230 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 5-Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

the Governour here for the time being as aforesaid shall be
good and available in law to the Grantee as aforesaid for any
term of years not exceeding eighty years as aforesaid ag^t all
persons whatsoever any Law Custom or Usage heretofore had
made or us'd within this Province to the Contrary notwith-
standing.
Provided allways that before any Person or Persons what-
soever shall have such Grant to build a Water mill as afore-
said he or they shall enter into bond to her said Majesty with
two Sufficient Suretys in the Sume of fifty thousand pounds

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of Tobacco 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 already found to the
Province in generall by the Mills already built some of which
do stand upon lands whereof the Title is doubtfull for want of
due forme of the Conveyance or of the last wills and testa-
ments by which the lands have been conveyed or devised to
the builders of such Mills.
Be it therefore enacted that all & every such person or
persons as aforesaid who have built Mills shall and may have
Writt or Writts as aforesaid to enquire of the true yearly value
of the land where such Mill doth stand and of tenn Acres of
land on each side of the said runn as aforesaid and upon re-
turn of such Writt as af^d shall have a grant from her Majestys
Chief Governour here as aforesaid for any term not exceeding
eighty years and yearly rent returne as aforesaid to be paid 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 aforesaid that from and
after the publication hereof no person or persons whatsoever
having or that shall hereafter have obtain'd any Grant for any
Lands whereof such person or persons are not the real Owners
or Possessors thereof and whereupon he she or they have
already 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 for any time or terme whatsoever after such
Mill by him or them already built as aforesaid or that shall
hereafter be built shall be casually broke or gone to decay as
aforesaid other than two years for the new erecting building
finishing and repairing of such mill as aforesaid but that in all
and every Case where any person or persons that have already
built or that shall hereafter build any Water mill which are or
that hereafter shall be broke or gone to decay as aforesaid and
shall not within two years after the Publication hereof or
within two years after such mill shall become broke or gone
to decay as aforesaid cause the same to be new builded repaired