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which may be found to have been committed in the course 

 of the use and exploitation of their purchases, of which 

 they have not been validly exonerated. 



* 6. The official reports of re-survey shall contain exactly 

 the quantity of arpsnts and of poles which the Surveyors 

 shall have found in the purchase re-surveyed, and if they 

 find any encroachments or extensions beyond the pieds 

 corniers, they shall measure them, make an exact descrip- 

 tion of them, and distinguish them in the diagram which 

 shall be prepared by them. 



' 7. After that our Attorney in the Mailrise shall have 

 taken cognisance of the official reports made by the 

 Officers, Surveyors, and Soucheteurs, he shall state in writing 

 the conclusions to which he shall have come in relation 

 thereto, and shall cause these to be notified to the 

 merchants, who shall be bound to give an answer in 

 writing in three days ; and the whole shall be lodged in 

 the Registry, and adjudged at the first Audience or 

 hearing at the Court by the Forest- IVlaster, with the 

 Lieutenant and the G-arde-Morteau, without the Officers 

 being able at the close of the Court to claim any dues or 

 other fees than those which shall be allotted to them by 

 the Grand-Master, to be taken out of the sol per livre, 

 under pain of bribery. 



' 8. If by the official reports of re-survey there be found 

 in excess of what had been stated between the 

 pieds corniers, the merchant shall be adjudged to pay for 

 this in proportion to the original price and the charges of 

 the purchase ; and if there be found to be a deficiency, 

 there shall be a reduction made in proportion from the 

 amount of his bidding, or he shall be reimbursed in cash 

 on the purchases of the following year, without its being 

 permitted to give compensation in wood, or to make com- 

 pensation in kind for excess or deficit. 



' 9. If there be found any encroachment or extension 

 beyond the pieds corniers, the merchant shall be condemned 

 to pay fourfold the rate of the highest sum of his bidding, 

 in case that the wood cut by him shall be of the same. 



