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In either case, the fact of possession having been taken 
must be recorded in a report by the Provincial Resident. 
39. Every act of dispossession which shall not be in con- 
formity with the preceding regulations is hereby declared to 
be void and of no effect, provided that this shallin no way 
affect any liability, civil or criminal, which may have been 
incurred by those officers who may have ordered, prosecuted, 
carried out, or in any manner taken part in the same. 
General Procedure. 
40. Any matter not provided for in the present Regula- 
tion shall, on the motion of the Resident-General, be deter- 
mined by the Governor of Cochin-China, the Council of the 
Government of Cambodia being consulted. 
41. The Resident-General is charged with the carrying 
out of the present order, which shall be enrolled wherever need- 
ful, and inserted in the Journal Offictel de la Cochin-Chine 
Francaise and in the Bulletin Cfficiel du Cambodge. 
Given at Pnom-Penh, the 28th October, 1884. 
CHARLES THOMSON, 
Governor of Cochin-China. 
(Seal of the first Minister). 
ORDER ABOLISHING THE Tax on Pappy. 
1. The tax upon paddy levied by the Oknhaluong is, and 
shall remain, abolished. 
2. The foregoing decision shall apply to the harvest, now 
in progress, for 1884. 
3. Paddy intended for the manufacture of spirits shall 
continue to be charged with a duty of ten per cent. 
