and be accounted to extend into all fuch Creeks, Rivers, and Places within this Province, and fhall have fo many Wharfs, Keys, Landing-places and Members belonging thereto, for landing and fhipping of Goods, as the faid Mayor, Aldermen, and Common-council for the Time being, with the Approbation of the chief Officer or Officers of the King's Cuftoms, fhall from Time to Time think fit to appoint.

And I do alfo ordain, that the Landing-places now and heretofore used at the Penny-pot-house and VOL. II.

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Blue-anchor, faving to all Perfons their just and legal Right and Properties in the Lands fo to be open, as alfo the Swamp between Bud's Buildings and the Society-hill, fhall be left open and common for the Ufe and Service of the faid City and all others, with Liberty to dig Docks and make Harbours for Ships and Veffels, in all or any Part of the faid Swamp.

And I do hereby grant, that all the vacant Land within the Bounds and Limits of the faid City, fhall remain open as a free Common of Pafture, for the Ufe of the Inhabitants of the faid City, until the fame fhall be gradually taken in, in order to build or improve thereon, and not otherwise. Provided always, That nothing herein contained, fhall debar me or my Heirs in Time to come, from fencing in all the vacant Lands that lie between the Center Meeting-house and the Schuylkil, which I intend fhall be divided from the Land, by me allotted for Delaware Side, by a ftrait Line along the Broad-fireet, from Edward Shippin's Land through the Center Square by Daniel Pegg's Land; nor fhall the fencing or taking in any of the Streets, happening to be within that Inclosure on Schuylkil, be deemed or adjudged to be an Incroachment, where it fhall not interfere or stop any of the Streets or Paffages leading to any of the Houfes built or to be built on that Side, any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithftanding.

And I do grant, that this prefent Charter fhall, in all Courts of Law and Equity, be conftrued and taken most favourably and beneficially, for the faid Corporation.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto fet my Hand and caufed my Great Seal to be affixed. Dated at Philadelphia the five-and-twentieth Day of October, Anno Domini One Thousand feven Hundred and One,

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and in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of King WILLIAM the Third, over England, &c. and the one and twentieth Year of my Government.

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The CHARTER of PRIVILEGES granted by WILLIAM PENN, Efq; to the Inhabitants of Pennfylvania and Territories.

WILLIAM PENN, Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and Territories thereunto belonging. To all to whom these Presents fhall come, fendeth Greeting. Whereas King CHARLES the Second, by his Letters Patents, under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date the fourth Day of March, in the Year One Thoufand fix Hundred and Eighty, was graciously pleafed to give and grant unto me, and my Heirs and Affigns for ever, this Province of Pennsylvania, with divers great Powers and Jurifdictions for the well Government thereof,

And whereas the King's dearest Brother, JAMES Duke of YORK and ALBANY, &c. by his Deeds of Feoffment, under his Hand and Seal duly perfected, bearing Date the twenty-fourth Day of August, One Thousand fix Hundred Eighty and Two, did grant unto me, my Heirs and Affigns, all that Tract of Land, now called the Territories of Pennsylvania, together with Powers and Jurifdictions for the good Government thereof.

And whereas for the Encouragement of all the Freemen and Planters, that might be concerned in the faid Province and Territories, and for the good Government

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Government thereof, I the faid WILLIAM PENN, in the Year One Thoufand fix Hundred Eighty and Three, for me, my Heirs and Affigns, did grant and confirm unto all the Freemen, Planters and Adventurers therein, divers Liberties, Franchises and Properties, as by the faid Grant, entituled, The FRAME of the Government of the Province of Pennfylvania, and Territories thereunto belonging, in America, may appear; which Charter or Frame being found in fome Parts of it, not fo fuitable to the prefent Circumftances of the Inhabitants, was in the third Month, in the Year One Thousand feven Hundred, delivered up to me, by fix Parts of feven of the Freemen of this Province and Territories, in general Affembly met, Provifion being made in the faid Charter, for that End and Purpose.

And whereas I was then pleased to promife, That I would reftore the faid Charter to them again, with neceffary Alterations, or in Lieu thereof, give them another, better adapted to anfwer the present Circumftances and Conditions of the faid Inhabitants; which they have now, by their Reprefentatives in general Affembly, met at Philadelphia, requested me to grant.

Know ye therefore, That for the further Wellbeing and good Government of the faid Province, and Territories; and in Purfuance of the Rights and Powers before-mentioned, I the faid William Penn do declare, grant and confirm, unto all the Freemen, Planters and Adventurers, and other Inhabitants in this Province and Territories, these following Liberties, Franchifes and Privileges, fo far as in me lieth, to be held, enjoyed and kept, by the Freemen, Planters and Adventurers, and other Inhabitants of and in the faid Province and Territories thereunto annexed, for ever..

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