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possessions to the contrary which we have abrogated and 

 do abrogate, and we will that in the Registry of each 

 Maitrise, and other Court of Justice, there shall be placed a 

 standard of the measure above described. 



' 15. If all our forests and woods, and in those of eccles- 

 iastics, private persons, and others, referred to in the 

 preceding article, there shall not be made any delivery of 

 firewood, be it in case of sale or of deliverance of chauffage, 

 by other measure than the cord, which shall be eight feet 

 long, four high, and three feet and a-half deep, including 

 the dressing : the faggot-wood shall be two feet long, and 

 the faggots from seventeen to eighteen inches thick, 

 abolishing rotters, mesures, monies, loads, burdens, voyes, 

 and all other measures different from those now prescribed. 



'16. There shall be left and preserved at the Registry 

 of each Maitrise the charts, diagrams, and descriptions 

 approved by the Grand-Master of our woods, shrubberies, 

 and forests, and of those held by co-proprietorship, Grurie, 

 Grairie, Tiers et Danger, appanage, sale-contract, and usu- 

 fruct, which are within the bounds of their district, and 

 also in the Registries of the Marble Tables, all at the in- 

 stance of the Forest-Masters and of our Attorneys, under 

 pain of withdrawal of their wages. 



' 17. All huts built of stakes within the circuit or 

 border, or within half a league from the forest, by rogues 

 and vagrants, shall be immediately demolished, and these 

 shall be prohibited from building in future within a dis- 

 tance of two leagues from our woods and forests, under 

 pain of corporal punishment. 



' 18. We forbid to all persons to cause' to be constructed 

 any chateaux, farms, and houses, within the enclosure, on 

 the borders, and within half a league from our forests, 

 without hope of any remission or reduction of the penalties 

 of fine, and confiscation of the ground and of the buildings. 



' 19. We forbid to merchant-buyers, usagers, and all 

 other persons to make ashes in our forests, or in those of 

 ecclesiastics or communities, and to usufructiers and our 

 officers to permit it to be done, under pain of confisca- 



