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Award to be made in Three Months, unless Parties or Court enlarge the Time.
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XVIII. The Arbitrator acting under any such Document or compulsory Order of Reference as aforesaid, or under any Order referring the Award back, shall make his Award under his Hand, and (unless such Document or Order respectively shall contain a different Limit of Time) within Three Months after he shall have been appointed, and shall have entered on the Reference, or shall have been called upon to act by a Notice in Writing from any Party, but the Parties may by Consent in Writing enlarge the Term for making the Award; and it shall be lawful for the Court of which such Submission, Document, or Order is or may be made a Rule or Order, or for any Judge thereof, for good Cause to be stated in the Rule or Order for Enlargement, from Time to Time to enlarge the Term for making the Award; and if no Period be stated for the Enlargement in such Consent or Order for Enlargement, it shall be deemed to be an Enlargement for One Month; and in any Case where an Umpire shall have been appointed it shall be law ful for him to enter on the Reference in lieu of the Arbitrators, if the latter shall have allowed their Time or their extended Time to expire without making an Award, or shall have delivered to any Party or to the Umpire a Notice in Writing stating that they cannot agree.
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