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any matters other than the definitive sentences pronounced 

 on sight of the documents. 



'11. If by fraud or otherwise the Registrar omit to make 

 use of any articles of the minutes of visitations and reports 

 in his registers, and the sentences in the rolls, he shall be 

 bound to pay quadruple the amount to our profit for the 

 first time, and be dismissed from office on repetition. 



' 12. The Registrar leaving office shall be bound to 

 replace in the press placed in the chamber of the Maitrise 

 for the purpose, the registers and all other papers of the 

 registrar y, of which there shall be prepared by the Master 

 or his Lieutenant, and our Attorney, an inventory which 

 shall be signed by the Registrar, with a declaration that 

 neither of fraud or otherwise has he retained any docu- 

 ment ; and the whole shall be put into the hands of the 

 Registrar or Commissioner who succeeds him, who shall 

 take upon himself by writing at the foot of the same 

 inventory, the charge of it, nor shall his heirs or represen- 

 tatives be able to retain any documents under any pretext 

 whatsoever, and so on successively; but they shall be paid 

 half of the emoluments of any business which may be in 

 process handed over to the new Registrar, who shall retain 

 the other half for his own salary and those of his clerks 

 and commissioners 



' 13. The widows, children, or Heirs of a Registrar 

 remain responsible for the registers and documents of the 

 registry until they have been thus formally disposed of; 

 and in case of retention, they shall be constrained by any 

 means, even by force or bodily constraint, immediately to 

 deliver them up at the instance of our Attorneys, under 

 pain of being held responsible in their own names. 



CHAPTER IX. Of Gruyers, or Officers in charge of Woods held in 

 Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et Danger, and by Title of Appanage, Co- 

 Proprietorship, Sale-Contract, and Usufruct in the Maitrise. 



'Art. 1. The Gruyers shall have a fixed place in which 

 to hold their court in each week, at a certain day and hour, 



