98 THE FORESTS OF FKANCE. 



'11. We forbid to officers who shall hold Assizes to 

 levy, take, or receive any thing in money, presents, or 

 what may be equivalent to such, under pretext of fees and 

 signatures to judgments given, or otherwise in whatso- 

 ever form, under pain of charge of exaction. 



' 1 2. Eight days before the opening of the Assizes, all 

 the fishermen of each Maitrise, summoned by separate 

 notice given to each, or left at their houses by the 

 Sergeant of the Fishery Guard, shall compear to elect 

 Masters of the communities. 



CHAPTER XIII. Of the Marble Table and Judges in 

 Final Resort. 



' Art. 1. The Marble Tables of our Palaces of Paris and 

 of Rouen, and others, shall give judgment in all civil and 

 criminal processes relating to lands and property in our 

 woods and forests, islands and rivers, woods held in 

 Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et Danger, and by title of appanage, 

 co-proprietorship, sale contract, and usufruct in the 

 Maitrise, and in all cases which shall be remitted to them 

 by the Grand-Master of Waters and Forests in their depart- 

 ments, subject, however, to appeal to Parliament when the 

 jurisdiction is in a case subject to appeal. 



' 2. They shall take cognisance also of all appeals from 

 sentences and judgments pronounced by the Officers of 

 Maitrises and other inferior Judges of their district, as 

 also of judgments given by Seigneurial Courts in matters 

 concerning the waters and forests ; but we expressly forbid 

 thenTto supersede the execution of judgments rendered 

 for depredations, malversations, confiscations, and dis- 

 missals appealed to them, under pain of suspension and 

 arbitrary fine. 



'3. The appeals of Grand-Masters, their Lieutenants, 

 and other Officers of the Marble Tables, shall be taken up 

 and adjudged in our Courts of Parliament in the ordinary 

 manner in cases which it shall not be competent for the 

 established Judges to decide without appeal, 



