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mansions, named above, shall be made by the Sergeant- 

 Collectors of fines of the localities, who shall furnish every 

 year to the Grand-Master a statement of their receipts and 

 expenses, in which may be included, if need, an outlay to 

 the amount of three hundred livres by our Captains, or 

 their Lieutenants, for the extraordinary expenses of pro- 

 cess and justice of their Capitaineries / and they have 

 power to determine for the Guards of the Chase their 

 wages or fees for their reports, to be paid from the pro- 

 ceeds of fines, the balance of which shall be put into the 

 hand of the Receiver of our Woods or of our Domain, 

 to pay and account for as is done with the other money 

 under his management. We forbid to all Registrars, 

 Sergeants, Guards of the Chase, and other Officers to in- 

 termeddle in the collecting of the fines of the Chases ; 

 therefore there shall be observed in this respect what is 

 ordered in regard to the fines of our forests. 



' 41 . We suppress all offices of Provosts, Commissioners, 

 and Comptrollers, general and special, of the Chases, to- 

 gether with all Officers who may have been by them 

 appointed, under whatever title it may be, and we forbid 

 to the one and to the other to continue the exercise of 

 their former functions, under pain of a thousand livres 

 fine, and of all expenses, damages, and interests of parties. 



CHAPTER XXXI. Of Fishings. 



'Art. 1. We forbid to all persons, other than Master 

 Fishers received in the Courts of the Maitrises by the 

 Forest-Masters, or by their Lieutenants, to fish in streams 

 and navigable rivers, under pain of a fine of fifty livres, 

 and confiscation of the fish, nets, and other implements of 

 fishing, for the first offence, and, moreover, like confiscation 

 and heavier penalty if it be repeated. 



' 2. No one can be received as a Master Fisher under the 

 age of twenty. 



' 3. The Master Fishers of each town or port, where they 

 shall number eight or more, shall every year elect at an 



