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Valuator to adjudicate upon Compensation to be paid for Lands and Houses.
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XXII. The Valuator shall, after the Expiration of the Period within which such Claims are required to be delivered to him as aforesaid, proceed to inquire and adjudicate upon the Value of the several Rights to or Interests in such Lands in respect of which no Agreement shall have been come to between the Commissioners and the Persons entitled thereto, and the Purchase Money to be paid for such Rights or Interests; and the Valuator shall, after due Inquiry and Examination, frame a Draft Award or Draft Awards setting forth the Price or Compensation to be paid by the Commissioners in respect of the several Rights to or Interests in the Lands so required and specified to be paid for the Purchase of any Rights or Interests in such Lands to which the Inquiry may relate; and such Draft Award or Awards and Copies thereof shall be deposited as herein-before directed concerning the said Maps or Plans and Schedules as aforesaid; and the Valuator shall cause Notice of such Draft Award to be given to all Persons entitled to Payment under the same, where such Persons may be known to the Valuator, or who shall have been heard before such Valuator as Claimants for Compensation, and shall also cause Notice to be published of such Draft Award once in the Dublin Gazette, and once in each of Two successive Weeks in some One and the same Newspaper circulated in the County of the City of Dublin, and shall in such Notices appoint a Time and Place or Times and Places for holding a Meeting or Meetings to hear Objections against any such Draft Award (the First such Meeting to be not earlier than Ten Days after the First Day of Publication of the said Notice), and shall hold such Meeting or Meetings accordingly, and thereat hear and determine any Objections which may then and there be made to any such Draft Award by any Person interested therein, or adjourn the further Hearing thereof, if the Valuator shall think fit, to a future Meeting, and may take any Measures which he may deem proper for ascertaining the Value of any such Rights or Interests as aforesaid, or the Justice or Propriety of any other Matter of such Draft Award, and may from Time to Time, if he shall see Occasion so to do, appoint and hold further Meetings for hearing and determining Objections to any such Draft Award; and when the Valuator has heard and determined all such Objections, and made such Inquiries as he may think necessary in relation thereto, and made such Alterations (if any) as he may deem proper in the Draft Award, he shall make his Award under his Hand and Seal accordingly, and every such Award shall be binding and conclusive, subject to the Provisions herein-after contained, upon all Persons whomsoever, and no such Award shall be set aside for Irregularity in Matter of Form; and a Copy of every such Award shall be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of the City of Dublin, and the Commissioners shall thereupon publish Notice in some Paper circulated in the County of the City of Dublin once in each of Two successive Weeks of the Deposit of such Award as aforesaid, and requiring all Persons claiming to have any Right to or Interest in the Lands, the Price or Compensation to be paid in respect of which is ascertained by such Award, to deliver to the Commissioners, on or before a Day to be named in such Notice (such Day not being earlier than Seven Days from the Date of the last Publication of the Notice), a short Statement in Writing of the Nature of such Claim, and a short Abstract of the Title on which the same is founded.
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