174 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



CHAPTER XXXII. Of Penalties, Fines, Restitutions, Damages, 

 Compensations for Loss, and Confiscations. 



1 Art, 1. The ordinary fine for depredations by private 

 persons, not having a charge, usage, workshop, or business 

 in our forests, woods, and warrens, committed between 

 sunrise and sunset, without saw and without fire, shall be 

 for the first offence, a fine of four livres for each foot of 

 oak, and of all fruit trees without distinction, and the 

 same for chestnuts; one of fifty sous for each foot of 

 willow, beech, lime, elm, fir, yoke elm, and ash ; and 

 thirty sous per foot of trees of all other kinds, green and 

 standing, dry or felled, all being taken and measured at 

 half a foot from the ground. 



' 2. Those who have chopped, branched, and spoiled 

 trees, shall pay the same fine per foot round, as if they 

 had felled them at the ground. 



' 3. For each cart-load of split wood, of squared wood, of 

 sawn wood, or of carpenter's wood, the fine shall be twenty- 

 four livres ; for the cart-load of firewood, fifteen livres ; for 

 the burden or load of a horse or ass, four livres ; and for 

 the faggot or bundle twenty sous. 



' 4. For stamped trees, balliveaux, partition trees, and 

 boundary trees, and other reserved trees, fifty livres ; for 

 each corner tree marked with our marteau felled, a hun- 

 dred livres ; and two hundred livres for each corner tree 

 uprooted and removed ; we reduce, however, the fine for 

 balliveaux of the age of coppice woods under the age of 

 wenty years, to ten livres. 



1 5. If the depredations be found to have been committed 

 between sunset and sunrise, by saw or by fire, be it by 

 officers of the forests or of the chases, surveyors, layeurs, 

 guards, usagers, claimants of rights of usage, herds, shep- 

 herds, merchant-buyers or their agents and their factors, 

 guards of sales, woodmen, charcoal-burners, waggoners, 

 masters of forges, furnace-men,brick-makers, and any others 

 employed in the exploitation of the forests and in the 



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