136 THE FORESTS OF FKANCE. 



and shrubberies in which we have a right, as well by co- 

 proprietorship as by Grurie, Grairie, and Tiers et Danger , by 

 the Surveyor of the Maitrise at the instance of our Attor- 

 ney, each in his province, and in the presence of the parties 

 interested, of the Garde-Marteau or the Gruyer, and of the 

 Sergeant of the Guard, of which the minute and diagram 

 shall be enregistered in the Registry. 



' 21. The Masters, or, in their absence, the Lieutenants, 

 shall also, with our Attorney, make a minute of the num- 

 ber, situation, and contents of the woods of this class, with 

 statements of the kind and age of the woods with which 

 they are planted, and of the rights which we have in them, 

 and they shall sign and deposit the whole in the Registry 

 of the Maitrise ; and they shall send also copies of this to 

 the Grand-Master, who shall make from these a general 

 statement of his department, a copy of which he shall send 

 to our Council by the hand of the Comptroller-General of 

 our Finances, and another to the Registry of the Marble 

 Table. 



1 22. All the expenses of the Surveyor's diagrams and 

 descriptions shall be taxed by the Grand-Master definitely 

 for each wood, and paid out of the gross price of the first 

 sale which shall be made, on the average of which the 

 burden shall be borne by us and by the possessors in just 

 proportion to our different interests. 



' 23. If it be found from the minutes that there have 

 been any usurpations or clearances made without our 

 express permission, the authors of these shall be condemned 

 to re-establish everything in its original condition, and to 

 pay fines, restitution, damages, and compensation for loss, 

 following the rigour of our ordinances. 



CHAPTEB XXIV. Of Woods Belonging to Ecclesiastics and 

 Holders of Mortmain. 



' Art. 1. All priests, abbots, priors, officers, and ecclesi- 

 astical communities, both secular and regular, stewarda, 



