OF FELLINGS, SALES OF WOOD, &c. Ill 



livres, the tiercement will be five hundred livres, and the 

 demi-tiercement two hundred and fifty livres. 



' 34. We enjoin on the Registrars to mark the day and 

 hour precisely in the deeds which they shall prepare, and 

 deliver on the adjudications, tiercements, and doublements, 

 under pain of three hundred livres of fine, and all 

 expense, damages, and loss for the first time ; and for the 

 second, like compensation for penalties, with deprivation 

 of oflBce. 



' 35. The demi-tiercement can only be received in advance 

 of the tiercement, but there may be made in one bidding 

 the tiercement and the demi-tiercement. This it is which is 

 called doublement, which being notified in the way above 

 prescribed to the last bidder, he shall be allowed to make 

 a simple bidding in advance of this, and on this bidding 

 he, and the tterceur, and the doubleur shall be received to 

 vote one against another between themselves alone, and 

 the purchase shall rest with the highest bidder without 

 further disturbance ; all which shall be done before the 

 Grand-Master, or the Commissioner who shall have held 

 the auction, if they be present ; if not, before the Officers 

 of the Maitrise. 



'36. After the merchants shall have produced their 

 securities and cautioners, the Eeceiver shall give them their 

 certificates to be presented and to be registered in the 

 Registry free of charge— a copy of which shall be put 

 into the hands of the Gardes-Marteaux, to whom and to the 

 Officers it is forbidden to suffer any fellings to be com- 

 menced, in regard to which they have not seen, and seen 

 registered, the certificate of the Receiver, under pain of 

 having to answer for the same in their own name and person. 



' 37. The purchaser of timber trees in our forests, of 

 which they make use in work, shall be bound to have a 

 stamp, an impress of which shall be deposited in the 

 Registry, to mark the wood which he shall sell standing, 

 without his having power to sell wood of this quality 

 without having this mark, and to have for himself, or 

 his factors, or Gardes-Venies, a register, in which shall be 



