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' 14. There shall be made a register, prepared by the 

 Master aud our Attorney, of all sales, auctions, and verifi- 

 cations, which all the Officers present shall sign, together 

 with the possessors and their Attorneys; and the merchants 

 aud their factors, if they know how to sign. 



' 15. There shall be in each Maitrise one or more Ser- 

 geants, according to the number and distances of the woods 

 held in co-proprietorship, and in Grurie, Grairie, and Tiers 

 et Danger to keep ward, and make report of depredations, 

 abuses, and malversations, the same as is proposed for our 

 forests. 



*16. The possessors cannot take any live tree without 

 the mark and delivery of the Grand- Master, such tree 

 shall be instantly felled and sold for our profit, at the price 

 of the value of the proportion which is our right. 



' 17. When there shall be ordinary sales the possessors 

 may take their chaufage or firewood from their part of the 

 sale ; but if there have not been an open sale no ckauffage 

 can be taken except in dead wood, or dead trees of the 

 nine kinds specified. 



* 18. The Grand-Masters shall in each year visit all the 

 woods of this class ; they shall cause to be shown to them 

 the registers held, and judgments pronounced on depreda- 

 tions and malversations, with a statement of sales and 

 verifications ; and they shall make reformations in these 

 woods when this they judge necessary. 



' 19. The Forest-Masters, or their Lieutenants, shall be 

 obliged to make a visitation, along with our Attorneys, at 

 least once a year ; the Gardes-Marteaux, every six months ; 

 and the Sergeants without intermission, of which visita- 

 tions they shall make minutes, each of what he has himself 

 seen, and these they shall without loss of time deposit in 

 the Registry of the Maitrise ; all under pain of deprivation 

 of their charges, and of being held personally responsible 

 for depredations, abuses, and malversations. 



' 20. We ordain that within six months after the day of 

 the publication of these presents there shall be made a 

 survey, diagram, and description of all of the forests, wood3 



