OF THE MARBLE TABLE. &c. 99 



' 4. If, however, there be an appeal from a judgment 

 given in one of our Maitrises touching the land of our 

 woods and forests in Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et Danger, and by 

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

 usufruct in the Maitrise, we will that it be taken direct to 

 our Courts of Parliament to which it pertains, and that 

 without passing through the intermediate Court of our 

 Marble Table. 



' 5. All appeals from judgments relating to usages, 

 abuses, depredations, and malversations committed in our 

 waters and forests, or in those of our subjects, shall be 

 judged in the Court of the Marble Table, established as 

 Court of Final Appeal, and that even though it should 

 issue in a sentence of Court-death or of capital punishment, 

 or of any other punishment whatsoever. 



' 6. The Grand-Master can assist in all audiences, judg- 

 ments, regulations, and deliberations which shall take 

 place at sittings of the Tables de Marbre; shall preside 

 there in the absence of the Judge, en dernier ressort, and 

 shall have a deliberative vote ; and all acts, sentences, and 

 judgments which shall be given there shall be entituled 

 by the name and quality of Grand-Masters, whether they 

 be present or absent. 



' 7. We leave our Attorneys free to prosecute in the 

 localities before our Officers of Waters and Forests, or to 

 bring before the Grand-Masters, or before the Courts of the 

 Marble Tables, the communities or individuals whom they 

 allege to have encroached or usurped on our waters, rivers, 

 woods, and forests, and other property to which we lay 

 claim ; on condition, however, that the Officers of the 

 Marble Table shall send down all the instructions to the 

 Court of the Maitrise, or to the nearest one, unless they see 

 fit to retain them, or to commit to one of their number 

 to prepare the instructions or go down and make inquest 

 in the locality. 



' 8. The Lieutenants and Officers of the Marble Table 

 cannot undertake any reformation if they have not been 

 commissioned to do so by us or by the Grand-Master j but 



