CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE AND CAMBODIA.
SIGNED AT PHNOM-PENH, 17TH JUNE, 1884.
Between His Majesty Norodom I., King of Cambodia, of the one part; and M. Charles Thomson, Governor of Cochin-China, acting in the name of the French Republic, in virtue of the full powers conferred upon him, of the other part; it has been agreed as follows:-
Art. 1-His Majesty the King of Cambodia accepts all the administrative, judicial, financial, and commercial reforins the adoption of which the Government of the French Republic may hereafter think useful in order to facilitate the protectorate. Art. II. His Majesty the King of Cambodia shall continue, as in the past, to govern his states and to direct their administration, saving the restrictions which follow from the present Convention.
Art. III.-Cambodian functionaries shall continue, under the control of the French authorities, to administer the provinces, saving in all that concerns the establishment and collection of taxes, customs, and indirect contributions, publis works, and, in general, those services which require unique direction or the employment of European engineers or agents.
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 terme 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, & constitution of proprietary rights in Cambodia.
The Christian churches and the temples shall preserve, as their absolute property, the lands actually occupied by them.
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