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the condition, age, and quality of the wood of each ward 

 and lot; the number and kinds of wood in windfalls, 

 the state of the trenches, king's highways, bounds, and 

 divisions, that the remedies which the Forest-Masters 

 may consider proper may be executed at once ; but these 

 general visitations do not dispense with their frequently 

 making special visits, of which they shall prepare minutes, 

 which they shall present to the Grand-Masters, to inform 

 them of the conduct of the borderers, guards, and serge- 

 ants of the forests, merchant-purchasers and their com- 

 missioners, woodmen, workmen, and carriers, and of every 

 thing else concerning the police and conservation of our 

 woods and forests. 



'8. They shall, within fifteen days after they have made 

 these visits, decide the amount of fines to be levied for the 

 misdemeanours mentioned in the minutes of their visits, 

 under pain of being held responsible in their own names. 



'9. We order the Forest-Masters, within fifteen days 

 after the completion of each quarter, to balance and sign, 

 in presence of our Attorney, the roll of fines, restitutions, 

 and confiscations which have been adjudged at the Court 

 of the Maitrise, after these having been verified by them 

 in the minutes and judgments rendered at the sittings, 

 and they shall cause these to be delivered to the Sergeant- 

 Collector, at the instance of our Attorneys, under pain 

 of being held responsible for the sums stated in the rolls. 



' 10. The Forest- Masters shall, six weeks after the time 

 of felling and bringing out the wood has expired, make a 

 verification of the sales made in our forests, woods, and 

 shrubberies, and of the auction sales of coppice woods 

 which are in Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et Danger, co-proprietor- 

 ship, appanage, mortgage, and usufruct, and of windfalls, 

 stolen trees, small sales, panage, and mastage, conformably 

 to the orders given : they shall be bound to prepare, before 

 the first of December in each year, a statement of the 

 greater measurements and excesses which they have found 

 out in their verifications of sales in our woods and 

 coppice woods in Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et Danger; and of 



