172 THE FORESTS OF FRANCE. 



' 17. We forbid the taking away and removal of the 

 fishing stages without the permission of the Officers of our 

 Maitrises after the recognaisance which may have been 

 made of them, and they have been adjudged to him who 

 has reclaimed them. 



' 18. "We make it to be forbidden to all persons to go on 

 the pools, fishponds, and ditches when they shall be frozen, 

 for the purpose of breaking the ice, and to make holes, or 

 to carry torches, brands, and other fires thereon, under 

 pain of the punishment for robbery. 



' 19. Ecclesiastics, seigneurs, gentlemen, and communities 

 who have right of fishing in the rivers, shall be bound to 

 observe, and to cause to be observed, the present regula- 

 tion by their domestics, and by fishers to whom they may 

 have farmed the right, under pain of being deprived of the 

 right. 



' 20. We enjoin on them likewise to give by declaration 

 to our Attorneys in Maitrises, the names, surnames, and 

 dwellings of the fishers to whom they have given a lease 

 of their fishing, which declaration shall be registered at 

 the Registry of the Maitrise, where the fishers shall be 

 bound to take the oath, and to elect annually, in the pre- 

 sence of the Forest-Masters, or their Lieutenants, holding 

 their Assizes, Masters of the community, as do the fishers 

 in our waters, that there may be kept and preserved by 

 them like order as by the fishers of our Maitrises. 



' 21. For the replenishing of our fishponds, the carp 

 shall be at least six inches long, the tench five, and the 

 perch four ; and with regard to the pike, it shall be of 

 such a size as the successful bidder at the auction may 

 wish; but there shall not be made a cast in the fishponds 

 and ditches until a year after they have been stocked, 

 which shall also be observed with the fishponds, pools, and 

 ditches of ecclesiastics and communities, the same as with 

 ours. We enjoin on the Officers of Maitrises to attend to 

 this without their having power to charge any dues or fees, 

 under pain of charge of exaction. 



' 22. All Master Fishers in our rivers, and those of 



