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' 3. They shall make all the surveys and measurements 

 required in their district, as well as in those held in 

 Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et Danger, and by title of appanage, 

 co-proprietorship, sale contract, and usufruct in the 

 Maitrise^ in our woods, grounds, and domains, and the 

 same for those of ecclesiastics, communities, and holders 

 of mortmain, together with all that may, for whatever 

 reason, be ordered by authority of Courts of Justice. This 

 they shall do preferentially to all other Surveyors, on pain 

 of nullification of what may be done by others ; but with 

 permission to private persons to avail themselves of all 

 acts, measurements, and voluntary deliverances of other 

 Surveyors selected at their option, as may seem to them 

 good. 



' 4. The Surveyor of the Grand-Master shall be bound 

 to follow him when ordered, and to make by his orders all 

 allocations of sales, surveys, measurements, and verifica- 

 tions, plans, diagrams, determinations of fellings, and 

 recognaisances of bounds, borders, and ditches, and 

 generally all acts pertaining to his profession ; and to 

 keep a good and faithful register, of which he shall 

 deposit a duplicate, with plans and diagrams, in the 

 hands of the Grand-Master or the Eegistrar of the Maitrise 

 eight days after the completion of the work, and obtain a 

 receipt for it, under pain of of suspension the first time, 

 and deprivation of office on repetition. 



'5. If the Surveyor of a Maitrise be sick or absent, the 

 officers shall give advice of this to the officers of the 

 adjacent Maitrise, who shall be bound to send their ordi- 

 nary Surveyors, or one of them, according as may be 

 required. This we enjoin them to do under the same 

 penalty, and it shall be forbidden to our officers to employ 

 other Surveyors than those whom we have provided and 

 commissioned, under pain of nullification and their remain- 

 ing personally responsible. 



' 6. ■ They shall be bound to hold a visitation every 

 year of all the ditches, bounds, and boundary trees 

 separating and distinguishing our forests and woods ia 



