532 Assembly Proceedings, June 29-June 22,1699.

Lib. L. L.
p. 294

Owner of the said Land so found and returned as aforesaid
which said Grant from his said Ma^ty his heires and Successors
or from the Governor here for the time being as aforesaid shall
be good and available in Law to the Grantee as afores^d for
any terme of Years not Exceeding Eighty Years as aforesaid
ag^t all persons whatsoever any Law Custom or usage hereto-
fore had made or used within this Province to the Contrary
Notwithstanding.
Provided allways that before any Person or Persons whatso-
ever shall have such grant to build a Water Mill as aforesaid
then shall Enter into a Bond to his said Ma^ty with two Suffi-
cient Surties in the Sume of fifty thousand Pounds of Tobbacco
with Condition to begin to build the said Water Mill within
one Year then next to Come and the building to prosecute
and finish within two Years after such beginning and for the
great advantage that is allready found to the Province in Gen-
erall by the Mills allready built some of which doe Stand upon
Lands whereof the Title is doubtfull for of due forme of the
Conveyance or the last Wills, & Testaments by which the
Lands have been Conveyed or Devised to the builders of such
Mills. Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
That all and every Such person or persons as aforesaid who
have built Mills shall or may have Such Writt or Writts as
aforesaid to Enquire of the True Yearly Value of the Land
where Such Mill doth Stand and of Ten Acres of Land on
each Side of the said Run as afores^d and upon Returne of
Such Writt as aforesaid shall have a Grant from his Ma^tys
Chief Governor here as aforesaid for any Term not Exceeding
Eighty Years and Yearly Rent returne as aforesaid to be paid

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to the Right Owner of the said Land as aforesaid any Law or
usage to the Contrary hereof in any wise Notwithstanding.
And be it Enacted by the Authority afores^d That from and
after the Publication hereof no person or persons whatsoever
haveing or that shall hereafter have obteined any Grant for
any Lands whereof such person or persons are not the reall
Owners or Possessors thereof and whereupon he she or they
have allready built or shall hereafter build a Water Mill as
this Law hath before directed shall have any Right title or
Claime to any Land Granted to them for any time or terme
whatsoever after such Mill by him or them all ready built as
af^d or that shall hereafter be built shall be Causually broak or
gone to decay as aforesaid other then Two Years for the new
Erecting building finishing and repairing of Such Mill as
aforesaid but that in all and every Cause where any person or
persons that have Allready built or that shall hereafter build
any Water Mill w^ch are or that hereafter shall be broke or
gone to decay as afores^d and shall not within Two Years after