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partnery, and there to make, he and his partners, their 

 engagement to fulfil all the conditions of sale, under pain 

 of penalty of a thousand livres against him, and of for- 

 feiture of partnership against his partners. 



' 25. It shall be free to the merchants to revoke their 

 biddings at the Registry of the Maitrise the next day 

 after the auction, at noon, causing it to be intimated in the 

 meantime to the preceding bidder at the domicile given 

 by him, and to the Receiver, to whom they shall pay in 

 cash the bidding revoked. 



' 26. In case of a bidding having been revoked, the pre- 

 ceding bidders shall be one by one successively put in the 

 room and place of those who have revoked their biddings ; 

 and all persons who shall have bidden shall be held 

 to have chosen a domicile in the place in which the 

 auction sales shall be held, both to render valid the deeds 

 which should follow the auction and for the execution of 

 their biddings, revocations, and adjudications, and biddings 

 of a third or of half a third sum, and of all other deeds 

 and acts which it may be necessary to execute ; in default 

 of which choice having been made, assignations to them 

 shall be made at the Registry of the Maitrise, which shall 

 be considered valid. 



' 27. If a merchant purchaser withdraw from the bidding, 

 and renounce the purchase, he shall be arrested until he 

 shall have paid or given good caution for his abandoned 

 bidding, and the purchase shall revert to the preceding 

 bidder, and successively from one to another, as has been 

 prescribed above, 



' 28. The auction sales shall be signed on the spot by 

 the Forest-Merchant, Grand-Master, or him by whom the 

 auction has been held, together with the Forest-Master, 

 our Attorney, and the other Officers of Maitrise^ in the 

 register of the Registrar immediately at the bottom of the 

 deed, and without leaving blank space between the text 

 of the deed of sale and the signatures ; and each of the 

 sheets on which are copied the acceptance of biddings 

 and sales shall be initialed by the Grand-Master. 



