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Handout #186 |
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Toleration in Maryland |
| Part of the 'Act concerning Religion' of the
Maryland Assembly, 1649 A.D. The 'Lord Proprietory' mentioned was the
second Lord Baltimore.
No person or persons whatsoever within this Province, or the Islands, Ports, Harbors, Creeks, or havens thereunto belonging professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any ways troubled, molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this province or the islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the belief or exercise of any other religion against his or her consent, so as they be not unfaithful to the Lord Proprietory, or molest or conspire against the civil government established or to be established in this province under him or his heirs. |
