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CHOLON-CAMBODGE
DIRECTORY
Maire et Président de la Coinmission Municipale-M. L'HELGONALC'H
COMMISSION MUNICIPALE
Rimaud, lère Adjoint
Sinner, Counseiller Municipal
Bonnefoy
do.
Huynh-cao-Ke, 2e Adjoint
Khnông thanh-hgnyen, Conseiller Hguyên Chiên Thong,
Phung Hhn't,
Lâm Khanh,
Quach Dam,
do.
do.
do.
do.
ADMINISTRATION MUNICIPALE
Secrétariat de la Mairie-M. Bernay,
secrétaire général
Etat Civil-M. de Fontaine Goubert, chef
de bureau
Comptabilité-M. Norre, chef de bureau
Voirie M. Rochelle, chef de service Police Municipale-M. Mariot, commissaire
de police
Police de Sureté M. Poillot, commissaire
de police
Recette Municipale-M. Rocca, payeur Contrôle des Contributions directes-M.
Lonpy, contrôleur
ServiceMédical-DocteursLahmg Bounaire
et Biaille de Langibandière Epizotie-Fabre, vétérinaire
Enseignement- M. Cimetièr, directeur
d'école
BAN CHUM LEONG, Piece-Goods Merchant and Commission Agent-19, rue des Jardins (Cochinchine)
Hua-Nhan, manager and proprietor
CAMBODGE
Cambodia, the kingdom of the Khmer, extends from 101 deg. 30 min. to 101 deg. 30 min. longitude E. of Paris, and trom 10 deg. 30 min. to 14 deg. latitude. It was reduced to its present proportions in 1860 by the annexation of its two richest provinces, Angkor and Battambang, to Siam. Its area is about 62,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam, on the south-east by French Cochin-China, on the north by the French Laos, and on the north-west and west by Augkor and Battambang. The noble river Mekong flows through the kingdom, and after passing through French Cochin-China, empties itself, by a number of mouths, into the sea. The Mekong is the grand waterway of Cambodia, and, like the Nile in Egypt, lays the greater part of the country under water annually, greatly increasing its fertility. The soil of Cambodia is rich and productive, and rice, pepper, indigo, cotton, tobacco, sugar, maize and cardamoms are cultivated. Coffee and spices of all sorts could be grown. Among woods ebony, rose, sapan, pine, iron, and other valuable sorts exist, no less than eighty different kinds of timber being found in the forests. Iron of good quality has been discovered, and it is affirmed that there are gold, silver, and lead mines in the mountains. The fisheries of Cambodia are very productive, and salt fish forms one of the chief articles of export. Large quantities of fish oil being also produced.
Cambodia was once an extensive and powerful State, and proofs that it possessed much higher civilisation than that which now prevails in the country are to he tound in the architectural remnants of former grandeur. The noble ruins of the ancient city of Angkor are monuments of a people much superior to the feeble race which now inhabits Cambodia. The Cambodians differ entirely from their neighbours, the Annamites, both in features and customs. Polygamy is practised among them The prevailing religion is Buddhism. The people are apathetic and indolent, and have allowed the trade to fall into the hands of Chinese, of whom there are alw 160,000 in the country. The entire population of the kingdom is about 1,000,000 Slavery, since its abolition by the French Treaty of 1884, has almost entirely
lisappeared.