80 THE FOUESTS OF FRANCE. 



in all our woods and forests, woods in Grurie, Grairie, Tiers 

 et Danger, and in those of appanage, sale-contract, and 

 usufruct, in visitations, surveys of fellings, sales, auctions, 

 and verifications, as also in the Audience-Hall and in the 

 Council Chamber, and in all else ; in which case, in all 

 he shall do for us, he shall have two-thirds of the dues, 

 fees, and emoluments which the Master would have had 

 had he been present ; and for special work he shall be paid 

 according to the regulations, and according to the work 

 done. 



' 2. If the Master be not a graduate, the Lieutenant 

 shall have preferentially all instructions to give in Court 

 in all business concerning the Waters and Forests, and 

 which shall be raised by parties or at request of our 

 Attorney. 



' 3. He shall be required to reside in the town in which 

 IS the Court of the Maitrise^ and he may not absent himself, 

 particularly on the days and hours of the Audience, without 

 previous notice to the Master or the Garde-Marteau, that 

 they may provide a substitute in his absence for the 

 administration of justice, so that the Court may be always 

 complete, under penalty of privation of wages. 



'4. If a month after the time prescribed for the Forest- 

 Masters to make their general visitation, any have not 

 done so, the Lieutenant shall be bound to make a general 

 visitation of the Waters and Forests of the Maitrise, 

 assisted by the officers, as directed in the chapter relating 

 to Forest-Masters, and under the same penalties as have 

 been prescribed in regard to him. 



Chapter VI. Of the " Procu7^eur du Eoi," or King^s Attorney. 



*Art. 1. Our Attorney shall be a graduate, and shall 

 discharge his functions as well in the Court of the Grurie 

 as of the Maitrise. 



' 2. He shall be bound to have three separate and 

 different registers ; of these, the first shall contain a state- 

 ment of all suits wliich he shall have had to undertake, 



