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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