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which in regard to these have been, or shall be hereafter 

 determined in our Council, in regard to the possible yield 

 of our forests ; and where these shall be found to be so 

 devastated and ruined that they cannot yield that without 

 considerable prejudice and diminution of our revenue, the 

 value of the chauffage shall be paid in our Council, on 

 advice of the Grand- Masters, and entered in our accounts, 

 to be paid to them in money annually out of the proceeds 

 of sales, without diminution or reduction. 



'6. The religious houses, hospitals, and communities, 

 which have chau/ayes from us, or from our predecessors, in 

 alms, shall not have delivery of these in kind in future, 

 but only in money, the funds for which shall be entered in 

 our. accounts in the Chapter Of Fiefs and Alms. 



'7. There shall be made in our Council a general state- 

 ment of all the chauffage in kind or money coming under 

 the name of usage, and of the number and quality of 

 the woods, and from what forests they should be supplied, 

 copies of which shall be sent to the Chambre des Comptes and 

 to the Grand-Masters, who shall deposit extracts in the 

 Registries of the several Maitrises in which the forests 

 within their bounds are burdened, to be delivered accord- 

 ing to our statements and ordinances, without their having 

 power to make any augmentationj:hereof, under penalty of 

 privation of their office against directors, and of quadruple 

 restitution against those who have received any. 



' 8. If any of the Officers of our waters and forests be 

 convicted of having received or claimed from merchants 

 or their factors and commissioners any wood under pretext 

 of chau/age, or in any way whatever, to the prejudice of 

 our prohibitions, we order the Grand-Master to punish 

 them according to the rigour of our ordinances. 



' 9. The Officers shall not be paid the money which 

 shall be assigned to them by our statements in lieu of 

 their chauffage if they be not in service and in actual resi- 

 dence; therefore they shall be obliged to take to the 

 Receivers the certificates and attestations of the Grand- 

 Masters. 



