120 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



the Registrar to the Receiver of the Woods, if there be 

 one, or otherwise to the Receiver of the Domain, who 

 shall give a receipt for the same. 



' 7. The fees of the Officers and of the Registrar for the 

 sales of windfalls and stolen trees, as well as for recognai- 

 sances and for martellages, shall be determined by the 

 Grand-Masters when they are present, according to the 

 trouble and the time consumed, and be levied on the fines 

 and proceeds, of which recovery shall be made by the 

 Sergeant-Collector ; in order to this they shall present to 

 them their minutes, ordinances, and other documents; and 

 the proceeds of sales shall be paid in to the Receiver, and 

 by him to the Receiver-General, and their fees, as well 

 as the principal price received of our woods, shall be com- 

 prised in the statement of the recovery made. 



CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Sale or Letting by Auction of 

 Pannage, Mast, and Pasturage. 



' Art. 1. When there shall be a sufficiency of acorns and 

 beech-nuts to allow of a sale being made, without injury 

 to the forests, the Forest-Master or the Lieutenant and 

 our Attorney shall visit the spot, and in presence of the 

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

 shall prepare a minute of the number of hogs which may 

 be put on pannage in the forests of the Maitrise, with a 

 statement also of the number which may be placed there 

 by usagers and the officers ; and there shall be made on 

 the spot by the Grand-Master a tax for their salaries to be 

 paid out of the fines and other monies recovered by the 

 Sergeant-Collector, on their simple quitance, which tax 

 shall be in accordance with the ordinances, and the 

 amounts shall be allowed. 



* 2. The auction sale shall be held at the Audience Hall 

 before the fifteenth of September by extinction of candle, 

 and to the highest and last bidder, after publication of the 

 same as is done in sales of windfalls, with express charge 

 to the purchaser to make payment into the hands of the 



