88 FRENCH LAND DECREE IN CAMBODIA. 
23. The instrument of alienation may contain a stipula- 
tion exempting the land from taxation, either wholly or par- 
tially, for a period which shall in no case exceed four years. 
The purchase money will be payable either in cash at the 
time of delivery of title, or by annual payments calculated in 
such a manner that the purchaser will find himself entirely 
free within a maximum period of ten years. 
24. The cost of taking possession must be defrayed 
entirely by the purchasers and concesstonaires. 
25. Instruments by which the alienation of State lands 
is effected are exempt from all fees for registration or other- 
wise, with the exception of a fixed charge of 20 cents for 
delivery of title, which will be levied at the time of registra- 
tion in the register of alienations, on which a minute of sales 
by auction will be entered. 
26. The alienation of State lands takes final effect—in 
the case of free concessions, by the discharge, for four conse- 
cutive years, of the land-tax; or, in the case of alenations 
burdened with a payment, by the entire payment of the pur- 
chase-money. 
27. The Resident-General can always direct the revoca- 
tion of alienations which have not taken final effect, either for 
non-compliance with the clauses of the contract, or for insuf- 
ficient or bad cultivation. 
The eviction of the purchaser or concessionaire is pro- 
nounced, after a preliminary suit, by the authority who ordered 
the alienation, subject to the confirmation or approval of the 
superior authorities whose concurrence is necessary as laid 
down in sections 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19. 
28. No demise of State lands for farming can take place 
if it has not been previously authorised by the Resident-Gene- 
ral; such demise will then be concluded by the provincial 
Resident, entered on the register of leases specially kept for 
that purpose (which will be kept in the way indicated in sec- 
tion 20 as to the register of alienation), and confirmed by the 
Resident-General in the same way as sales by private contract 
where the purchase money is less than two hundred dollars, 
before the detached duplicate is issued to the lessee. This lat- 
ter can in no case be exempted from payment of the land-tax. 
