34 The Agricultural Holdings [England) Act, 1883. 
mentioned, their authority ceases ; the matters of reference then 
stand referred to the umpire (§ 18), and they must sue the 
parties employing them in default of payment. There does not 
appear to be any imperative obligation upon the referees to 
inform the umpire that he is seised of the questions in dispute : 
§ 18 only says that the umpire shall make his award ready 
for delivery within twenty-eight days after receiving from either 
party, or either referee, written notice of the reference to him ; 
so that the parties may meanwhile agree to put an end to 
the litigation and expense that may follow the umpire's inter- 
vention. If the umpire cannot prepare his award in twenty- 
eight days, it will be necessary that either he or one of the 
parties should, within this period, apply for an extension of 
time to the registrar of the County Court, who may refuse the 
application, or extend the time again or again without any 
limitation. 
A usual course, with a view to save expense, is that an 
umpire should sit with the referees, and form his own judgment 
upon the facts and evidence, subject to any statement he may 
afterwards receive from the referees, should they differ in 
support of their respective views. This procedure rather pre- 
supposes that the referees will differ, as indeed they generally 
do, being chosen to represent different interests, and therefore in 
a measure bound to support or oppose the claim. In practice, 
if there be this joint sitting, the referees would generally be 
able, when it closes, to say whether they agree or disagree ; and 
the umpire would generally know whether his services would 
become necessary. But there is nothing in the Act to require 
an umpire to sit with the referees, and this, therefore, is a point 
left to be settled by the convenience of the parties. 
Award to give Particulars (§ 19). — A similar condition was 
laid down by § 32 in the Act of 1875, and the valuer's work is 
now required to be even more precise. There must, therefore, 
be corresponding method and accuracy in the tenant's accounts ; 
and he will often suffer pecuniary loss unless these are kept 
with a view to satisfy the exigencies of the new law. The old 
system of stating a lump sum for everything due to the tenant 
encouraged slovenly accounts ; but now, as in 1875, referees 
and umpires are not to award " a sum generally for compen- 
sation." They must " so far as possible specify " — (a) the 
improvements, acts, and things for which compensation is 
awarded ; (V) the date at which each was done ; (c) the sum 
awarded in respect of each. The same details are required 
concerning the valuable consideration, waste, or breach pleaded 
by the landlord in reduction of the claim, and concerning any 
breach alleged by the tenant to swell it. 
