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sites and subjects of sales, martellages, verifications, and 

 receptions of works, shall be deposited and enregistered 

 both in the Registries of the Grand-Master and of the 

 Maitrise that recourse to it may be had when necessary. 



'11. The same fines, penalties, and condemnations 

 ordered by these presents for our waters and forests, shall 

 hold good for the waters and forests of ecclesiastics, com- 

 munities, and holders of mortmain, also for the chase and 

 fishing, in virtue of which parties may be summoned to 

 appear before the Grand-Masters and Officers without any 

 person of what quality soever having a right or being 

 allowed to decline the jurisdiction. 



' 12. Our Officers may visit, when it seems to them 

 good, without expense or dues, the waters, woods, and 

 forests of ecclesiastics, communities, commanders, hospitals, 

 and communities ; and if they find malversations, abuses, 

 or contraventions of the ordinance, they shall make minutes 

 of the same, which shall be attended to by the Grand- 

 Master having cognisance of the matter. 



CHAPTER XXV. Of Woods, Meadows, Marshes, Pastures, 

 Fisheries and other Property belonging to Communities 

 and Inhabitants of Parishes. 



* Art. 1. All woods appertaining to parishes and com- 

 munities of inhabitants shall be surveyed, figured, and 

 bounded within six months, at the instance of the Syndics, 

 and the minutes and charts or diagrams shall be forthwith 

 taken to the Registrary of the Maitrises; and we enjoin on 

 our Attorneys all diligence to see that this be done. 



' 2. The fourth part of communal woods shall be reserved 

 and allowed to grow as timber forests on the best ground, 

 and in the most convenient places, by the appointment and 

 mensuration of the Grand-Master or of the Officers of the 

 Maitrise by his orders. 



' 3. What remains after these reserves have been made 

 shall be felled regularly as coppice at least every ten years, 

 with the marking and retention of seventeen balliveaux of 



