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ordinary offences, if they shall be required to do so by the 

 proprietors. 



' 3. Those who possess timber woods situated within ten 

 leagues of the sea, and two of navigable rivers, cannot sell 

 or exploit them unless they have six months before given 

 advice to the Comptroller-General of the Finances, and to 

 the Grand-Master, under pain of three thousand livres of 

 fine, and confiscation of the wood cut or sold. 



' 4>. Possessors of woods adjoining our forests, either in 

 property or liferent, shall be bound to declare at the Re- 

 gistry of the Mattrise the number and the quality which 

 they wish to sell each year, under pain of arbitrary penalty 

 and confiscation. 



' 5. It shall be free to all of our subjects to cause to be 

 punished delinquencies in their woods, warrens, fish-ponds, 

 and rivers, likewise in chases and fisheries, by the same 

 pains and reparations ordered by these presents for such 

 occurring in our waters and forests, chases and fisheries : 

 and to this effect they can, if they see meet, bring them 

 before the Grand-Master and the Officers of the Mattrise, to 

 whom, in so far as it may be requisite, w^e assign all cog- 

 nisance and jurisdiction in such matters. 



Chapteh XXVII. — Of the Police and Conservation of the 

 Forests, Waters, and Rivers. 



'Art. 1. We repeat the prohibitions made by the 

 Ordinance De Moulins against making any alienations in 

 the future of any part whatsoever of our forests, woods, 

 and shrubberies, under pain against the Officers of depriva- 

 tion of their charges, and of a fine of ten thousand livres 

 against those acquiring such, beside the reunion of the 

 ground to our domain, and the confiscation to our profit 

 of all that may have been sown, planted, or built upon 

 places of this kind. 



'2. A.11 reserved trees and balUveaux in coppice woods 

 shall, in time coming, be reckoned as part of the capital 

 of our woods and forests, without the dowagers, donees, 



