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for the waters, meadows, wild pastures, and communal 

 woods against private persons, shall appertain to the 

 Seigneur High-Justiciary, and the restitutions, damages, 

 and compensations for losses, to the community, excepting 

 in cases of reformations, in which all fines and confiscations 

 shall appertain to us, and the damages and compensation 

 for loss, to the parish. 



' 22. We will that the restitutions, damages, and com- 

 pensation for losses adjudged to communities for encroach- 

 ments and abuses, or depredations committed in their 

 woods, waters, and usages, shall be put into the hand of 

 the Syndic, or of a notable inhabitant, who shall be ap- 

 pointed for this purpose by a majority of the votes, to be 

 employed entirely, as above-described, in repairs and 

 public necessary work, under pain of a fine of five hundred 

 livres, and quadruple restitution against those who may 

 have otherwise ordered or disposed of the same. 



CHAPTER XXVI. Of Woods belonging to Private 

 Proprietors. 



' Art. 1. We enjoin on all our subjects, without exception 

 or difference, to regulate the felling of their coppice woods 

 so as to secure at least ten years' growth, with reserve of 

 sixteen balliveaux on each arpent, and they shall be bound 

 to reserve also ten per arpent on ordinary of timber, to 

 be disposed of, however, for their profit after the age of 

 forty years for the coppice wood fellings, and of a 

 hundred and twenty years for the timber trees, and more- 

 over that they shall observe in exploitation what is pre- 

 scribed for practice in our woods, under the pains borne 

 by the ordinances. 



' 2. We give permission to the Grand-Masters and other 

 Officers of the Waters and Forests the right to visit 

 and inspect the woods of private proprietors, to cause to 

 be observed the present Ordinance, and to repress contra- 

 ventions, without exercise of other jurisdiction; and 

 they may take cognisance of sales, watching, police, and 



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