86 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



CHAPTER VIII. Of the Greffier, Recorder or Registrar. 



1 Art. 1. The Registrar shall have eight registers, num- 

 bered and arranged by the Master, or his Lieutenant, and 

 by our Attorney. 



'2. The first shall be for the entrance of edicts, declara- 

 tions, decrees, regulations and ordinances, provisions and 

 receptions, appointments and dismissals of officers and 

 guards of the Maitrise. 



' 3. The second, minutes and appointments, sales of 

 fellings, publications and biddings, auctions and verifica- 

 tions of ordinary and extraordinary sales of timber, and 

 also of windfalls and captured stolen wood, pannage and 

 mast, in our woods and forests in Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et 

 Danger, and by title of appanage, co-proprietorship, sale- 

 contract, and usufruct in the Maitrise ; in this shall also 

 be entered the statement which he shall cause to be pre- 

 pared annually by the Forest- Masters, of all that we ought 

 to receive in each Maitrise ; which minutes and deeds shall 

 be signed by the Master, our Attorney, the Gardes-Marteau, 

 the special Receiver of our woods, if there be one appointed, 

 otherwise by the Receiver of the domain, and by other 

 officers who have executed the acts recorded. 



' 4>. The third, minutes of visitations by the Forest- 

 Masters, their Lieutenants, Gardes-Marteaux, and Gruyers, 

 reports by guards and sergeants, which shall be without 

 delay signed by them on the register, so far as they have 

 been made in their presence, without alteration of dates, 

 or of confiscations, fines, restitutions, damages, and com- 

 pensations adjudged in consequence. 



c 5. The fourth, Cases of Audience, in which shall be 

 transcribed the judgments given on pleadings and pro- 

 cesses by writings, that recourse may be had to these, and 

 thus be obviated the evils which might result from the 

 embezzlement of minutes. 



' 6. The fifth shall contain the contracts of sales, both 

 voluntary and judicial, enumerations, consents, leases, 



