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prohibition the holes or arches which serve as water- 

 courses for streams, nor the gullies, vent-holes, and other 

 openings necessary for the escape of water, which shall 

 remain in their entirety. 



' 23. We forbid to all our subjects having islands, 

 meadows, and unenclosed bourgognes within the bounds 

 of the Gapitaineries of St. Germain en Laye, Fontainbleau, 

 Vincennes, Livry, Compeigne, Chambort, and Varenne du 

 Louvre, to have them mown before St. John the Baptist's 

 Day, under pain of confiscation'and arbitrary fine. 



' 24. We make it to be forbidden to all persons to make 

 in future any parks, and enclosures of heritages with 

 masonry, within the extent of the open country of our 

 royal mansions, without our express permission. 



' 25. We do not intend, however, to oblige our subjects 

 to ask permission to enclose heritages which they may 

 have behind their houses situated in towns, villages, and 

 hamlets outside of the open country thus specified, which 

 they may make to be enclosed in walls, if this seem to 

 them good, without our captains having power to hinder 

 them. 



' 26. We declare all seigneurs who are high justiciaries, 

 whether they have leases or not, to have the right of chase 

 within the extent of their high justiciary, although the 

 fief of the parish may belong to another, without, however, 

 their bemg able to send any of their domestics or other 

 persons to hunt on their behalf, or to hinder the proprietor 

 of the fief of the parish from also hunting within the 

 extent of his fief. 



'27. If the high jurisdiction be dismembered and 

 divided among many children or private persons, he only 

 to whom belongs the principal portion shall have right to 

 hunt within the extent of the jurisdiction, to the exclusion 

 of the other co-justiciaries, who have not part in the fief; 

 and if the portions shall be equal, that which belongs to 

 the share of the oldest shall carry this prerogative, in this 

 particular alone, and without consequent title to the other 

 rights. 



