Chap. 45.—An ACT to amend an Act entitled an Act to amend and re-
enact Section 12, Chapter 68, of the Code of Virginia, 1878, so a:
more Effectually to require Millers to Grind, for Toll, all Grain
brought to their Mills for the Consumption of the person Bringing or
Sending it, or his Family.

Approved February 17, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
twelve, of chapter sixty-three, of the Code of Virginia, edi-
tion of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 12. At every mill which grinds grain, whether the same
be established under an order of the court or not, there shall
be well and sufficiently ground all grain brought to the mill
for the consumption, when ground, of the person bringing or
sending it or his family, and in due time as the same is
brought. All clean wheat of a merchantable quality, weigh-
ing not less than sixty pounds to the bushel, brought to the
mill as aforesaid, shall be ground as the party bringing the
same shall direct, into so much of the best extra, superfine.
or family flour as the wheat will produce; and there shall
not be taken for the toll more than one-eighth part of any
grain of which the remaining part is ground into the extra
or family flour, nor of any gtain of which the remaining
part is ground into super flour or meal, nor moré than one-
sixteenth of any grain of which the remaining part is ground
into hominy or malt. If, however, any mill cannot, without
great inconvenience, grind wheat into the best flour for toll,
as aforesaid, the owner of said mill may elect to exchange
flour for wheat at the following rates, viz: one barrel of super
flour for four and a half bushels of wheat; one barrel of extra
flour for five bushels of wheat, and one barrel of best family
flour for five and a half bushels of wheat, the quality of tho
flour to be determined by inspection, if required. If, at any
mill, there be a violation of this section, in any respect, the
proprietor thereof shall, for every such violation, forfeit to

the party injured ten dollars; but with these provisions: that P
the proprietor shall not be obliged to run more than one pair
of stones to grind grain brought to his mill for the consump-
tion of the persons bringing or sending it or their families,
and that such proprietor may grind grain for the consump-
tion of his family in preference to that of others.”

2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. _—c