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depredations which shall be committed within hearing of 

 the axe in the environs of their purchases, estimated for 

 woods of fifty years' growth and upwards at fifty poles, and 

 twenty-five poles for those of fifty years and under, if 

 the merchants or their factors do not report them. 



' 52. The transport, passage, carriage, or flotage of the 

 wood by land or water cannot be hindered or stopped 

 under any pretexts of rights of way, transport dues, pon- 

 tonage, or other, by any private person whatever, under 

 pain of answering for all expense, damage, and loss of the 

 merchants, save by those who claim to have rights to levy 

 dues, which they have brought before the Grand-Master, 

 and shown him that these pertain to them. 



CHAPTER XVI. Of 'Recollemens,' or Re-surveys of Fellings 

 after the Fellings. 



'Art. 1. The recollemens of all the purchases shall be 

 made at latest six weeks after the time for clearing away 

 and bringing out the produce has expired by the Forest- 

 Master, in presence of our Attorney, the Garde-Marteau, or 

 Keeper of the Stamp, the Registrar, the Sergeant of the 

 Guard, the Surveyor, and the Soucketeurwho shall have made 

 the survey and the souchetage or enumeration and specifi- 

 cation of existant stumps, and of the Lieutenant, if so 

 seems to him good, but without his interfering, excepting 

 in the absence of the Forest- Master; and to this end the 

 merchant-purchasers shall be summoned eight days before 

 to meet on that day with other Surveyors and Soucheteur*, 

 to make the new survey and souchetage of the purchase. 



' 2. When the Surveyors and Soucheteurs, with those 

 first employed and those who have been appointed specially 

 for the verification, shall have arrived on the ground, the 

 official report of the felling to be sold, of survey, of balli- 

 vage, or specification of reserved trees, and of souchetage 

 which shall have been made for the auction sale shall be 

 produced, and they shall reconnoitre the trees reserved by 

 the official reports and by the conditions of sale ; and to 



