178 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



depredations of officers, merchants, usagers, and customers, 

 masters of kilns, forges, and furnaces, of workshops and 

 houses, farmers, auction-buyers, borderers, communities, 

 herds, and others having direction, usage, business, and 

 entrance in the forests, shall be received by the Sergeant- 

 Collector of fines in each Maitrise, and the sentences and 

 lists shall be executed in the form and manner prescribed 

 by the different chapters of the present Ordinance, and the 

 convicts shall be compelled by all means, including personal 

 imprisonment, to make payment. 



*19. The Collectors of fines shall be bound to write on 

 the margin of their rolls what they receive,, and to give a 

 receipt for the same, under pain of fourfold restitution of 

 the sums for which they have not given a receipt. 



* 20. The Collector shall remain responsible for fines, 

 restitutions, interests, and confiscations contained in his 

 rolls in default of his proving within three months after 

 they have been delivered to him, his proceedings of search 

 on discovery of the insolvency of parties from whom they 

 are due, and that sufficient diligence had been used by him. 



* 21. The diligence shall not be considered sufficient, nor 

 the proceedings de carmce of goods good, and valid for the 

 discharge of the Collectors of fines, if they be not signed 

 by the cures or vicars, or by the Judge of the places on 

 the representation of the roll des TaWes etdu Sel, excepting 

 in cases of there having been made new proof by the 

 Officers and our Attorney, in case of a suspicion of fraud, 

 in which case, if proved, the verification shall be made at 

 the expense of the Sergeant-Collectors, who shall, moreover, 

 be condemned to pay fourfold. 



* 22. The Collectors of fines shall not be discharged of 

 the collection of fines and penalties, notwithstanding all 

 diligence used, and enquiries made by them, until in each 

 year they have furnished to the Grand-Master a statement 

 of their receipts and diligence, w^hich shall be certified on 

 the rolls presented by them, with the documents relative 

 thereto, and after our Attorney having been heard, and on 

 the whole judgment has been, passed ordering that the 



