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which shall make express mention of their consent or 

 opposition, under pain of nullification; and the Judge 

 who shall have sold them without this formality, or before 

 judgment was delivered on the objection, in case of one 

 being taken, shall be condemned to a fine of a thousand 

 livres for the first time, two thousand for the second, and 

 deprivation of his charge on repetition. 



' 8. There shall also be communicated to our Attorneys 

 in Maitrises all consents, lists, contracts of purchase, and 

 declarations of heritages held in manors within the en- 

 closure, and within a hundred perches of our forests, 

 woods, and shrubberies, without their being able to be 

 received, verified, enregistered, or invested by our Officers 

 in the Chambre des Cotnptes, Finance Bureau, nor by the 

 lords superior, lords of the manors, their farmers, re- 

 ceivers, or Officers, excepting after this communication, or 

 consent of our Attorneys, or the judgment of the objection, 

 if there have been any, of which mention shall be made in 

 the deeds of reception, registration, and investiture, under 

 the above-mentioned penalties against the Officers, and of 

 re-union or resumption of the feudal rights and manor 

 rights against the seigneurs, and of the confiscation of the 

 goods given by consent and declaration against the private 

 persons who shall have made them without this formality. 



' 9. In the communications which shall be made to our 

 Attorneys of Maitrises, all the heritages joined to the forests 

 as seized or acquired and given by consent and list shall 

 be stated with their contents, number of arpents, nature, 

 and quality ; and if need be, shall be resurveyed by the 

 sworn Surveyor of the Maitrise, whose minute shall be 

 declared before the Forest- Master, and registered in the 

 registry, without expense in the case of the deed of com- 

 munication being truthful, but at the expense of the parties 

 who shall be found to have been attempting fraud with 

 the survey alone, which shall be paid according to the 

 decision thereon which shall be given by the Forest-Master. 



' 10. We enjoin on our Attorneys to give, within fifteen 

 days from the day that the documents have been lodged 



