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all persons to maltreat them or trouble them in the dis- 

 charge of their duty, under pain of rigorous prosecution 

 according to our ordinances. 



'14. If it be found that they have abused the use of 

 their arms, hunted or shot any game of whatsoever kind 

 in our forests or in the open country, they shall be punished 

 by fine, deprivation of office, or banishment from the 

 forests, or even corporal punishment if condemned thereto. 



' 15, The General Sergeants and Sergeants of the Guard 

 of our woods and forests, rivers, open councry, and 

 reserves, can do no official work but for the waters, forests, 

 and the chase, under pain of being held unfaithful ; and 

 we revoke to this extent all letters and duplicates which 

 we may have granted to them. 



CHAPTER XL Of Surveyors. 



Art. 1. There shall be selected and commissioned in each 

 department, a Surveyor, a man of experience and tried 

 probity, to accompany the Grand-Master while he is on 

 his visitations, auction sales, and reformations, and under 

 his orders to make all surveys, measurements, and ordinary 

 verifications, and those of reformation ; and two others 

 shall be appointed in each bailliwick or Maitrise. 



' 2. They shall only be accepted on testimony to their 

 good life and behaviour, and they shall, before they enter 

 on their duties, give security of a thousand livres, which 

 shall be taken by the Grand- Master as assurance against 

 abuses or malversations which they may commit in their 

 work. They shall make of all fellings to be sold a figured 

 plan, on which they shall indicate the corner trees, with 

 their marks, the partition and boundary trees, with a 

 statement of their number, quality, and all the marks 

 upon them, the distance from one to another of the 

 corner trees, and the outline of the felling, both in straight 

 lines and in angles, and all the circumstances necessary to 

 serve for the recognisance or conservation of all the trees 

 reserved. 



