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shall execute their mandements, judgments, and orders, 

 and those of the Forest-Masters; and generally they shall 

 execute all acts and business in relation to our waters, 

 rivers, forests, woods, and shrubberies, and others afore- 

 mentioned. 



' 5. And in place of the Sergens Dangereux, there shall 

 be established Sergeants of the Guard of rivers and 

 woods which may be entrusted to them, who shall dis- 

 charge the same functions as those in our other woods 

 and forests. 



' 6, The Sergeants shall manifest all assiduity in their 

 wards, and shall not absent themselves from these but 

 for sickness or other legitimate excuse, and after having 

 obtained the permission of the Master and of our 

 Attorney, and after they have commissioned or sub- 

 stituted the nearest Guard, or some other person in 

 their place. 



' 7. They shall each have a register, numbered, paged, 

 and arranged by the Forest-Master and our Attorney, 

 containing the minutes of their visitations, reports, 

 summonses, and all other acts of their charge, together 

 with abstracts of sales, ordinary and extraordinary, and 

 the compass, quality, value, and state of trees overturned 

 or entangled by the wind, and generally of everything 

 done for or against our interest or service within the 

 extent of their wards. 



1 8. The Sergeants shall be divided into two bands, who 

 shall appear alternately at the Audience of the Maitrise 

 or Grurie, and also at the Assizes when so ordered by the 

 officers, to inform them of the state of their wards, and to 

 present, attest, and cause to be enregistered the reports 

 which they may then have in hand, upon which it is Our 

 will that the officers may condemn to pecuniary fine, 

 although there may be no other proof or information, 

 provided that the accused do not present sufficient cause 

 for challenge. 



' 9. The Sergeants shall be responsible for the depreda- 

 tions, uprootings, abuses, and damages occurring in their 



