OF USHERS, GUARDS, SERGEANTS, &c. 91 



our forests in the place of suspended Sergeants of the 

 Guard, or deceased or disabled to do or perform there the 

 same functions, by order of the Grand-Master, or, in his 

 absence, by order of the Officers of the Maitrise ; and 

 they shall enjoy the same privileges and exemptions as 

 as are granted to the Sergeants of the Guard, and the 

 same wages in proportion to the time that they serve in 

 the forests in the place of those for whom they are 

 substituted. 



' 2. None shall be received as Sergeants of the Guard 

 without the testimony of our Attorney in the Maitrise to 

 their life and conduct, and who are not able to read and 

 write, even though they may have had experience in time 

 past in the presence of those who may be now officers of 

 the court. 



' 3. We suppress the Sergens Traversiers, Masters, Guards, 

 Routiers, and Sergens Dang?reux in all our waters, woods, 

 and forests, save to provide such indemnity to them as 

 may be reasonable ; and in their place we will that there 

 be established General Mounted Guards of our Waters, 

 Forests, Woods in Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et Dangtr, and held 

 by title of appanage, co-proprietorship, sale contract, and 

 usufruct in the Mattrite t who shall wear helmets bearing 

 our arms, that they may be recognisable ; and they shall be 

 paid reasonable wages, according to statements which shall 

 be approved in our Council, on the advice of the Grand- 

 Master. 



' 4. The Mounted General Guards of our waters and 

 forests shall move about continuously in the forests and 

 woods and along the rivers, to keep the ordinary Guards at 

 their duty ; following the orders and directions which shall 

 be given to them by the Grand-Masters, each in his depart- 

 ment. They shall lend their main force to private 

 Guards ; shall make all kinds of captures, and reports to 

 the Masters in the districts in which depredations have 

 been committed, in the same way as other Guards do. 

 They shall be in the suite of the Grand-Master in such 

 numbers and such times as these may think proper. They 



