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which shall be ordered in our Council, or in letters patent, 

 formally and duly registered in our Courts of Parliament 

 and Chambre des Comptes, under penalty of restitution of 

 four-fold the value of the wood sold, against the pur- 

 chasers, and against the officials ordering such sales, the 

 loss of their office. 



4. 'The Grand-Masters shall every year, before the 

 auction sales of our woods, make a visitation of the lots 

 appointed to be sold, in making which they shall be 

 accompanied by the Surveyor thereto appointed, to whom 

 they shall point out the woods to be allotted for sale in the 

 following year ; and they shall mark out for him in what 

 form the boundaries shall be made for our greatest profit 

 and advantage, of which they shall prepare an official 

 report, which shall be signed by the Forest-Master or his 

 Lieutenant, our Attorney, the Garde-Marteau, and the 

 Sergeants of the Guard. A copy of this shall be delivered 

 to the Surveyor to serve as his guide, and to this he shall 

 be bound to conform himself, under pain of suspension or 

 declaration of his incapacity for the office ; another shall 

 be sent to the Record Office of the Maitrise, and fifteen 

 days after his return to the principal town of his depart- 

 ment, he shall lodge a general statement of all the allot- 

 ments in the Record Office of the Marble Table for 

 reference. 



5. ' Every year the Grand-Master shall make a copy of 

 his mandements and ordinances for the allotments of the 

 ordinary sales of our woods and forests, conformably to the 

 regulations ordered in our Council, where he shall enter 

 the number of arpents or acres, and the kind of wood to be 

 sold ; and in which he shall designate in detail the wards 

 and trigonometrically measured lots, one or more of which 

 may be embraced in a ward, so far as shall be practicable, 

 following the observations which shall have been made in 

 the official reports after visitation, which he shall send to 

 the Officers of the Maitrise, before the first of June in each 

 year, who shall be bound forthwith to assemble and 



