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or others, whoever they may be, under pretext of use and 

 wont; and in case of their meeting with any felled trunks 

 or loppings, they shall make their report of these the 

 same as if they had found them felled standing; and the 

 Officers shall pass sentence according to the loss sustained 

 in the future as well as the present, under pain of arbitrary 

 fine, and being answerable in their own name. 



' 3. As soon as the Officers shall have been advertised 

 of this, they shall proceed to the localities, accompanied 

 by the Garde-Marteau and the Sergeant of the Guard, 

 with his minute, to see the trees of the windfall, and see 

 if the report of the Sergeant be correct, and the wood 

 shall be marked with our marteau, under pairi of arbitrary 

 fine, and their being held personally responsible. 



' 4. The trees of a windfall cannot be laid aside or 

 trimmed under pretext of being cut up for sale and to be 

 debited to our advantage at some other time, but they 

 shall be sold forthwith in the state in which they are 

 found, and the auction shall be held by the Grand-Master 

 in the Audience Hall of the Justiciary of Waters and 

 Forests by extinction of candle, after two announcements 

 of sale have been made in the Audience Hall, or in the 

 market of the place, and at the sermon of the mass by the 

 cure's of the parish of the Court of the Maitrise, and of 

 the towns and villages of the environs of the forest ; and 

 to this end proclamation bills shall be sent, and shall be 

 affixed so as is prescribed for ordinary sales ; and the time 

 allowed for clearing away the wood when bought shall be 

 one month at most, under pain of nullification, and of 

 confiscation of the wood bought. 



' 5. We forbid to the Garde-Marteau to mark, and to the 

 Officers to sell, any trees under pretext that they would 

 have been split or stripped of branches by the fall of the 

 windfalls ; but we will that they be preserved, under pain 

 of arbitrary fine. 



' 6. Immediately after the sales of windfalls, and the 

 auction of small parcels of wood, there shall be prepared a 

 statement of these to be within eigh t days delivered by 



