OF OFFICERS IN CHARGE OF WOODS, &c. 89 



and shall have their residence within the bounds of the 

 Grurie, as near to the woods as possible, under pain of loss 

 of wages and suspension. 



' 2/ They shall have a particular marteau, with which 

 they shall mark injured trees and windfalls. 



' 3. They cannot judge misdemeanours or depredations 

 other than those for which the penalty fixed by our ordin- 

 ance is twelve livres and under ; and if the fine be arbitrary, 

 or exceed this sum, they shall be bound to send the case 

 and the parties before the Forest-Master of their Grurie, 

 under pain of a fine of five hundred livres for the first time, 

 and suspension for repetition. 



' 4. They shall make a visitation every fortnight of the 

 waters and woods of their Gruries, of the same kind and 

 manner as is required of the Officers of Maitrises in their 

 visitations, making the same observations and reports of 

 depredations, damages, void places, malversations, cutting 

 down of reserved standards, of corner trees, border trees, 

 and others, of boundaries, ditches, and generally of all which 

 may be contrary to the orders established by the present 

 regulation. 



* 5. The Sergeants of the Guard of the woods of their 

 Grurie shall bring to them reports of all depredations, 

 these shall be declared and shall be registered in the regis- 

 trary, twenty-four hours after the recognaisance has been 

 made; and the Gruyers shall remit to the Maitrise those 

 which may demand sentences exceeding twelve livres 

 in amount. 



' 6. They shall have a register numbered and arranged 

 by the Forest-Master or his Lieutenant, and our Attorney, 

 into which they shall transcribe the minutes of their visi- 

 ations, observations, markings, and recognaisances, the 

 reports of the Sergeants of the Guard, and all the other 

 acts of their charge, which register shall be signed by the 

 Sergeants ; and three days after each act they shall pass 

 judgment on the articles within their competence, and of 

 others send a copy under their seal to the Registrar of 

 the Maitrise ; they shall make minutes indefinitely of all 



