OF RE -SURVEYS AFTER THE FELLINGS. Ill 



which may be found to have been committed in the course 

 of the use and exploitation of their purchases, of which 

 they have not been validly exonerated. 



0. The official reports of re-survey shall contain exactly 

 i the quantity of arp^its and of poles which the Surveyors 

 shall have found in the purchase re-surveyed, and if they 

 find any encroachments or extensions beyond the pleds 

 corniers. they shall measure them, make an exact descrip- 

 tion of them, and distinguish them in the diagram which 

 shall be prepared by them. 



'7. After that our Attorney in the Matlrise shall have 



taken cognisance of the official reports made by the 



Officers, Surveyors, and Soucheteurs, he shall state in writing 



i the conclusions to which he shall have come in relation 



thereto, and shall cause these to be notified to the 



merchants, who shall be bound to give an answer in 



' writing in three days ; and the whole shall be lodged in 



the Registry, and adjudged at the first Audience or 



i hearing at the Court by the Forest- Master, with the 



I Lieutenant and the Garde-Morteau^ without the Officers 



I being able at the close of the Court to claim any dues or 



I other fees than those which shall be allotted to them by 



the Grand-Master, to be taken out of the sol per livre, 



under pain of bribery. 



' 8. If by the official reports of re-survey there be found 



in excess of what had been stated between the 



pieds corniers, the merchant shall be adjudged to pay for 



this in proportion to the original price and the charges of 



the purchase ; and if there be found to be a deficiency, 



there shall be a reduction made in proportion from the 



; amount of his bidding, or he shall be reimbursed in cash 



: on the purchases of the following year, without its being 



permitted to give compensation in wood, or to make com- 



; pensation in kind for excess or deficit. 



' * 9. If there be found any encroachment or extension 



! beyond the pieds corniers, the merchant shall be condemned 



to pay fourfold the rate of the highest sum of his bidding, 



in case that the wood cut by him shall be of the same 



