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Gruries of their Departments, from ward to ward, from one 

 measured lot to another, informing himself in regard to the 

 conduct of the officers, surveyors, guards, usagers, borderers, 

 merchants, purchasers, and overseers in charge of the 

 waters and roads, rivers, canals, public ditches, and water- 

 ways ; they shall see the registers of our Attorneys, Gardes- 

 Marteau, Surveyors, and Sergeants of the Guard, also those 

 of the Registrars, and the minutes, reports, informations, 

 and other deeds relative to visitations, misdemeanours, 

 abuses, undertakings, usurpations, malversations, and con- 

 traventions of all kinds, both in regard to waters and 

 forests, and in regard to game and fishings ; see whether 

 the guards have made their reports, the attorneys have 

 done their diligence, and the officers done justice, and 

 make known defaults ; and to this end Sergeants, Gardes- 

 Marteau, and Forest-Masters shall be bound to represent 

 to them on the spot, the depredation of which they 

 have made a register, so as to test their diligence ; in 

 default of which they shall be personally condemned as 

 if they themselves had committed the depredation or 

 misdemeanour. 



'10. The Grand-Master shall attend the auction sales, 

 he shall appoint to officers and surveyors the places and 

 cantons in which to make surveys of places to be felled in 

 the following year, of which sites of sale he shall prepare 

 a formal report, and lodge a copy of this with the Registrar, 

 for the officers of the Maitrise, who shall be required to 

 conform strictly thereto, on pain of a fine of three thousand 

 livres against the whole body collectively of those who 

 have committed any contravention. 



'11. He shall be bound to send every year before the 

 month of June, to the officers of the Maitrises, his order 

 and mandement to make assietes or plans and inventories 

 of sites of felling for sales, containing the designation of 

 the triages or lots, and cantons specified in his said 

 report ; and also to send before the month of September 

 other mandements specifying the days of sales and 

 adjudications. 



