ABSTRACT
The executive committees of the other hui-guan in Phnom-Penh were somewhat smaller, numbering about fifteen members; all of them included the chef and sous-chef. Each hui-guan in Phnom-Penh administered its own cemetery through a cemetery committee. The Cantonese cemetery committee consisted of nine or ten persons from the elected council. Besides looking after the cemetery, this committee supervised the exhumation of bones, which was done five years after the first burial. The Cantonese school was organized on a formal basis following the completion of school buildings in 1929, although there had been informal schooling in the temple prior to that date. The school committee was responsible for the appointment of a principal, for the hiring of the teachers, and for the financing of the school. The Cantonese hui-guan was the only one in Phnom-Penh to include a special committee to look after welfare problems.
