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without even its being the case that in time coming such 

 rights can be disposed of by contract or farmed, but their 

 ordinary produce shall be given on recovery to the 

 Receiver of Woods or of the JL>omain, for which he shall 

 account as for money coming from the sale of our forests. 



'9. The Grand-Masters and Officers of particular 

 Maitrises shall take cognisance of all depredations, abuses, 

 and malversations which shall be committed in woods of 

 this class, not embracing so much what relates to police, 

 sale, and conservation, as in what relates to the execution 

 of justice and to the chase. 



' 10. The ordinary sales shall be made by the Grand- 

 Master, or by the Officer of the Maitrise, with the same 

 forms as ought to be observed in regard to determination 

 and survey of sites of fellings, martellage, balliveauz, publi- 

 cation, auction sales, dublication, tertiating, and verifica- 

 tion of our woods ; and extraordinary sales shall be made 

 by the Grand-Master alone, in virtue of our letters patent 

 duly registered, under pain of restitution and of deprivation 

 of all rights against the possessors, and arbitrary fine and 

 confiscation of purchase against the merchants. 



' 11. The sale of windfalls, broken over or uprooted, 

 shall be proceeded with in the manner ordered for our 

 woods, subject to payment to us of the same proportion of 

 the price as pertains to us in our ordinary sales. 



' 12. All fines and confiscations which shall be awarded 

 for these woods shall appertain entirely to us, without the 

 possessors having power to take anything therefrom ; but 

 they have the same part of restitution, damages, and com- 

 pensation for losses which they have by right and custom 

 from sales. 



1 13. The reserves of balliveaux in coppice woods, and the 

 same penalties and condemnations prescribed for our 

 woods, shall be made and exacted for those held in Grurie, 

 Grairie, Tiers et Danger ; and we enjoin on the Officers to hold 

 a tight hand, and we will that their dues be paid for this 

 according to the allocation which shall be made by the 

 Grand-Master on the whole price of the sales. 



