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written the names, surnames, and domiciles of those to 

 whom he shall sell wood, and the quantity and the price, 

 under pain of a hundred livres fine, with confiscation ; and 

 this without several partners having more than one stamp, 

 or marking other trees than those of their purchase, under 

 pain of being punished as forgers. 



' 38. If, however, a merchant hold many purchases, and 

 on account of the distances of the places from one another 

 he be obliged to keep different registers, in that case he 

 may have as many stamps as registers, and those of the 

 same mark, provided he have caused to be made an 

 official report and an imprint, as is said above. 



* 39. The Factors and Gardes-Ventes appointed by the 

 merchants for the using up and sale of their purchases 

 shall make oath between the hands of the Grand-Master, 

 the Forest-Master, or of the Lieutenant, without expense 

 or dues ; they shall make report of offences which may 

 have been committed, within the bounds of their pur- 

 chases or circumjacent ground, which they shall cause to 

 be signed by two witnesses, or attested, if they cannot 

 sign, before one of the Judges of the Maitrise, under pain 

 of its being declared null ; and if the offence have been 

 committed by night, by fire or by saw, this official report 

 shall be valid testimony after having been verified by 

 oath, which official reports they shall lodge in the Registry, 

 and receive the certificate of the Registrar of this having 

 been done, at latest within three days after the offences 

 have been committed ; and doing this the merchants shall 

 thereby be discharged of responsibility, and the delinquents 

 shall be condemned au pied le tour, together with other 

 offences, by the Officers of the Maitrise, at the suit of our 

 Attorney, within eight days after the day on which the 

 report was made ; all this under pain of being held 

 personally responsible. 



' 40. The woods, both timber and coppice, shall be cut 

 and felled by the fifteenth day of April, and the time of 

 vuidance, or bringing out the produce, shall be regulated 

 by the Grand-Master according t.n the possibilite or yield 



