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pasturage ; and every day they shall be gathered together 

 in some one place, which shall be designated for each 

 burgh, village, or hamlet, and they shall be driven in one 

 herd, by one way only, the most fit and best fenced, which 

 shall be designated by the Officers of the Maitrise, without 

 their being permitted to take any other route in going and 

 returning, under pain of confiscation of the beasts, and an 

 arbitrary fine against the owners, and exemplary punish- 

 ment against the herds and the guards. 



' 7. Private persons shall put a bell on the neck of their 

 beasts, the sound of which may give notice of where they 

 are, and doing damage, that the herds may run after 

 them, and the guards may seize animals wandering and 

 doing damage out of the place designated and declared 

 fencible. 



' 8. It shall not be allowable to any inhabitant to lead 

 forth his cattle under a separate guard, nor to send them 

 into the forest under the charge of his wife, his children, 

 or domestics, under pain of a fine of ten livres for the first 

 offence, confiscation for the second, and for the third 

 total deprivation of usage. This shall be equally enforced 

 in regard to ecclesiastical seigneurs, gentlemen, and others 

 indiscriminately who may enjoy the right of an inhabitant, 

 notwithstanding rights of keeping their flock apart, and 

 all customs or possessions to the contrary. 



' 9. The herds and guards shall be selected and appointed 

 annually, at the instance of Attorneys of the Office or 

 Syndics of each parish, or of the principal inhabitants of 

 the hamlets and villages, by the inhabitants assembled in 

 presence of the Judge of the place, who shall deliver 

 the deed thereof free of expense, or in presence of the 

 Notary or like official of the place, and the community 

 shall be held responsible for those whom they may have 

 chosen. 



1 10. Private usagers cannot lend their names or houses 

 to the merchants and inhabitants of neighbouring towns 

 and parishes to take their cattle there ; and if any be 

 found to have been taken there thus, or through a fraudu- 



