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An Abridgment of the Laws of
the real Owner or Possessor, and hath or shall build a
Mill thereon, shall have any Right or Title to such
Land after such Mill shall be casually broke or gone to
decay, other than 2 years for the new Building, or repairing
the same. And if he doth not repair it in that
time, the real Owners of the Land may re-enter upon
the same, or recover the same by Ejectment or otherwise
according to Law.
VI. No Miller or other person belonging
to any Mill
shall receive for grinding any Indian-Corn, or Wheat,
above the 6th part of every Bushel of Indian-Corn, and
8th part of every Bushel of Wheat, upon penalty of Forfeiting
1000 l. of Tobacco to the King.
N.
Naturalization.
I. An.
7. W. &. M. 1695. p. 32. The Fees to be taken
by the Clerks and Officers belonging to the Assembly, for
Naturalization, shall be allowed and adjudged by the
respective Assemblies when such persons are Naturalized.
And no person shall exact more, under the penalty
of 2000 l. of Tobacco, half to the King, and half to the
party grieved.
Negroes.
I. An.
4. W. & M. 1692. p. 2. Where any Negro
or Slave, being in Servitude or Bondage, is or shall
become Christian, and receive the Sacrament of Baptism,
the same shall not, nor ought to be deemed, adjudged,
or construed to be a Manumission, or freeing of any
such Negro or Slave, or his or her Issue, from their Servitude
or Bondage, but that notwithstanding they shall
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