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Department, and deceived his opinion, unless it be that 

 the letters have been forwarded on their reports with 

 opinion attached under their official seal. 



' 16. Nothing shall be in future received into any office 

 of Judicature of Waters and Forests, which has not been 

 subjected to examination, with regard to the adequate and 

 full accordance of the matters in it with the contents of 

 this Ordinance, by the principal officers of the Court in 

 which the process is to be prosecuted ; with regard to 

 the Registrars, Ushers, Sergeants, and other subordinate 

 officers, they shall only be interrogated on the articles 

 which relate to their respective functions; all under pain 

 of being null and void. 



CHAPTER II. Officials Connected with the Maitrises. 



'Art. 1. The several Forest-Masters, Lieutenants, our 

 Attorneys, Gardes-Marteau, and Greffiers Registrars or 

 Recorders of the Maitrises shall be fully five-and-twenty 

 years of age ; they shall be supplied by us, and receive 

 at the Marble Table of the Department the information 

 previously obtained by the Grand- Master, his Lieutenant, 

 or other Officer of the Court commissioned by him, in regard 

 to their life and conduct, of their being of the Catholic 

 Apostolic Roman religion, and of their fitness for the work 

 of the Waters and Forests ; with the exception of the 

 Greffiers who shall receive theirs at the Maitrise. 



2. An Audience shall be held on one day in each week, 

 in the Auditory or Audience-Hall of Waters and Forests ; 

 and they shall meet on the same day in the afternoon, 

 or oftener if need be, in the Council Chamber, to judge 

 on documentary deeds, and advance all other ordinary 

 business. 



' 3. We will that there be in the Council Chamber a 

 chest closed with three keys, in which shall be deposited 

 the Marteau or Hammer-stamp, designed for marking 

 corner trees, divisions, border trees, balliveaux or seed- 

 bearing reserved trees, and others to be reserved; one 



