Start with the mill’s joint scale slips and the accord’s water-use clause. It is the source used to make a decision about how two settlements can share a mill without turning each dry week into a dispute over priority; it is not the decision itself. The rule only works if the source describes the conditions at the shared flour table at the north border mill.
The latest count is 9 mill turns recorded under the shared water allotment; the prior file listed 13. A new complaint or proposal has been entered under a dated docket. The difference is a signal to check, not a verdict about who is right.
The disputed point is practical: The accord assigns turns by season; both delegations say the other has carried forward last season’s exception as a rule. One side relies on the posted total, while the other points to a marked stone channel that feeds the mill only during the agreed hours.
The risk of reading the file too broadly is that an entry becomes a conclusion. Varda Kin checked the mill’s joint scale slips and the accord’s water-use clause against the field notes. The method is to trace the route from the first signal to the final gate receipt; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them.
Next: The joint table will publish the turn schedule with every exception dated. A useful update will publish the method, exceptions and review date with the number.
