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proprietors it is forbidden under any pretext whatsoever, 

 under pain of exemplary punishment. 



' 9. The trees marking the margin and the side of the 

 plot shall be marked with the royal stamp and the stamp 

 of the Surveyor on one side, differing in this from the 

 corner trees, which shall be marked on each side facing a 

 lot for sale. 



' 10. The Surveyors can neither measure more nor less 

 in each triage than that which shall have been prescribed 

 to them by the Grand-Master for allotment, under pretext 

 of rendering the outline more regular, or for any other 

 consideration whatsoever, to such an extent that the 

 reduction or addition shall exceed one arpent for twenty, 

 or in this proportion, under pain of suspension and an 

 arbitrary fine, to be determined by the Grand-Master ; 

 and if three times such an error have been committed 

 by him, he shall be discharged and declared incapable of 

 acting as Surveyor. 



' 11. The official report of the Surveyor being in the 

 Registry, he shall cause it to be delivered in like 

 manner to the Garde-Marteau for the martellage or mark- 

 ing of the trees, which he shall make in presence of the 

 Officers of the Mattrise, and to this effect the royal stamp 

 shall be delivered up to the Garde-Marteau by those who 

 have the keys, and he shall proceed with the officers to the 

 triages in which the sales shall have been allocated, and by 

 their advice he shall select ten trees in each arpent, of 

 lofty growth, of great vigour, and of fine proportions, of 

 oak, and if possible of good wood and competent size, 

 which he shall mark as balliveaux or reserved trees with 

 the royal stamp, and together with them the corner trees 

 and the trees marking out the boundary, and forthwith 

 after the martellage the stamp shall be brought back and 

 shut up in its case. 



' 12. When the auction sales of fellings in our woods 

 have been made, all the balliveaux, ancients et modernes, or 

 reserved trees of older growth, those newly marked, and 

 those reserved in former fellings which are therein, to 



