186 WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT, Igoo. 

In cases where damages in respect of an injury are 
recoverable from some person other than his employer, the 
workman may, at his option, proceed either at law against 
that person to recover damages, or against his employer for 
compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Acts, but 
not against both; and if compensation be paid under the 
Acts, the employer is entitled to be indemnified by the said 
other person. 
All questions as to compensation under the new Act are, 
in case of difference, to be settled by arbitration in accordance 
with the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1897. 
In view of the liability attaching to farmers and others 
under the above-named Acts, the Board of Agriculture 
desire particularly to call attention to the fact that many of 
the leading insurance companies are now issuing farmers’ 
insurance policies which provide for the payment of compensa- 
tion on the basis of the Workmen’s Compensation Act for 
all accidents occurring to workmen in the course of employ- 
ment in agriculture; and cover, in addition, the existing 
liability of farmers in connection with accidents to their 
servants under the Employers Liability Act, 1880. The 
premiums charged for these policies range from 3s. for every 
£100 of wages paid. 

