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Amount to be paid by baronies.
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6. For the purpose of ascertaining the gross receipts and the net receipts from the tramway, and the sums (if any) which any barony shall pay in any half year as provided by the Order in Council, and for the other purposes mentioned in this Act, the Board of Trade may, during the continuance of the guarantee, from time to time appoint as arbitrators the county surveyor acting for the time being in the county in which such barony is situate, and two other persons to be selected by the Board of Trade, and may supply the place of any of such arbitrators dying or resigning or failing or becoming incapacitated to act, and such arbitrators shall from time to time ascertain and determine the amount of the gross receipts and of the net receipts, if any, as prescribed by this Act in respect of the tramway in each half year, and also any other matters which it may appear necessary to them to inquire into and determine upon in order to ascertain the amount which may be applicable out of the receipts of the undertaking to the payment of the guaranteed dividend, and the amount (if any) which the guaranteeing baronies are liable to contribute towards such dividend, or towards the expenses of maintaining or working the undertaking, and the amount (if any) payable to the treasurer of the county under this Act, and shall thereupon apportion and determine the amount of such half-yearly sums, if any, to be paid by the baronies liable to pay the same or by the company, and the arbitrators shall set forth the several matters so determined by them in certificates under their hands, or, in case they do not agree, under the hands of any two of them, and such certificates shall be in all respects binding on the grand jury and the baronies and the company; and immediately after the delivery of such certificates to the secretary of the grand jury of the county, the baronies, or the company, as the case may be, shall be liable as herein provided for the payment of such sums as shall be specified in such certificates, and a copy of every such certificate shall be delivered to the company, and the company shall immediately thereon pay to such arbitrators their costs and expenses, and such remuneration for their trouble in regard thereto as the Board of Trade shall order.
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