OF FELLINGS, SALES OF WOOD, &c. 103 



' 3. All adjudications or auction sales of our woods, be it 

 timber trees or coppice, shall be made in the Audience 

 Halls in which are held the ordinary Courts Des Eaux et 

 Forets, and they cannot be held elsewhere, under pain of 

 being held null and void, and a penalty of ten thousand 

 livres against the Grand-Master, or any other who shall 

 have contravened this law. \ 



'4. The Grand-Masters shall every year, before the auction 

 sales of our woods, make a visitation of the lots 

 appointed to be sold, in making which they shall be 

 accompanied by the Surveyor thereto appointed, to whom 

 they shall point out the woods to be allotted for sale in the 

 following year; and they shall mark out for him in what form 

 the boundaries shall be made for our greatest profit and 

 advantage, of which they shall prepare an official report, 

 which shall be signed by the Forest-Master or his Lieu- 

 tenant, our Attorney, the Garde-Marteau, and the 

 Sergeants of the Guard. A copy of this shall be delivered 

 to the Surveyor to serve as his guide, and to this he shall 

 be bound to conform himself, under pain of suspension or 

 declaration of his incapacity for the office ; another shall 

 be sent to the Record Office of the MaUrise, and fifteen 

 days after his return to the principal town of his depart- 

 ment, he shall lodge a general statement of all the allot- 

 ments in the Record Office of the Marble Table for 

 reference. 



' 5. Every year the Grand-Master shall make a copy of 

 his mandements and ordinances for the allotments of the 

 ordinary sales of our woods and forests, conformably to the 

 regulations ordered in our Council, where he shall enter 

 the number of arpents or acres, and the kind of wood to be 

 sold; and in which he shall designate in detail the wards and 

 ^triganometrically measured lots, one or more of which 

 may be embraced in a ward, so far as shall be practicable, 

 following the observations which shall have been made in 

 the official reports after visitation, which he shall send to 

 the Officers of the Maitrise, before the first of June in each 

 year, who shall be bound forthwith to assemble and together 



