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together devote a day to the making the allotmeats, which 

 shall be done in their presence by the Surveyor. 



6. ' The Surveyor shall make, in presence of the Ser- 

 geant of the Guard, the lanes and trenches required for 

 the boundary ; shall mark with his stamp as near to ihe 

 ground as he can, such a number of corner trees, and divi- 

 sion and partition trees marking the angles and connecting 

 lines of the boundaries, as he shall consider sufficient, 

 with indications of the side on which he shall have im- 

 printed his stamp, the royal stamp, and that of the Grand- 

 Master. He shall make mention of the fact if he have so 

 imprinted any trees for corner standards, and of their age, 

 quality, nature, and size, and of their distance from one 

 another in poles and feet : as also he shall observe the 

 names of the sales in which they occur, if there be any 

 void spaces and their areas; he shall be required to 

 avail himself of at least one of the comer trees of the for- 

 mer sale ; and he shall prepare plans and diagrams of the 

 place which he shall have portioned out ; and of all this 

 he shall make his official report, which shall be signed by 

 the Sergeants and Guards, and he shall place a copy of it 

 in the Registry of the Maitriae three days after having 

 made it, which shall be initialed by the Forest-Master and 

 our Procurator, with mention of the day on which it shall 

 have been delivered, and another copy of it shall be by 

 him sent forthwith to the Grand-Master. 



9. ' The trees marking the margin and the side of the 

 plot shall be marked with the royal stamp and the stamp 

 of the Surveyor on one side, differing in this from the 

 comer trees, which shall be marked on each side facing a 

 lot for sale. 



10. ' The Surveyors can neither measure more nor less 

 in each triage than that which shall have been prescribed 

 to them by the Grand-Master for allotment, under pretext 

 of rendering the outline more regular, or for any other 

 consideration whatsoever, to such an extent that the 

 reduction or addition shall exceed one arpent for twenty, 



