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or in this proportion, under pain of suspension and an 

 arbitrary fine, to be determined by the Grand-Master; 

 and if three times such an error have been committed 

 by him, he shall be discharged, and declared incapable of 

 acting as Surveyor. 



11. 'The official report of the Surveyor being in the 

 Registry, he shall cause it to be delivered in like 

 manner to the Garde-Marteau for the martellage or mark- 

 ing of the trees, which he shall make in presence of the 

 officers of the Mattrise, and to this effect the royal stamp 

 shall be delivered up to the Garde-Marteau by those who 

 have the keys, and he shall proceed with the officers to the 

 triages in which the sales shall have been allocated, and by 

 their advice he shall select ten trees in each arpent, of 

 lofty growth, of great vigour, and of fine, proportions, of 

 oak, and, if possible, of good wood and competent size, 

 which he shall mark as lalliveaux or reserved trees, with 

 the royal stamp, and together with them the corner trees 

 and the trees marking out the boundary, and forthwith 

 after the martellage the stamp shall be brought back and 

 shut up in its case. 



CHAPTER XVI. Of Recollemens, or Re-Surveys of Fellings 

 after the Fellings. 



1. ' The recollemens of all the purchases shall be made, at 

 latest six weeks after the time for clearing away and 

 bringing out the produce has expired, by the Forest- 

 Master, in presence of our Attorney, the Garde-Marteau, 

 or Keeper of the Stamp, the Registrar, the Sergeant of 

 the Guard, the Surveyor, and the Soucheteur, who shall 

 have made the survey and the souchetage, or enumeration 

 and specification of existant stumps, and of the Lieutenant, 

 if so seems to him good, but without bis interfering, 

 excepting in the absence of the Forest-Master ; and to 

 this end the merchant-purchasers shall be summoned 

 eight days before to meet on that day with other Sur- 



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