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Court of the Maitrise, to be transcribed into the register 

 which is kept by the Registrar, and paraphed by the 

 Master and by our Attorney. 



' 3. The Officers shall assign to each parish, hamlet, 

 village, or community, being usagers, a particular spot of 

 land, the most convenient possible, to which, and in enclos- 

 able places only, the cattle may be taken and guarded 

 apart, without their intermixing with herds from other 

 places, under pain of the confiscation of the cattle, and of 

 arbitrary fine against the usagers, and privation of office 

 against the Officers who may permit or suffer the contrary 

 to take place; and all deliverances thereanent shall be 

 made without expense or any claim of dues, under pain of 

 charge of exaction. 



' 4. The declaration of the locations, and of the liberty 

 to send cattle there, shall be published after sermon in 

 the morning Mass of the usager parishes on one of the 

 Sundays in the month of February, at the instance of our 

 Attorney; and the certificate of the cure, or of the Ser- 

 geant of his diligence, shall be lodged with the Registrar 

 of the Maitrise, and enregistered there free of expense ; all 

 with prohibition to the usagers and to all others to send 

 their beasts to pasture in other places, under pain of con- 

 fiscation, and of deprivation of their right of usage. 



' 5. The customs, franchises, usages, and pannages, shall 

 be limited to the fiefs and usager houses alone, following 

 the statements made by the Commissioners who have 

 travelled in this matter, with a view to reformations, or 

 those which have subsequently been prepared by the 

 Grand-Masters in regard to Maitrises in which this had 

 not been done. The number of cattle shall, with like 

 power, be regulated by the Grand- Masters, regard being 

 had by them to the condition and capabilities of the 

 forests. 



'6. All the animals belonging to the usagers of the 

 same parish or hamlet having right of usage, shall be 

 marked with the same mark, an imprint of which shall be 

 lodged at the registry, before they can be sent to the 



