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upon the arbitrators, the modes indi- cated of determining compensation, the essential contents of the awards. and directions on other matters are 20 fully set forth in the Qrdinued and so well known as not to require repetition.

3.

The Board of Arbitration established under the Taipingshan Resumption Ordinance, being a special Tribunal, specially constituted, had

no local precedents to quide its proce_ -dure or to fix the best mode of arriving at the co

comperiation

specified in section

the Ordinance and it was there.

fore somewhat difficult for the parties to arrive at the proper figures inn for- mulating their claims or offers. It would have facilitated matters if the Board had in the first instanes annameed (a) the principles which

adopt in estimating was a "full and fair compensation "

it would

what

within

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within the meaning of section 5; (b) whether precedents under the Lands Clauser Acts of those under the Housing of the Working

Classe Act, 1890 (ifeither) would be held to be the more applica_

ble to claims and cases under the Jai-

pingshan Desumption Ordinance, (c)

the view which the Board took on the

important question of costs, expecially

affecting

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the

charges to be allowed

for the service of Surveyors.

4.

I propose first to deal

with certain questions which arose for the decision of the Board and the promouv

necensents of the Board

thereon..

In the opening case, the solicitor for the claimant proposed to put in the title deeds of the property for

which compensation was sought. From

this it was clear that the claimants.

adviser considered that euch a course was necessary, and this view

legal

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