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Beceiver according to conditions of sale, caution being 

 given, and recognition by the auction -purchaser of 

 the number of other hogs which shall have been deter- 

 mined, both in regard to those of officers and those of 

 usagers. 



'3. The ground shall only be open from the first of 

 October to the first of February ; and neither the usagers, 

 nor the officers, nor the lessees shall put in hogs in greater 

 numbers than was specified at the sale, and this after 

 having branded them, and deposited with the Registrar 

 the stamp used, under pain of a fine of a hundred livres, 

 and confiscation of all in excess of that number or found 

 marked with a false brand. 



' 4. We forbid all persons other than those specified in 

 the statement which shall be issued by our Council, to 

 send or put their hogs on the acorn grounds of our forest, 

 unless they have the authority of the auction purchaser, 

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

 one half to go to our treasury, and the other half to the 

 auction purchaser; and the owners shall be responsible 

 for all that may be done by their swine-herds. 



CHAPTER XIX. Of the Rights of Pasturage and Pannage. 



' Art. 1, We permit to communities, inhabitants, and 

 private persons designated Usagers in the statement 

 sanctioned by our Council, to exercise their rights of 

 pasturage and pannage for their hogs and black cattle in 

 all our forests, woods, and shrubberies in the places which 

 have been declared by the Grand-Masters on their visita- 

 tions, or on advices received by them from the Officers of 

 Maitrises, to be capable of enclosure, and on all the lands 

 and heaths of our domains. 



' 2. The inhabitant usagers shall make a declaration of the 

 number of kinds and quantities of the beasts which they 

 possess or hold on hire; in regard to which last there 

 shall be a list, containing the names of those to whom they 

 belong, which declaration and list shall be taken to the 



