64 Tlie Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1883. 
Where a tenant gives such notice, the landlord may, before the determina- 
tion of the tenancy, or within fourteen days thereafter, give a counter-notice 
in -miting to the tenant of his intention to make a claim in respect of any 
waste or any breach of covenant or other agreement. 
Every such notice and counter-notice shall state, as far as reasonably may 
be, the particulars and amount of the intended claim. 
8. Compensation agreed or settled by reference. — -The landlord and the 
tenant may agree on the amount and mode and time of payment of com- 
l^nsation to be paid under this Act. 
If in any case they do not so agree the difiference shall be settled by a 
reference. 
9. Appointment of referee or referees and umpire. — "Where there is a 
reference under this Act, a referee, or two referees and an umpire, shall be 
appointed as follows : — 
(i.) If the parties concur, there may be a single referee appointed by thera 
jointly : 
(2.) If iDefore award the single referee dies or becomes incapable of acting, 
or for seven days after notice from the parties, or either of them, 
requiring him to act, fails to act, the proceedings shall begin afresh, as 
if no referee had been appointed : 
(3.) If the parties do not concur in the appointment of a single referee, 
each of them shall appoint a referee : 
(4.) If before award one of two referees dies or becomes incapable of 
acting, or for seven days after notice from either party requiring him to 
act, fails to act, the party appointing him shall appoint another referee : 
(5.) Notice of every appointment of a referee by eithtr party shall be given 
to the other party : 
(6.) It for fourteen days after notice by one party to the other to appoint a 
referee, or another referee, the other party fails to do so, then, on the 
application of the party giving notice, the county court shall within 
fourteen days appoint a competent and impartial person to be a referee : 
(7.) Where two referees are appointed, then (subject to the provisions of 
this Act) they shall before they enter on the reference appoint an 
umpire : 
(8.) If before award an umpire dies or becomes incapable of acting, the 
referees shall appoint another umpire: 
(9.) If for seven days after request from either party the referees fail to 
appoint an iimpire, or another umpire, then, on the application of either 
party, the county court shall within fourteen days appoint a competen 
and impartial jierson to be the umpire. 
(10.) Every appointment, notice, and request under this section shall be in 
writing. 
10. Bequisition for appointment of umpire hy Land Commissiotiers, &c. — 
Provided that, where two referees are appointed, an umpire may be appointed 
as follows : — 
(i.) If either party, on appointing a referee, requires, by notice in writing 
to the other, that the umpire shall be apjwinted by the Land Com- 
missioners for England, then the umpire, and any successor to him, shall 
be appointed, on the application of either party, by those commissioners. 
(2.) In every other case, if either party on appointing a referee requires, by 
notice in writing to the other, that the umpire shall be appointed by the 
county court, then, uiile-ss the other party dissents by notice in writing 
therefrom, the umpire, and any successor to him, shall on the application 
of either party be so apixtinted, and in case of such dissent the umpire, 
and any successor to him, shall be ap]x)intcd, on the application of either 
piarty, by the Land Commissioners for England. 
