8&4. FRENCH LAND DECREE IN CAMBODIA. 
lands employed for public purposes (Je domaine 
public) ;sx 
reserved lands (Je domaine de réserve) ; 
alienable lands (/e domaine aliénable). 
In the endowment of the Crown is included all the im- 
moveable property placed at the disposal of His Majesty the 
King of Cambodia, with power to him to collect the revenues 
thereof and to dispose of them at his pleasure, subject to the 
reservations contained in this order. 
In the public domain are included—roads, highways, rail- 
way lines and their appurtenances ; streams navigable for ves- 
sels or rafts, as well as their banks or shores to a breadth of 
eight metres beyond the ordinary level of high water; all the 
ways of communication in general; buildings, lands and pre- 
mises appropriated to a public purpose. 
0. The Crown endowment and the public domain are 
inalienable; the immoveable property composing them can 
neither be pledged or mortgaged. 
6. The reserved tracts include such immoveable property 
as the government decides to withhold from immediate alie- 
nation and to reserve for the wants of the future, although 
they form a portion neither of the Crown endowment nor of 
the public domain. 
Such immoveable property is inalienable as long as it 
continue to be classed under this category; it may, however, 
be pledged or mortgaged. 
7. The alienable tracts comprise all lands, the alienation 
of which is authorised as occasion arises. They may be clas- 
sified, in each commune, in different classes, which will only be 
disposed of successively, so that lands of the second class will 
only be alienated after those of the first have been exhausted, 
those of the third class after the complete alienation of the 
second, and so on. | 
8. Land revenue of all kinds, and the rents derived from 
the immoveable property of the State-domain, with the excep- 
tion of the Crown endowment, go to the credit of the State 
budget, which benefits similarly by the sums realised by the 
sale of alienable lands. 
