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dismissals of officers, inquests and decisions of prose- 

 cutions, and of orders and acts, which they shall issue 

 in their charges in the course of each visitation and 

 verification, a duplicate of which register they shall on 

 their return deposit with the Registrar of the Marble 

 Table, that it may be at command. 



' 21. They may, when it seems to them good, make 

 visitations in the woods and forests pertaining to ecclesi- 

 astics, communities and holders by mortmain, to see if there 

 have been committed any depredations and waste in the 

 timber forests, and whether in the fellings of coppice woods, 

 reserves and limitation in regard to age of trees felled 

 have been made conformably to our ordinances and regu- 

 lations, in order that there may be done in these woods 

 what in each case may be required. 



' 22. They shall regulate the partition of waters, woods, 

 meadows, and pastures in commons, as well in regard to 

 the lot claimed by the seigneurs as to the usage claimed, 

 and the division of the ground between them and the 

 inhabitants ; and when need be, they shall make sales, 

 auctions of wood, or the giving up of woods to be felled, 

 we interposing our authority through them, so as to prevent 

 and repress any vexation. 



' 23. They shall visit our navigable and flotage rivers, 

 together with the roads, fisheries, and mills upon our 

 waters, to see if there be any encroachments or usurpa- 

 tions which may impede navigation or flotage, and to 

 remove these immediately that the course of the river 

 may be free of all impediment. 



' 24. They shall cause themselves to be furnished with 

 statements by the collectors of the fines imposed in each 

 Maitrise, and of the money paid as fines, confiscations, 

 sales of stolen trees, restitutions, and damages awarded 

 in our woods and forests, and in those held in Grurie, 

 Grarie, Tiers et Danger, concession, mortgage, usufruct, aud 

 co-proprietory ; which statements they shall collate with 

 the lists of items cited, signed by the Registrar, and of 

 the diligence used to recover these amounts and specified 



