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aad be placed every three months in the hands of the 

 Sergeant-Collector, who shall be bound the next day after 

 the tirst Audience day of the month to report his diligence, 

 and to render account to the Forest-Master, at the instance 

 of our Attorney, to be forthwith prosecuted as may appear 

 meet, all under pain of their being held responsible in 

 their own names. 



' 4. They cannot give judgment either in Audience or in 

 the Council Chambers, nor can they liberate prisoners, or 

 deliver up animals which have been seized, excepting on 

 the conclusion arrived at by our Attorney, and the advice 

 of the Lieutenant in the Mattrise, and that of the Garde- 

 Marteau, if they be present at the sitting. 



* 5. They shall so cut and page the registers of our 

 Attorneys, Gardes-Mart eau, Gruyers, Registrars, Sergeants, 

 and Warders of our forests, woods, and shrubberies, and of 

 woods in Grurie, Grairie^ Tiej^s et Dangers, and held in appan- 

 age, mortgage, and in usufruct, so that nothing can be 

 added thereto or taken away. 



* 6. They shall every six months make a general visi- 

 tation of all our forests, woods, and shrubberies, woods 

 subject to Grurie, Grairie, Segrairie, Tiers et Danger, and of all 

 those held in co-proprietorship, appanage, mortgage, and 

 usufruct, together with the navigable and flotage rivers in 

 their Maitrises, assisted by the Gardes-Marteaux and Ser- 

 geants, v/ithout the exclusion of the Lieutenants and our 

 Attorneys, who can be there present if it seem to them 

 good, under pain of fine of five hundred livres against the 

 Forest-Masters, and suspension from their functions for six 

 months, save when they shall be mulcted in a larger sum, 

 or punished more severely, as the Grand-Master may judge 

 proper ; who shall so regulate the time of the visitation, 

 so that it may be made by the Lieutenant, if the Forest- 

 Master cannot accomplish it. 



* 7. The minute of the visitation shall be signed by the 

 Forest- Master, and by all the Officers present, and it shall 

 state what sales ordinary and extraordinary have been 

 made of coppice and of timber in the course of the year ; 



