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windfalls, and stolen trees which have been sold in the 

 course of the year, and of the auctions which have been 

 held of panage and mast; which statement shall contain 

 the sums in detail of each kind, and the names of the 

 purchasers and cautioners, which shall be signed by the 

 Lieutenant, our Attorney, the GarJe-Marteau, and Registrar 

 of the Maitrise, and which they shall deliver to the Receiver- 

 General of the woods, if there be one settled there, or other- 

 wise, to the Receiver-General of the domain, to make 

 recovery of the same ; and it shall be sent to the Grand- 

 Master before the fifteenth of December, that it may be 

 embodied in the general statement which he is required to 

 make of the produce of our forests, to be by him sent to our 

 Council by the Comptroller-General of our finances ; all 

 under pain, against the Masters, of suspension from office, 

 and arbitrary fine. 



' 1 J . They can also visit, accompanied as stated, at all 

 times they may judge necessary, or be ordered by the 

 Grand-Master, the woods and forests within the bounds 

 of their Maitrise belonging to the prelates and other 

 ecclesiastics, commanders, communities, as well regular 

 as secular, infirmaries and hospitals, and holders of mort- 

 main, to prepare minutes in the same manner, and under 

 the same pains as we have prescribed in the case of ours. 



' 12. They shall be held bound to send also to the 

 Grand-Masters the minutes of the general visitations, 

 signed by them and other officers of the Maitnse, within 

 a month after they have been prepared, under pain of 

 fine of three hundred livres against the Master, along 

 with loss of wages, which the Receiver of the woods or 

 of the domain cannot pay or expend on their demand, 

 but only on the reported certificate of the Grand-Masters 

 that the minutes have been sent to them. 



CHAPTER V. The Lieutenant. 



'Art. 1. The Lieutenant shall be a graduate, and shall, 

 in the absence of the Master, discharge the same functions 



