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Art. IV. Residents or Assistant Residents, appointed by the French Govern- ment and entrusted with the maintenance of public order and the control of the local authorities, shall be placed in the chief towns of the provinces and wherever their presence may be thought necessary.
They shall be under the order of the Resident, whose duty it is, according to the terms of Article II. of the treaty of the 11th August, 1863, to assure, under the high authority of the Governor of Cochin-China, the regular exercise of the protectorate, and who will take the title of Resident-General.
Art. V.-The Resident-General shall have the right of private and personal audience with his Majesty the King of Cambodia.
Art. VI.-The expenses of the administration of the kingdom and those of the protectorate shall be at the charge of Cambodia.
Art. VII.-A special arrangement shall be made, after the definite establishment of the budget of the kingdom, to fix the civil list of the King and the allowances of the Princes of the Royal Family.
The civil list of the King is provisionally fixed at three hundred thousand dollars; the allowance of the Princes is provisionally fixed at twenty-five thousand dollars, the division of which shall be made according to arrangement between His Majesty the King of Cambodia and the Governor of Cochin-China.
His Majesty the King of Cambodia undertakes not to contract any loan without the authorisation of the Government of the French Republic.
Art. VIII.-Slavery is abolished throughout Cambodian territory.
Art. IX. The land of the kingdom, until now the exclusive property of the Crown, shall cease to be inalienable. There shall be framed, by the French and Cambodian Authorities, a constitution of proprietary rights in Cambodia.
The Christian churches and the temples shall preserve, as their absolute property, the lands actually occupied by them.
Art. X.-The town of Phnom-penh shall be administered by a Municipal Com mission composed of the Resident-General or his delegate, President; six French officials or merchants appointed by the Governor of Cochin-China; three Cambodians, one Annamite, two Chinese, one Indian, and one Malay appointed by His Majesty the King of Cambodia from a list presented by the Governor of Cochin China.
Art. XI. The present Convention-of which, in case of dispute and agreeably to international usage, the French text shall be considered the original—confirms and completes the treaty of the 11th August, 1863, the Royal Ordinances, and the Con- ventions between the two Governments so far as they are not contrary to the preceding provisions.
It shall be submitted for the ratification of the Government of the French Re public, and the ratification shall be delivered to His Majesty the King of Cambodia with as brief delay as possible.
In faith whereof His Majesty the King of Cambodia and the Governor of Cochin-China have signed the present act and affixed their seals thereto.
Done at Phnom-penh the 17th day of June, 1884.
CHARLES THOMSON
NORODOM.