99 FRENCH LAND DECREE IN CAMBODIA. 
property except in the case of its being required for public 
purposes, and in consideration of fair compensation previously 
paid. 
85. Lands in respect of which dispossession is effected 
on account of their being required for public purposes, will be- 
come part of the State-domain and be classified under the 
head of le domaine public. 
36. Whenever there shall be occasion for dispossession, 
the nature of the public purposes for which the land is required 
shall be previously declared by an order of the Resident-Gene- 
ral. This order will describe the lands to be appropriated, 
will declare their appropriation, will state, if necessary, any 
reasons for urgency in fixing the date from which possession 
will be taken, and will appoint the non-official members of the 
Committee mentioned in the following section. 
37. Within (at the latest) the three months next follow- 
ing the order of the Resident-General, a Committee consisting 
es 
1, the Provincial Resident, or his deputy, President ; 
2, the Headman of the arrondissement and the Head- 
man of the canton, within which the land appro- 
priated is situated ; 
3, the two uon-official members appointed by the 
order prescribed in s. 36; 
shall proceed to the spot, inspect the land appropriated, listen 
to the claims of the owners and other persons interested (notice 
having been given to them at least eight days previously) and 
fix the amount of the compensation. 
The Committee will draw up a Report of its proceedings 
and forward it without delay to the Resident-General, who 
will pay, within three months from the date of such report, 
the sums thereby awarded. 
38. Except in cases of urgency, possession shall never be 
taken until the compensation has been paid. 
The taking of possession must never be delayed longer 
than the month following such payment. 
If urgency has been formally declared to exist, pose 
sion will be taken on the date fixed in the order of the Resi- 
dent-General. 
