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29. leases of land belonging to the State will be charge- 
able with a fee of twenty cents on delivery of title. This fee 
will be levied at the time of the entry on the register of leases. 
30. Christian institutions, pagodas, mosques and other 
religious establishments, will be permitted to keep in full pro- 
perty the lands occupied by them on the 17th June, 1884, the 
day of the signature of the Pnom-Penh Convention, that is to 
say, temple-grounds, cemeteries, schools, and priests’ houses, 
with their gardens and out-houses. 
Part VI. 
Of Registration of Lands. 
31. During the six months next following after the 
_ publication of this order, there will be opened, for each commune, 
or, if necessary, for each section of a commune, quarter, or ham- 
let, a register of the lands comprised in it, the form of which 
will be decided upon hereafter. 
These registers will be kept in French by the provincial 
Residents. 
32. All mutations of immoveable property must, under 
pain of nullity, be certified to the headmen of cantons, who 
will receive the instrument by virtue of which the mutation is 
effected, will give a receipt for it, and will forward it without 
delay, through the successive grades of headmen (par la 
vote hiérarchique), to the provincial Resident for entry on the 
register of lands of his Residency. 
The certificate of the parties interested is verified bya 
statement signed by the Resident and written upon the ins- 
trument of transfer. 
No mutation of title can be effected by a verbal contract. 
33. The registers of lands will be commenced afresh. 
every five years. 
Parr VII. 
Of Dispossession. 
34. No one shall henceforth be obliged to surrender his 
