OF THE WOODS IX GRURIE, GRAIRIE, &c. 135 



' 14. There shall be made a register, prepared by the 

 Master and our Attorney, of all sales, auctions, and verifi- 

 cations, which all the Officers present shall sign, together 

 with the possessors and their Attorneys; and the merchants 

 and their factors, if they know how to sign. 



' 15. There shall be in each Maitrise one or more Ser- 

 geants, according to the number and distances of the woods 

 held in co-proprietorship, and in Grurie, Grairie, and Tiers 

 et Danger to keap ward, and make report of depredations, 

 abuses, and malversations, the same as is proposed for our 

 forests. 



'1(5. The possessors cannot take any live tree without 

 the mark and delivery of the Grand-Master, such tree 

 shall be instantly felled and sold for our profit, at the price 

 of the value of the proportion which is our right. 



1 17. When there shall be ordinary sales the possessors 

 may take their ckaujfage or firewood from their part of the 

 sale ; but if there have not been an open sale no chau/agc 

 can be taken except in dead wood, or dead trees of the 

 nine kinds specified* 



1 18. The Grand-Masters shall in each year visit all the 

 woods of this class ; they shall cause to be shown to them 

 the registers held, and judgments pronounced on depreda- 

 tions and malversations, with a statement of sales and 

 verifications ; and they shall make reformations in these 

 woods when this they judge necessary. 



1 19. The Forest-Masters, or their Lieutenants, shall be 

 obliged to make a visitation, along with our Attorneys, at 

 least once a year ; the Gardes-Marteaux, every six months ; 

 and the Sergeants without intermission, of which visita- 

 tions they shall make minutes, each of what he has himself 

 seen, and these they shall without loss of time deposit in 

 the Registry of the Maitrise ; all under pain of deprivation 

 of their charges, and of being held personally responsible 

 for depredations, abuses, and malversations. 



' 20. We ordain that within six months after the day of 

 the publication of these presents there shall be made a 

 survey, diagram, and description of all of the forests, woods, 



