168 The Agricultural Holdings {England) Act, 1875. 
Power for Referee, &c., to require Production of Documents, Administer 
Oaths, &c. 
26. The referee or referees or umpire may call for the productioa of any 
sample, or voucher or other document, or other evidence which is in the 
possession or power of either party, or which either parly can produce, and 
which to the referee or referees or umpire seems necessary for determination 
of the matters referred, and may take the examination of the parties and 
witnesses on oath, and may administer oaths and take affirmations ; and if 
any person so sworn or affirming wilfully and corruptly gives false evidence, 
he shall be guilty of perjury. 
Power to proceed in Absence. 
27. The referee or referees or umpire may proceed in the absence of either 
party where the same appears to him or them expedient, after notice given to 
the parties. 
Form of Award. 
28. The award shall be in writing, signed by the referee or referees or 
jimpire. 
Time for Award of Peftree or Beferees. 
29. A single referee shall make his award ready for delivery within twenty- 
eight days after his appointment. 
Two referees shall make their award ready for delivery within twenty-eight 
days after the appointment of the last appointed of them, or within such 
extended time (if any) as they from time to time jointly fix by writing under 
their hands, so that tbey make their award ready for delivery within a time 
net exceeding in the whole forty-nine days after the appointment of the last 
appointed of them. 
Reference to and Award hy Umpire. 
30. Where two referees are appointed and act, if they fail to make their 
ar-ard ready for delivery within the time aforesaid, then, on the expiration of 
that time, their authority shall cease, and thereupon the matters referred to 
tkem shall stand referred to the umpire. 
The umpire shall make his award ready for delivery within twenty-eight 
days after notice in writing given to him by either party or referee of the 
reference to him, or within such extended time (if any) as the Registrar of 
the County Court from time to time appoints, on the applicatidn of the 
umpire or of either party, made before the expiration of the time appointed 
■by or extended under this section. 
Duration of Improvement to he found. 
31. The award shall find and state the time at which each improvement, in 
irespect whereof compensation is awarded, is taken, for the purposes of the 
award, to be exhausted. 
Award to give Particulars. 
32. The award shall not award a sum generally for compensation, but shall, 
as far as reasonably may be, specify — 
The several improvements, acts, and things in respect whereof compen- 
sation is awarded ; 
The time at which each thereof was executed , committed, or permitted ; 
