110 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



' 29. The merchant-purchasers shall be bound within 

 eight days after the auction sales, before making use of 

 their purchase, to provide good and sufficient security, and 

 a cautioner, who shall be accepted by the Receiver, or, on 

 his refusal, by the Forest-Master and our Attorney; and 

 they shall bind themselves conjointly to pay into the 

 hands of the Receiver of our woods, if there be such, or of 

 the Domain, the principal of the price in two equal pay- 

 ments, which shall be done at the time specified in the 

 conditions of sale ; and, further, to fulfil the other burdens, 

 clauses, and conditions there mentioned. 



' 30. The Receiver shall be bound at the end of the 

 eight days to cause to be notified, without delay, and by 

 day, to him who gave the pen-ultimate bidding that he is 

 substituted in the room and place of the purchaser who 

 shall have failed to give caution, and that from that 

 moment the purchase is at his charge. 



'31. All persons not prohibited may bid a third or 

 half a third sum for the whole of the triages generally, or 

 for each in particular as they shall have decided on the 

 next day at noon after the day of auction sale ; after 

 which time there shall be no room for tiercement and 

 doublement under any pretext, or for any consideration 

 whatsoever. 



'32. The tiercements and doublements shall be made at 

 the Registry at the time specified above, and notified 

 the same day to the purchasers and receivers by word of 

 mouth to them personally, or at their domicile, if they 

 have made choice of one, if not at the Reegistry of the 

 Maitrise, by writ, which shall state precisely the hour at 

 which it has been served, and the name of those to whom 

 the Sergeants shall have spoken it, under pain of the writ 

 being made null. 



' 33. The tiercement is a bidding which augments by a 



v third the price bidden at the auction, and constitutes thus 



a fourth of the sum thus bidden j and the demi-tiercement is 



another bidding above the tiercement, which is a half of the 



third, so that if the price at the auction be fifteen hundred 



