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wards, and they shall be condemned to fines, restitution, 

 and damages as if they themselves had been the delinquents, 

 unless they have reported these, and have themselves 

 deposited their report in the registry of the Maitrise or 

 Grurie, two days at most after the misdemeanour has been 

 committed, and unless they have named in their report 

 the delinquents, and specified the places where the wood 

 and trees stolen have been found, or the number and 

 kinds of cattle caught doing damage, and declaring the 

 owners of them. 



' 10. They shall every three months make a report of 

 the number of boundaries surrounding and marking the 

 limits of our woods and forests, the state in which these 

 are, and that of the ditches and hedges in their ward, and 

 embracing the defects which they may have observed, 

 which report they shall deliver to the Registrar of the 

 Maitrise, to be attended to; and on their failing to give 

 advice and necessary information, they shall be held 

 responsible, and shall bo punished by fine, dismissal, or 

 both, according as may be judged fit by the officers, respect 

 being had by them to the nature of the deed. 



'11. They shall be bound to reside within half a league 

 of their ward, and no one shall henceforth be admitted to 

 office, or continued therein, until he have given good and 

 sufficient security to the amount of three hundred livres, 

 which shall be taken by our Attorney as security for fines, 

 restitutions, and damages to which they may be responsible 

 or condemned. 



' 12. They cannot trade in wood, keep a workshop or 

 collection of wood in their houses, undertake a sale of 

 wood, or associate themselves with the merchants, or hold 

 a drinking house or hostellery, or drink with delinquents 

 of whom they have the cognisance, under pain of fine of a 

 hundred livres the first time, and a greater with depriva- 

 tion of office on repetition. 



'13. It is permitted to them to carry pistols as well for 

 the protection of their own persons from passengers and 

 carriers as the conservation of our forests ; and we forbid 



