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parties shall be held as possessed of nothing, which we 

 enjoin on the Grand-Masters to do, and on our Attorneys 

 to require it of them, under pain of having to answer for 

 it in their own names. 



' 23. When there has been an appeal from a sentence of 

 fine, the Collectors appointed in the Mattrises shall make 

 recovery of it after the appeal has been heard, whether 

 the tines have been increased or diminished at the Marble 

 Table or otherwise ; and we forbid to all others to inter- 

 meddle with the receipt and collection, under pain of a 

 fine of a thousand livres. 



' 24. The Collector of fines shall have for his fee two 

 sous per livre on the recovery and actual receipt which he 

 shall make. 



' 25. The fines shall not become prescribed in less than 

 ten years, notwithstanding all usages and customs to the 

 contrary. 



'26. If it shall happen that the Officers shall have been 

 convicted of having committed forgery or fraud in their 

 reports and proceedings, they shall be condemned to pay 

 quadruple, be deprived of their offices banished from the 

 forests, and subjected to corporal punishment as abettors 

 and prevaricators; and the Guards who shall hava made 

 the reports shall be sent to the galleys for life, without 

 any moderation. 



1 27. The charges and offices held in the Waters and 

 Forests shall remain specially appropriated, and this to the 

 exclusion of ail debts and hypothecs, to meet restitutions, 

 damages, and compensations for loss, fines, and expenses 

 adjudged for depredations, neglegencies, and malversations 

 of the Officers holding them. 



* 28. All fines, restitutions, damages, compensations for 

 loss, and confiscations of ecclesiastics, commanderies, infir- 

 maries, hospitals, communities, and private persons, shall 

 be adjudicated in the waters and woods, and the sentences 

 and recoveries shall be executed in the same manner as 

 for those which have been pronounced on matters con- 

 nected with our Waters and Forests. 



