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c 29. Neither can merchants or their partners hold any 

 workshop or hut, or cause wood to be wrought elsewhere 

 than on their fellings, under pain of a hundred livres fine 

 and confiscation. 



'30. Those who inhabit houses in our forests and on 

 their borders cannot trade there, nor keep workshops for 

 wood, nor make of this wood a larger collection than is 

 necessary as firewood, under pain of confiscation, arbitrary 

 fine, and demolition of their nouses. 



'31. Neither can the Sergeants of the Guard, nor other 

 Officers of our forests, keep a tavern, or exercise any trade 

 in which wood is used, under pain of discharge, and of 

 fifty livres fine, besides confiscation of the wood which may 

 be found in their dwellings. 



' 32. We make it also forbidden to all persons to convey 

 or kindle fire at any time or season whatsoever in our 

 forests, heaths, or shrubberies, and those of communities 

 or of private proprietors, under pain of corporal punish- 

 ment and of arbitrary fine, besides the reparation of any 

 damages which the fire may have caused, for which the 

 communities and others who have selected the grounds 

 shall be responsible to the civil law. 



' 33. We abrogate the permission and rights granted 

 relative to fire, huts, and all deliverings of trees, perches, 

 and dead wood in a dry or a new state, unless it have been 

 made to some usagers, on whatsoever conditions they may 

 have been granted, and to take, or cause to be felled, and 

 to carry away other wood than is lying on the ground, 

 notwithstanding all titles, decrees, and privileges to the 

 contrary, which shall all remain null and abrogated, under 

 penalty against those contravening of fine, restitution, 

 damages, and compensation for loss, and of deprivation of 

 right of usage. 



' 34. Usagers, parties having rights of usage, and others 

 found by night in the forests, off the highway, with bill- 

 hooks, hatchets, saws, or axes, shall be imprisoned and 

 condemned for the first time to a fine of six livres ; for 

 the second, to one of twenty ; and for the third to banish- 

 ment from the forest, 



