OF CONSERVATION OF FORESTS, &c. I5l 



tion of the wood bought, and of the works and utensils, 

 and of arbitrary fine and deprivation of charges against 

 Officers, unless there be letters patent verified on the 

 advice of the Grand-Master. 



' 20. The sales which may be made in virtue of letters 

 patent shall be enregistered in the Registry of the Maitrise, 

 and ashes cannot be made excepting at the places and 

 spots indicated to the merchants by the Grand- Masters or 

 Officers. 



' 21 . We make it to be forbidden to all other persons to 

 keep manufactories of ashes, or to make them elsewhere 

 than in the fellings, or to cause them to be transported 

 except in casks marked with the marteau of the merchant, 

 under pain of arbitrary fine and confiscation. 



' 22. We forbid all persons to char or burn trees, or to 

 remove the bark under pain of corporal punishment ; and 

 charcoal pits shall be put in the most void places, and the 

 most remote from trees and young new growths, and the 

 merchants shall be bound to replenish and restore these 

 places, if this be judged expedient by the Grand-Master, 

 before they obtain their legal discharge, under pain of 

 arbitrary fine. 



' 23. Coopers, tanners, turners, sabot makers, and others 

 of like occupations, cannot keep workshops within a dis- 

 tance of half a league from our forests, under pain of 

 confiscation of their stock-in-trade, and a fine of a hundred 

 livres. 



' 24. We enjoin on Officers of Maitrises to prevent the 

 delivery of stolen wood in farm towns, which are within 

 a distance of two leagues of our forests, and to this end it 

 is permitted to them to make search in the houses for 

 wood in staves and building timber of which they have 

 advice that it has been taken there, and to proceed as 

 circumstances may require, and the guards of our forests 

 can, in presence of an Officer of the Mattrise, or, failin 

 this, in presence of the ordinary Judge, or the Attorney 

 of the office, make such visits, of which they shall prepare 

 minutes, which they shall take to the Registries of the 



