The amount of fee payable under this Act on a memorandum of appeal against an order relating to compensation under any Act for the time being in force for the 1 acquisition of land for public purposes, shall be computed according to the difference between the amount awarded and the amount claimed by the appellant.

STATE AMENDMENT

Orissa

Insertion of new section 8A in Act (7 of 1870).--After section 8 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted:--

"8A. Statement of particulars of subject-matters of suits and plaintiffs valuation thereof.--In every suit in which an advalorem court-fee is payable under this Act on the plaint, the plaintiff shall file with the plaint a statement of particulars of the subject-matter of the suit ad his own valuation thereof unless such particulars and the valuation are contained in the plaint. The statement shall be in such form and shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed by the Provincial Government by notification in the Gazette. In every such suit the plaintiff shall also, if the Court so directs, file a duplicate copy of the plaint and of the said statement".

[Vide Orissa Act 5 of 1939, s. 11]

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Footnote -

1. See now the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894).