Claiborne and a fellow-parliament man passed an Act outlawing sin, vice, and the most minute infractions of the Sabbath.

Maryland's Toleration Act laid the principle of the free practice of religion. But you also be penalized for denying Christ was a Saviour or the existence of God. Toleration did not extent to outspoken Jews and atheists. No Christian could 'bee any wais troubled, molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof.'