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THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



' 35. Immediately that any person has been declared a 

 useless vagrant, our Attorney shall cause commandment 

 to be given to him and his family to go forth and remove 

 two leagues distant from our forests, with a prohibition to 

 all persons to shelter them within the range of that dis- 

 tance ; this prohibition shall be published at morning mass, 

 and if any persons belonging to the parish be found to 

 have given them shelter in the parish after such publica- 

 tion, these shall be condemned to pay three hundred livres 

 of fine, and they shall, moreover, be held liable for all 

 penalties which shall be imposed on these idlers. 



' 36. We ordain that within three months after the 

 publication of these presents, there shall be drawn up in 

 each MaUrise an exact roll of the names of all the vagrants 

 and idlers who have appeared several times on previous 

 rolls, and these shall be required to withdraw immediately 

 two leagues from our forests, under pain of exposure in the 

 iron collar on three consecutive market days, and a months' 

 imprisonment. 



' 37. If the Gardes-Marteaux, or the Sergeants of the 

 Guard, mention their names in their minutes after they 

 have, in consequence of any of their previous reports, been 

 declared idle and vagabond, they shall be themselves con- 

 demned and compelled to make payment of the fines and 

 penalties for which they have been found liable. 



' 38. There shall be sent a statement containing the 

 name and description of all the rogues and vagabonds in 

 the Maitrise to the Registries of the other adjoining or 

 neighbouring Maitrises, and if it be found that any have 

 changed their name to escape recognition, We will that 

 they be condemned to the galleys if they be able to serve 

 in these ; and if not, to such other corporal and exemplary 

 punishment as shall be arbitrarily appointed by our Officers 

 of the forests. 



* 39. We enjoin on our Attorneys of Maitrises incessantly 

 to cause to be arrested rogues and vagabonds of the kind 

 referred to, and to cause them to be taken from the prisons 

 of the localities on the eighth day after their arrest, to be 



