same to be accounted for at the next General Assembly.
    XIII.  Souldiers employ'd in any publick Service, shall
be paid in the Counties where they live.
    XIV.  This Act to endure for 3 years, and to the
end of the next Session of Assembly after the said 3
years.

                        Mills.

    I.  An. 11. W. 3. 1699. p. 85.  Any Person desiring to
set up a Water-Mill upon any run of Water, not being
the Possession or Freehold of such Person, may purchase
Writ out of the Court of Chancery, directed to the Sheriff
of the County where such land lieth, requiring him
by the Oaths of 12 men of his County, to enquire what
damage it would be to the King, or others, to have a
Mill set up in such a Place as aforesaid, &c. (the form of
which Writ is exprest in the Act at large.)
    II.  Upon the return of which Writ, in case the Owner
of the Land shall refuse to build a Mill thereon, or
give security so to do within a year, and finish the same
within 2 years, for the publick good of the Province, the
King, or Governor for the time being, may grant 20 Acres
(viz. 10 Acres on one side of the Run, and 10 on the
other) fit to build a Water-Mill upon, with free egress
and regress to the said Mill, together with Liberty to
sell any Timber for building the same, other than Board
Timber fit for Clapboards, for any time not exceeding
80 years, under the yearly Rent of the Lands, as found
by the 12 men, by vertue of the Writ abovesaid, to be paid
to the Owner of the Land.
    III.  Provided that before any person shall have such
Grant, he shall give Bond to the King, with 2 sufficient
sureties, in the sum of 50000 l. of Tobacco, conditioned
to begin to build the said Water-Mill within one year,
and finish the same in two years next following.
    IV.  All and every person and persons who have already
built Mills as aforesaid, shall and may have such Writ
of Enquiry, and such Grant as aforesaid, any Law or
Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
    V.  No person that hath obtained, or shall hereafter
obtain any Grant of Lands whereof such person is not

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