114 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



' 40. If, during the using up of the purchases, any of the 

 reserve trees be torn or borne down by the winds and 

 storms, or by other accident, the merchants or their factors 

 shall leave them on the spot, and give immediate advice 

 of it to the Sergeant of the Guard, who shall be bound to 

 notify the Garde-Marteau to betake himself immediately 

 to the place in order to prepare an official report in regard 

 to it, which he shall present immediately to the Officers of 

 the Mattrise that others may be marked, all without 

 expense. 



' 47. The time for felling and vuidance, or bringing out 

 the wood, specified in the conditions of sale, being expired, 

 if there be wood on the purchase site felled or standing, 

 this shall be confiscated to our profit, and what is lying 

 forthwith transported out of the forest. 



1 48. The merchant-purchasers cannot include in their 

 purchase other woods than those which have been specified, 

 under pain of being punished as having stolen the woods 

 so included notwithstanding our prohibition. 



' 49. No merchant nor other person can cause work to 

 be carried on by night, nor on holidays, in the purchases 

 which are being felled nor take and carry out wood, 

 under pain of a hundred livres of penalty. 



' 50. Before exploiting the purchases, the merchants 

 can cause to be made, in presence of the Forest-Master, in 

 presence of the Garde-Marieau, and of the Sergeant of the 

 Guard, a souehetage, or survey of the stumps, by two experts, 

 of whom one shall be appointed by our Attorney of the 

 MaUrise, and the other by them, by whom shall be pre- 

 pared an official report without expense or fees, under 

 charge of exaction, reserving the day's wages of the 

 Soucheteurs, which shall be determined by the Master, 

 and paid by the Sergeant-Collector of Penalties; in which 

 official report shall be inserted the number of stumps 

 which have been found, their quality and size; and it 

 shall remain in the Registry of the Maitrise for reference, 

 and it shall afterwards serve in case of re-survey. 



'51, The merchants shall remain responsible for all 



