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shall agree to submit their said cause of dispute to arbitrators,
appointed under the provisions of this article, 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 entered into, to appoint arbitrators for settling the
matter 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, respect-
ively, who, together with said judge or justice of the peace,
shall have full power finally to hear and determine such dispute.

1888, art. 7, sec. 4. 1878, ch. 379, sec. 4.

4. 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 mode different from the
one hereby prescribed, such agreement shall be valid, and the
award and determination thereon by either mode of arbitration
shall be final and conclusive between the parties.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1878, ch. 379, sec. 5.

5. It shall be lawful in all cases for any employer or
employee, by writing under his hand, to authorize any person
to act for him in submitting to arbitration and attending the
same.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1878, ch. 379, sec. 6.

6. Every determination of dispute by any judge or justice
of the peace shall be given as a judgment of the court over
which said judge presides, and of the justice of the peace
determining the same; and the said judge or justice of the
peace shall award execution thereon as upon verdict, confession
or non-suit; and every award made by arbitrators appointed by
any judge or justice of the peace under the provisions of this
article shall be returned by said arbitrators to the judge or
justice of the peace by whom they were appointed; and said
judge or justice of the peace shall enter the same as an ami-
cable action between the parties to the same in the court pre-
sided over by said judge or justice of the peace, with the same
effect as if said action had been regularly commenced in said
court by due process of law, and shall thereupon become a
judgment of said court, and execution thereon shall be awarded