. Dulany's history of Maryland. ilding mills, and pay for them out of the provincial treas-ury, in case the owners of good mill sites refused to build amill thereon in one year from the date of the law. 35. For the prevention of abuses frequently committedby persons keeping water mills, it Avas enacted that no mas-ter, owner, miller, or other person belonging to or owninga mill in the province, should ask or receive for grinding abushel of corn more than one-sixth part of the same, normore than one-eighth part of a bushel of wheat, upon pen-alty or forfeiture of one thousand pounds of tobacco.
. Dulany's history of Maryland. ilding mills, and pay for them out of the provincial treas-ury, in case the owners of good mill sites refused to build amill thereon in one year from the date of the law. 35. For the prevention of abuses frequently committedby persons keeping water mills, it Avas enacted that no mas-ter, owner, miller, or other person belonging to or owninga mill in the province, should ask or receive for grinding abushel of corn more than one-sixth part of the same, normore than one-eighth part of a bushel of wheat, upon pen-alty or forfeiture of one thousand pounds of tobacco. 90 THE HISTORY OF MARYLAND. 36. It was further enacted that all roads leading toAnnapolis should be marked on trees with the letters AA,done with marking irons and colored ; the roads that ledto the port of Williamstadt on the eastern shore, by asmooth place cut on the face of trees on which was markedthe letter W. Roads that led to court-houses were markedby two notches on trees on both sides of the road, and ^R-iirJliii-fj ^. STATE-HOUSE, ANNAPOLIS. roads leading to churches were marked by a slip cut downthe face of a tree, near the ground. STATE-HOUSE BURNT. 91 37. As often as found necessary, dead trees were by lawcut down on each side of public roads, that limbs hangingoverhead might not fall and injure travelers. At the ses-sion of 1704 an enlightened policy prevailed, and a greatnumber of acts, similar to those already mentioned, werepassed for the benefit of the people at large, and not for thepoliticians ; and the people themselves were builders, plant-ing broad and firm foundations, not for their days alone,but for future generations. 38. In 1704 the state-house at Annaj^olis was consumedby fire, together with most of the records of Anne ArundelCounty. In the same year an act was passed to rebuild itof brick, and it was finished in 1706. While building, thelegislature held its sessions in the house of Colonel EdwardDorsey. CHAPTER XII. 1704-1716. Conspiracy againstth
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