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at their requisition and instance removed to the prisons of 

 the towns nearest to the place of the Maitrise where the 

 chain is wont to pass, to be attached thereto; which 

 removal of the prisoners shall be made by the vice-bailiffs, 

 criminal lieutenants of the short robe, or provosts of the 

 merchants, on the first communication which shall be 

 made to them at the requisition of our Attorneys of 

 Maitrises ; which thing we also enjoin on and to their 

 lieutenants, officers, and bowmen, under pain of loss of 

 their office; and the expenses and fees shall be paid 

 from the proceeds of fines and confiscations, according to 

 the determination of these which shall be made by the 

 Grand-Master. 



' 40. There shall not be taken away sand, earth, or other 

 material from within six toises from navigable rivers, under 

 pain of a hundred livres fine. 



'41. We declare the proprietorship of all streams and rivers 

 bearing boats on their waters, excepting that of structures and 

 manufactories, throughout our kingdom, and lands which 

 are subject to our orders, to constitute part of the domain 

 of our Crown, notwithstanding all titles and possessions to 

 the contrary, saving, however, rights of fishing, mills, ferry- 

 boats, and other usages which private persons may have 

 therein established by titles and valid possessions, in all 

 which they shall be maintained. 



' 42. No one, be he proprietor or contractor, can erect 

 mills, dams, sluices, fisheries, confined channels, walls, 

 barricades of trees, heaps of stones, earth, and facines, or 

 other obstructions hurtful to the flow of the waters, in the 

 streams and navigable and floatable rivers ; nor to throw 

 into them any ordure or filth, or to make collection of 

 such on the quays or banks, under pain of arbitrary fine. 

 We enjoin on all persons to remove such within three 

 months from the day of the publication of these presents ; 

 and if any be found existing after that time we will that 

 they forthwith be taken away, and removed at the instance 

 of our Attorneys of Maitrises, at the expense and cost of 

 those who may have made or caused them, under pain of 



