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required in their district, as well as in those held in 



Orurie, Grairie, Tiers et Danger, and by title of appanage, 



co-proprietorship, sale contract, and usufruct in the 



Maitrise, in our woods, grounds, and domains, and the 



same for those of ecclesiastics, communities, and holders 



of mortmain, together with all that may, for whatever 



reason, be ordered by authority of Courts of Justice. This 



they shall do preferentially to all other Surveyors, on pain 



of nullification of what may be done by others ; but with 



permission to private persons to avail themselves of all 



acts, measurements, and voluntary deliverances of other 



Surveyors selected at their option, as may seem to them 



good. 



4. ' The Surveyor of the Grand-Master shall be bound 

 to follow him when ordered, and to make by his orders all 

 allocations of sales, surveys, measurements, and verifica- 

 tions, plans, diagrams, determinations of fellings, and 

 recognaisances of bounds, borders, and ditches, and 

 generally all acts pertaining to his profession ; and to 

 keep a good and faithful register, of which he shall 

 deposit a duplicate, with plans and diagrams, in the 

 hands of the Grand-Master or the Registrar of the 

 Maitrise, eight days after the completion of the work, and 

 obtain a receipt for it, under pain of suspension the first 

 time, and deprivation of office on repetition. 



8. f lf any Surveyor have, by connivance, favour, or 

 corruption, concealed a removal or alteration of boundaries, 

 have suffered, or have himself made, a change in corner 

 trees, he shall, for the very first case, be deprived of office, 

 condemned to a fine of five hundred livres, and be 

 banished for ever from our forests, unless the Officers, 

 under pain of possible loss of office, mitigate or alter the 

 sentence. 



CHAPTER XV. Of Sales, Fellings, &c. 



1. ' There can be no sale made in our forests, woods, 

 or thickets, excepting in accordance with the regulations 



