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taken on appeal before the High Court. The Judges held 
that “the arbitrator in his award had justly taken into 
account the enhanced value of the land by reason of the 
water that might be collected, diverted, and impounded upon 
it, and also by reason of its natural and peculiar adaptation 
for the construction of a reservoir.” 
The following are examples of the remarkable awards 
which have been based upon the decision in this case : 
The Swansea Corporation took, under an Act of Parlia- 
ment, 152 acres for a reservoir out of a sheep farm of 
5000 acres, which had been recently bought at auction 
for £11,500.. The award made for special adaptability 
(£20 per acre), in respect of the 152 acres and for ‘ease- 
ments, was £12,370, being more than the cost of the 
whole farm of 5000 acres sold by auction as an ordinary 
hill farm. 
Two acres of moorland were acquired by the Middle 
Ward District Committee of Lanarkshire for the Shotts 
Reservoir. The land was valued by a competent valuator 
at £326. Anaward was made of £465, but the Corporation 
were obliged to pay in addition £28 as interest and £219 
for the costs of arbitration, making £712 in all—in other 
words, more than twice as much as the just value of the 
land. 
The Glasgow Corporation, when raising the level of Loch 
Arklet, were compelled to pay £19,115 in respect of 381 
acres of rough heather moorland, of which they only acquired 
freehold of 17 acres. In addition to this sum, the Corpora- 
tion had to pay £4700 for legal expenses, £3500 for new 
roads, etc., and £4700 for the right to store water, etc., or 
£31,900 in all. This seems monstrous, in view of the fact 
that the 381 acres were practically of little or no value, 
being part of 11,500 acres of hill pasture, the gross rent 
of which was £700, worth then at 25 years’ purchase only 
£17,500. The real value of the 381 acres would seem to 
have been less than £600, yet £31,900 was extorted. 
The Royal Commission (9) on Housing in Scotland, after 
hearing evidence on this question, came to two clear and 
