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contractors, usufructiers, and their receivers, or farmers, 

 being able to make any pretensions to them, or to any 

 fines which proceed from them. 



' 3. The Grand-Masters, making their visitations, shall 

 be bound to make mention in their minutes of all void 

 places not alienated or given under title of quit-rent or of 

 lease, which they shall have found within the enclosures 

 and in the heart of our forests, to be devoted under their 

 advice, to be re-sown and replenished, or have done what- 

 ever may be suitable to the condition of our affairs. 



' 4. All border inhabitants possessing woods adjacent to 

 our forests and shrubberies shall be bound to separate 

 them from these by a trench four feet wide and five feet 

 deep, which they shall maintain in this state, under pain 

 of their woods being joined to ours. 



'5. Our Officers of the Maitrise, making their visits, shall 

 make mention in their minutes of the state of the 

 boundaries and trenches between us and the borderers, 

 and repair all usurpations and changes recognised as 

 having been made since their last visitation ; they shall 

 likewise make mention in their minute of the following 

 visitation, of the re-establishment of things in their first 

 state, and of the judgments which they have pronounced 

 against culprits, under pain of being conjointly and 

 severally held responsible for these in their own names. 



' 6. We forbid all persons to plant wood within a hundred 

 perches of our forests without our express permission, 

 under pain of a fine of five hundred livres, and of confisca- 

 tion of their woods, which shall be uprooted or felled. 



1 7. Our Attorneys in Maitrises shall have communicated 

 to them, by the hands of the published promoters of sales, 

 all minutes of proclamations, handbills, and advertisements 

 of all sales which shall be made in future of houses, lands, 

 woods, and other heritages situated within the enclosure, 

 or on the banks, or within a hundred perches of our 

 forests, woods, and shrubberies, which documents for this 

 purpose shall be delivered in the Registry of the Maitrises 

 at least fifteen days before the adjudication of the decreet, 



