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in the registry, their conchisions in writing, and, in case of 

 opposition, to cause these to be intimated to the declared 

 pursuers, to those who have acquired the heritages, to the 

 holders or tenants, and to all others having an interest in 

 them, to be answered in a week, and to be forthwith 

 forwarded for the instruction and judgment of the Grand- 

 Master or of the Officers of the Maitrise, without any 

 expenses or dues, on pain of their being responsible for the 

 whole in their own names. 



'11. We make it to be very expressly forbidden to root 

 up any plants of chesnes, yoke elms, or other trees in our 

 forests, without our permission with countersignature of 

 the Grand-Master, under pain of exemplary punishment, 

 and a fine of five hundred livres. 



*12. We forbid to all persons to take away throughout 

 the extent of our forests, sand, earth, marl, or clay, or to 

 cause lime to be made within a hundred perches distant, 

 without our express permission, and to Officers we forbid 

 to suffer it to be done, under pain of five hundred livres of 

 fine, and confiscation of the horses and harness. 



' 13. There shall not be made any delivery of copse wood 

 or small wood, green or dry, of whatsoever quality and 

 value it may be, to powder manufacturers or saltpetre 

 makers, to whom, and to dealers in gunpowder and salt- 

 petre, we make it to be very expressly forbidden and 

 prohibited, to take any, under any pretext, under pain of 

 five hundred livres fine for the first time, and exemplary 

 punishment on repetition, notwithstanding edicts, declara- 

 tions, decrees, permissions, and concessions to the contrary. 



' 14. No measure shall be used or recognised in our 

 woods and forests, and in those held by co-proprietorship, 

 Grurie, Grarie, Segrairie, Tiers et Danger, appanage, sale- 

 contract, usufruct, and also those of ecclesiastics, communi- 

 ties, and private persons oui subjects, without any excep- 

 tion, but the measure of twelve lines for an inch, twelve 

 inches for a foot, twenty- two feet for a perch, and a hundred 

 perches for an arpent, under pain of a thousand livres fine, 

 notwithstanding and without regard to all usages and 



