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ARBITRATION AND AWARD. [ART. 67.

corporation, the said board of public works shall have power to
demand and receive a statement of the grounds of said controversy
from the parties to the same; and if, in their judgment, there shall
be occasion so to do, they shall have the right to propose to the par-
ties to said controversy, or to any of them, that the same shall be
settled by arbitration, and if the opposing parties to said contro-

Arbitration

versy shall consent and agree to said arbitration, it shall be the duty
of the said board of public works to provide in due form for the
submission of the said controversy to arbitration, in such manner
that the same may be finally settled and determined; but if the said
corporation, or the said person in its employment or service, so
engaged in controversy with the said corporation, shall refuse to
submit to such arbitration, it shall be the duty of the said board of
public works to examine into and ascertain the cause of said contro-

Reports

versy, and to report the same to the next General Assembly.

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How disputes
can be adjusted

8. All subjects of dispute, arising between all corporations and
any person in the employment or service of such corporation, and
all subjects of dispute between employers and emploj'ees, employed
by them in any trade or manufacture, may be settled and adjusted
in manner hereafter mentioned.

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Proceedings

9. Whenever such subjects of dispute shall arise as aforesaid,
it shall he lawful for either party to the same to demand and have
an arbitration or reference thereof in manner following, that is to
say, where the party complaining and the party complained of shall
come before, or agree by any writing under their hands, to abide by
the determination of any judge or justice of the peace, it shall and
may be lawful for such judge or justice of the peace to hear and
finally determine in a summary manner the matter in dispute be-
tween such parties; but if such parties shall not come before, or so
agree to abide by the determination of such judge or justice of the
peace, but shall agree to submit their said cause of dispute to arbi-
trators, appointed under the provisions of this act, then it shall be
lawful for any such judge or justice of the peace, and such judge or
justice of the peace is hereby required, on complaint made before
him, and proof that such agreement for arbitration had been en-
tered into, to appoint arbitrators for settling the matters in dispute ;
and such judge or justice of the peace shall then and there propose
not less than two nor more than four persons, one-half of whom
shall be employers and the other half employees, acceptable to the
parties to the dispute respectively, who, together with said judge or
justice of the peace, shall have full power finally to hear and deter-
mine such disputc.

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Agreement

10. In all such cases of dispute as aforesaid, as in all other cases,
if the parties mutually agree that the matter in dispute shall be
arbitrated and determined in a different mode to the one hereby
prescribed, such agreement shall be valid, and the award and deter-
mination thereon by either mode of arbitration shall be final and
conclusive between the parties.