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veyors and Soucheteurs, to make the new survey and 

 souchetage of the purchase. 



2. ' When the Surveyors and Soucheteurs, with those first 

 employed, and those who have been appointed specially 

 for the verification, shaft have arrived on the ground, the 

 official report of the felling to be sold, of survey, of balli- 

 vage, or specification of reserved trees, and of souchetage 

 which shall have been made for the auction sale shall be 

 produced, and they shall reconnoitre the trees reserved by 

 the official reports and by the conditions of sale ; and to 

 this effect the Officers shall inspect carefully the purchases 

 from end to end in all their parts, the pied cornieres, parois, 

 lizieres and balliveaux, or the trees marking the angles, the 

 sides, and the margins of the allotment, and the trees 

 reserved for seed, so as to see that the lots have been well 

 cut, treated, cleared out, and freed of all encumbrance of 

 which they shall prepare their official reports, containing 

 details of encroachments, malversations, defaults, and 

 defects, which they may have seen, and of any deficiencies 

 of trees retained by the official reports of martellage and 

 ballivage. 



5. ' The official reports of the second souchetage shall be 

 examined and collated with those of the first, and any 

 difference which shall be found between them shall be 

 noted minutely and in detail ; to which effect there shall 

 be produced all the official reports of exoneration which 

 shall have been made for the merchants and their factors, 

 and there shall be observed any defaults and malversations 

 which may be found to have been committed in the course 

 of the use and exploitation of their purchases, of which 

 they have not been validly exonerated.' 



The circumstances in which this Ordinance was issued, 

 together with the Ordinance in its entirety, are detailed 

 in a volume to which reference has already been made, 

 French Forest Ordinance of 1669 ; with Historical Sketch 



