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 29 mill turns recorded under the shared water allotment; the prior file listed 27. 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.
