104 THE FOPvESTS OF FRANCE. 



devote a day to the making the allotments, which shall be 

 done in their presence by the Surveyor. 



' 6. The Surveyor shall make, in presence of the Ser- 

 geant of the Guard, the lanes and trenches required for 

 the boundary ; shall mark with his stamp as near to the 

 ground as he can, such a number of corner trees, and divi- 

 sion and partition trees marking the angles and connecting 

 lines of the boundaries, as he shall consider sufficient, 

 with indications of the side on which he shall have im- 

 printed his stamp, the royal stamp, and that of the Grand- 

 Master. He shall make mention of the fact if he have so 

 imprinted any trees for corner standards, and of their age, 

 quality, nature, and size, and of their distance from one 

 another in poles and feet; as also he shall observe the 

 names of the sales in which they occur, if there be any 

 void spaces and their areas; he shall be required to 

 avail himself of at least one of the corner trees of the for- 

 mer sale ; and he shall prepare plans and diagrams of the 

 place which he shall have portioned out; and of all this 

 he shall make his official report, which shall be signed by 

 the Sergeants and Guards, and he shall place a copy of it in 

 the Registry of the Maitrise three days after having made 

 it, which shall be initialed by the Forest-Master and 

 our Procurator, with mention of the day on which it shall 

 have been delivered, and another copy of it shall be by 

 him sent forthwith to the Grand-Master. 



' 7. We forbid Surveyors and Sergeants to make roads 

 exceeding three feet in breadth, for the passage of the 

 bearers of measuring poles, and of merchants who shall go 

 to see the sale lots, under pain of a hundred livres of 

 penalty, and the restitution of double the value of the wood 

 felled. 



' 8. The wood felled in the lanes and trenches cannot 

 be taken away, but shall remain for the profit of the pur- 

 chaser, and shall appertain to him without either the 

 Surveyors or the Sergeants being able to claim any portion 

 of it ; to them it is forbidden to take it away under pain 

 of a hundred livres penalty and suspension, and to adjacent 



