OF FELLINGS, SALES OF WOOD, &c. 10? 



excepting by the hands of the Receiver, under pain of 

 fourfold restitution and suspension from their office. 



' 17. The days for the auction sales having been inti- 

 mated by the Grand-Masters to the Officers of the 

 Maitiises, they shall cause announcement of them to be 

 made, and our Attorney shall be bound to send forth- 

 with to the usual place proclamation bills stating the 

 number of arpents, the situation, the quality, the reserves, 

 the day, the place, the hour, and before whom the sales 

 shall be made. 



' 18. The day following such publication, the Hussiers 

 and Sergeants who shall have been engaged in making 

 the publications and posting the bills, shall be bound to 

 deliver to our Attorney official reports signed by them 

 and by their Recors or assistants, with the certificates 

 of the cures and vicars of the parishes, to be produced 

 and credibly avouched before the auction of the sales, in 

 presence of the Grand-Master, or of the Commissioner who 

 shall have been deputed to attend thereto ; and the cures 

 and vicars shall be bound to give their certificates free of 

 charge, under pain of a hundred livres penalty, payable by 

 seizure of their temporalities. 



' 19. There shall be at least eight free days between the 

 final publication and the auction. 



' 20. All persons shall be allowed to bid ; if, however, a 

 bidder be notoriously insolvent, the Receivers of our 

 woods and of the domain can demand of him the names 

 of his cautioners ; and if he have none, the Receiver shall 

 at the sale give his opinion or advice to the Grand-Master 

 to arrange in the case as by him shall be considered well. 

 ' 21. There cannot in future any Ecclesiastics, Gentle- 

 men, Governors of cities and places, Captains of chateaux 

 and Royal mansions, the Lieutenants and Officers of these, 

 Magistrates of Police and of Finance discharging the duties 

 of Judges or of Attorneys in our Courts of Justice, become 

 purchasers, directly or in concert with others, of the sales 

 which shall be made of our woods, either in whole or in 

 part, nor can they take reconveyance of these, or become 



