15G Tlie Agricultural Holdings {England) Act, 1875. 
sub-sect. 10). The delivery of such appointment, either to a 
single referee, or to one of two referees, will be deemed a sub- 
mission to a reference bj both parties in the first case, and, in 
the second case, by the party delivering the appointment ; and 
neither party can revoke the submission or the appointment 
without the consent of the other (§ 25). 
There is a provision intended to prevent an evil very well 
Jknown to those who have experience of arbitrations — delay 
in obtaining the award. By this provision a single referee is 
bound to make his award, at least to " make it ready for de- 
divery," within twenty-one days after his appointment (§ 29). 
The clause is so worded because the referee, according to ordinary 
Tules of practice, need not deliver the award till his costs are 
paid. It is sufficient, therefore, to require that he should be 
iready with his award within the period limited, should either 
party then wish to take up the award. If the referee fails to act 
after seven days' notice in writing from either party, or if he 
begins the reference, and before making the award, dies, or be- 
'Comes incapable to act, the parties may then begin again de novo, 
And either appoint a new single referee in his place, or if they 
^ire unable or unwilling to concur in such a selection, they may 
proceed according to the provisions next referred to (§ 22, sub- 
ject. 2). 
Reference to tioo Referees. — If the parties cannot agree in the 
cboice of a single referee, each of them is to appoint a referee ; 
and in case of death, incapacity, or failure of either referee to 
act, after seven days' notice from either party, the party who 
appointed him is bound to replace him by another. Written 
notice of every appointment of a referee by either party must be 
given to the other ; and to meet the not uncommon case of refusal 
to appoint on either side, it is enacted that, upon failure to 
appoint by one party, after fourteen days' notice from the other 
requiring such appointment, the latter may apply to the County 
■Court of the district within which the holding, or the larger part 
of the holding, is situated, and within fourteen days of such 
application, the Court is to appoint " a competent and impartial 
person" as referee (§ 22, sub-sects. 3-6). 
The County Court Orders, 1875, relating to the Agricultural 
Holdings Act, provide that this application shall be by sum- 
mons, taken out by the party who desires the appointment, and 
juldressed to the other party. The summons will direct him to 
attend at tlie Judge's or Registrar's chambers on a day mentioned, 
which (excej)t by consent) is not to be less than seven days from 
tJie date of tlic summons. The applicant's solicitor is to serve 
this summons personally. Upon the day named the parties are 
