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which we have an interest, to ascertain if there be any- 

 thing to complete, change, fell, stop, or transport ; and, if 

 it be necessary, they shall make sites of sales and altera- 

 tions, or replacement of bounds which have been taken 

 away and removed, or which may be awanting, following 

 in this the orders of the Grand-Masters and the formal 

 judgments of the officers; and they shall mark all the 

 allignments of ditches to be made and repaired, of which 

 they shall make a minute on the register signed by the 

 Sergeant of the Guard, and this they shall deliver at the 

 resfistry of the Maitrise within three days after the visit 

 has been made, under pain of suspension for the first time, 

 and punishment on repetition. 



' 8. If any Surveyor have, by connivance, favour, or 

 corruption, concealed a removal or alteration of boundaries, 

 have suffered, or have himself made, a change in corner trees, 

 he shall, for the very first case, be deprived of office, con- 

 demned to a fine of five hundred livres, and be banished 

 for ever from our forests, unless the Officers, under pain of 

 possible loss of office, mitigate or alter the sentence. 



Chapter XII. Of Assizes. 



'Art. 1. The Forest-Masters or their Lieutenants shall 

 hold their Assizes or High Courts twice a year at the 

 customary times and public places, where all the Officers 

 of the Maitrises, Gruries et Gravies shall be bound to assist, 

 on pain of a fine of a thousand livres against defaulters 

 without legitimate excuse. 



' 2. The Chapter relating to Assizes contained in the 

 General Regulations shall be read and published at the 

 entrance and the opening of the Assizes. 



' 3. The Assizes cannot be prolonged beyond two days, 

 during which the forests shall remain closed ; when, if any 

 one enter them, they shall be fined ; and if he commit a 

 depredation, he shall be punished as a robber. 



* 4v Our Attorney shall formulate his complaints against 



