New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-20

However the latter declined, and q iobg coneio'eA
.v ensned hetween the MARYLAND and Dutch Com
n,issioners. Lord Baltimore soon afterwards ap-
piled to the Dutch Company at New-iork to &C
knowledge his claim, but they gave peremptory
refusal. Nothing important, however, grew oct
sc This war of words, and in 1864, on the conquest
Of New-York by the English, Delaware was sur
rendered to the dominion of the latter, part OF
! New Netherlands, and was placed under the jurs-
diction of New-York. In 1892 William Penn pur-
chased of the Duke of York, all his right, title and
interest in the territory afterwards called the
Three Lover Counties Of Delaware. In the
same year, with the consent of the people, an act
of union with the province Of Pennsylvania was
passed, and constitution or frame of government
was adopted for the two colonies Of Pennsylvania
and Delaware. By the act of union the three
counties OF Delaware, or territories, as they were
| called, were annexed to Pennsylvania, and were
to be re presented in The General Assembly. In
consequence of disputes between the province and
the territories separation finally took place in
1908, by consent Of the proprietary. The first
separate Legislative assembly ofDelaware met at
Newcastle, in 1704 and it ever afterwards con-
tnaed distinct from that Of Pennsylvania, although
| the same Governor presided over both colonies
till the American Revolution.
The first constitution of the State Of Delaware,
which was formed in 1876 placed the Executive
power in President, and Privy Council OF four
| members. In 1892 a new constitution was adopt
ed, by which the Executive was vested in Gov
ernor and the Legislature in Senate and House
of Representatives, called the General Assembly.
| MARYLAsD.-In 1862, Charles the First, King
of England, granted q patent for the Territory,
comprising the present State of Maryland, to Ce-
cilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore. 1t had been in
Guided in the original grant TO the Virginia Com
pany, but when that Company was dissolved the
territory ed to the British Crown. In honor
of his Queen, Henrietta Maria, the King called the
new province Mary land.
Lord Baltimore, as is well known, was Roman
Catholic, and was induced to attempt this settle
ment in America in hopes of enjoying liberty OF
conscience for himself and for such of his friends
TO whom the severity OF the laws might loosen their
ties to their native country and make them prefer
an easy banishment with freedom, to the conven'
fences of England, emb;tered as they were by the
sharpness Of the laws and the popular odium which
hung over them. The Court at that time (says
Burke) was certainly very little inclined to treat
the Roman Catholics in harsh manner-neither
had they in reality the least appearance of renson
TO do so; but the laws themselves were of rigor-
GUS constitution and however the Court might be
inclined to relax then they could not in policy do
it, but with great reserve. The Puritan party per-
petrally accused the Court, and indeed the Epis-
copal Church, of desire OF returning to Popery
and this accusation was popular that it was not
in the power of the Court to show the Roman Cath
olics that indulgence which they desired. The
laws were still executed with very little mitigation
and they were in themselves of much kecner
temper than those which had driven the Puritans
about the same time to seek refuge in the same
part of tho world. These reasons made Lord Bal
timore DESTROYS to have, and the Court willing TO
give him place of retreat in America
The Charter granting Maryland TO Lord Bbasiftti-
more invested him with full and ample powers of
government without the interference of royal au-
tbority. 1t authorised the proprietary to make,
ord ain, and establish all laws necessary for the
good of the province, with the advice, assent,
and appreciation of the greater part OF The free
men, or their deputies. For the purpose OF max
ing these laws, the proprietary was directed to
assemble the freemen, or their deputies, when,
and in such form, to him and them should
seem best; and the proprietary was to see that
the laws thus made were duly executed. He was
also vested with full executive power; and the
establishment Of courts of justice was provided tor
Here, as we'll as in some of the other colonies,
while the freemen were few in number, the whole
met and gave assent to the laws by which they
we're governed. In 1889, however, house OF
bun gesses was established, consisting of represen
tatives elected by the freemen. These represcn
,atiyes, with others designated by special writs OF
the proprietor, constituted the Legislature. -
(Pitkin.)
There is no clause in the patent requiring any
transmission of the laws Of the colony TO the
Crown, or providing for the royal appreciation or
assent. Chalmers remarks, that Z" Maryland has
always enjoyed the snrivalled honor of being the
FIRST colony which wes erected into province of
the English empire, and governed regularly by
laws enacted in provincial legislature
The settlement OF this colony cost Lord Balt-
more large expenditure of money. The first emf
grafton made under his auspices was in Novem-
Der, 1882 and consisted of his brother and about
two hundred gentlemen and their adherents,
chiefly Roman Catholics, and most of them OF
rank and fortune. 90 Lord Baltimore (says Chal-
! rners) laid the foundation oil this Province upon
the broad basis of security to property and OF tree
dom of religion, granting in absolute fee nifty acres