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livres for each horse, ox, or cow, a hundred sous for each 

 calf, and three livres for each sheep or ewe, doubled for 

 the second time, and for the third quadrupled, with 

 banishment from the forests against the herds and other 

 guards and leaders, for which in every case the masters, 

 fathers, heads of families, proprietors, farmers, and tenants 

 of the houses, and dwellers, shall be held responsible. 



' 11. No delay must take place in the sale of the beasts 

 taken in the act of trespass and confiscated, at their true 

 value to the last and highest bidder on the market day, at 

 the instance of our Attorneys of the Maitrises ; and if it 

 happen that through the influence of the owners there be 

 no bidders, our Attorneys shall prepare and present a 

 minute of the fact to the Masters or their Lieutenants ; 

 and the beasts shall be sent by them to the markets of 

 the towns which may be deemed most expedient for our 

 advantage and profit. 



'12. All private persons buying or collecting by day 

 herbage, acorns, or mast, of whatever class and age they 

 may be, or taking any away from the forests, bosques, 

 warrens, and bush, shall be condemned for the first time 

 to a fine namely, for a burden borne by themselves, a 

 hundred sous ; for a load on a horse or an ass, twenty 

 livres ; and for a load on a dray, forty livres ; the double 

 for a second offence, and for the third banishment from 

 the forests, and also from the province of the Maitrise, and 

 in every case the confiscation of the horses and drays 

 which may be found loaded. 



' 13. All persons who have cut, rooted up, or carried off 

 trees, branches, or leaves from our forests, woods, and 

 warrens, and from those of ecclesiastics, communities, or 

 private persons, for marriage feasts, festivals, and brother- 

 hood meetings, shall be punished by fine, and restitution, 

 damages, and compensation for loss, according to the size 

 and quality of the wood, as they would have been in any 

 other case of depredation. 



' 14. We forbid to the Officers to pronounce arbitrary 

 fines and punishments, or to pronounce less than are de* 



