160 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



tolls on the aforesaid impediments in ports, bridges, 

 narrow passages, and sluices, shall be executed provision- 

 ally notwithstanding, and without prejudice to appeal. 



C 7. We order that of the legitimate dues established 

 by title and possession held above a hundred years, there 

 shall be made a tariff-bill of charges, which shall be put 

 up and attached on the posts at the entrances of the 

 bridges, passages, and narrows, or where the dues are 

 levied, without power otherwise to levy or exceed them 

 under any pretext, notwithstanding any contrary usage, 

 under pain of exemplary punishment against the contra- 

 veners of this, and also the restitution of fourfold to the 

 merchants, besides an arbitrary fine to us. 



CHAPTER XXX. Of the Chase. 



' Art. 1. The Ordinances of the kings, our predecessors, 

 in regard to the Chase, and especially those of the month 

 of June 1601 and July 1607, shall be observed in all their 

 provisions which we have not abrogated, and which con- 

 tain nothing contrary to these presents. 



' 2. We forbid to our Judges, and to all others, to con- 

 demn for anything relating to the Chase, whatever it may 

 be, if there be no other crime combined with it deserving 

 this penalty, notwithstanding Art. XIV. of the Ordinance 

 of 1601, which we expressly abrogate in this respect. 



' 3. We interdict to all persons, without distinction of 

 rank, of time, or of locality, the use of firearms, gun-stock, 

 or gun-barrel, and bamboo or hollowed stick, likewise to 

 carry such under whatever pretext it may be ; and to all 

 workmen to make or fashion them ; under pain against 

 private persons of fine of five hundred livres, besides con- 

 fiscation, for the first time, and corporal punishment for 

 the second, and against the workmen of corporal punish- 

 ment for the first time. 



' 4. We also make it to be forbidden to all persons to 

 hunt with fire, or to enter or remain over night in our 

 forests, woods, and shrubberies connected with them, or in 



