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be reserved with those of older growth ; and if it shall be 

 found that the balliveaux, by their size and quantity, 

 hinder by their shade or otherwise the coppice-wood 

 from shooting and making growth, the Grand- Masters 

 shall prepare official reports on this, which they shall send 

 with their opinion to our Council through the Comptroller- 

 General of our finances, that there may be provided by us 

 what may be appropriate in the case. 



' 13. No wood shall be given as remplage, filling up, or 

 compensation under pretext of void spaces, and of roads 

 which shall be found in the purchase ; but the sales 

 shall be made of the woods in the condition in which 

 they shall be found, under pain of fourfold restitution 

 against the merchant who shall have obtained the rem- 

 plage, and of three thousand livres fine, with deprivation 

 of office against the Officers who shall have given it. 



' 14. The purchases cannot be changed in whole or in 

 part, under any pretext whatever, after the auction sales, 

 on pain of exemplary punishment against the Officers, 

 with deprivation of office, and of restitution fourfold of 

 the price of the purchases changed, together with penalty 

 against the merchants, without the possibility of this 

 penalty being moderated under any pretext whatever. 



1 15. We revoke dues de cire et de Greffer, or charges 

 for sealing and recording the purchase ; but the sales of 

 our woods shall be made in future subject to the sole 

 charge of payment of one sol per livre by the purchaser 

 into the hands of the Receiver-General or Special Receiver 

 of Woods, if there be such an Officer, or otherwise of the 

 Domain; out of which sum shall be paid the dues and 

 claims of the Officers of Maitrises and Gruries, according to 

 allotments of these, which shall be ordered by the Grand- 

 Masters, on which, and the receipts of the Officers, the 

 amounts shall be passed and allowed in the accounts of 

 outlay by the Receiver. 



'16. If the amount of one sol per livre prove insufficient, 

 the Grand-Master can take the supplement out of the 

 proceeds of sale, but so that the Officers receive nothing 



