Tradition dictates that, as a rule, three monks may inhabit a cells and permits up to three monks on trial. Head of the cell is the Elder to whom the monastery has surrendered the cell with a special administrative act and the corresponding instrument which is called a promissory note. The cell is surrendered for life, with its corresponding plot, against a price that also secures successor rights. Succession is established by the registration in the promissory note of the names of three monks. After the elder dies, head of the cells becomes the second, in order, monk, paying to the monastery the so-called tertiary-share.