Acts. 33

person or persons shall deny or refuse to give the Owner or Owners
of such Lands as aforesaid peaceable and quiett possession thereof
Such Owner and Owners shall and may recover his right to the same
by Ejectment or otherwise as the Law doth direct any thing in the
former Act conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding And for
prevention of the abuses frequently comitted by persons keeping
Watermills in taking of excessive Toll Be it therefore Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid by and with the Advice and consent aforesaid
that from and after the Publicacon hereof as aforesaid no Master
Owner Miller or other person properly owning or otherwise belong-
ing unto any Mill within this Province shall aske demand or receive
for grinding any Quantity or Quantityes of Indian Corne or Wheate
whatsoever above the Sixth parte of every bushell of Indian Corne
and the Eighth parte of every bushell of Wheate by him or them
soe ground as aforesaid upon penalty and forfeiture of one Thousand
pounds of Tobaccoe for every default to be disposed of by the Vestry
of that Parish wherein such Offend^r or Offend^rs shall reside as they
shall thinke fitt, to be recovered in the respective County Courts by
Accon of Debt Bill Plaint or Informacon wherein no Essoyne Protec-
con or Wager of Law shall be allowed any other Act usage or Cus-
tome to the contrary notwithstanding.

Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts

An Act for payment and Assessing the Publick Charges of this
Province.

Whereas there hath been one Million sixty two Thousand Nine
hundred twenty Eight pounds of Tobacco expended laid out and
disbursed by severall the Inhabitants of this Province in discharge
of the Publick debts of this Province, To the intent therefore that
the same may be satisfied and paid to those persons to whom the same
is due
Be it Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Ma^tys
by and with the Advice and Consent of this present Generall As-
sembly and the Authority of the same That the said Sume of One
Million Sixty two Thousand nine hundred twenty Eight pounds of
Tobacco be paid in manner and forme as is hereafter expressed by an
Equall Assessments upon the persons and Estates of the Inhabitants
of this Province and to whom the same is due as aforesaid Any Law
Statute Usage or Custome to the Contrary thereof notwithstanding
That is to say to James Cullen four thousand six hundred and
seaventy Eight pounds of Tobacco, To M^r Miles Burrowes two
Thousand Eight hundred seaventy five, to M^r Jn^o Evans three Thou-
sand Eighty nine, to M^r W^m Guider five thousand seaven hundred
forty Eight, To James Browne nine Thousand two hundred Eighty
nine, to Jn^o Savage five hundred, to M^r Garrett Vanswaringen Ten
thousand five hundred forty one, to M^r Ja: Brown more three hun-
dred and thirty, to M^r Vanswarin more five hundred, to M^r Burrowes

Acts of 1694,
ch. 32