( 1 ) THESE four appeals are preferred by the State under S. 11 of the Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immoveable Property Act, 1952. Civil Miscellaneous Appeal No. 415/1980 arises from Arbitration Case No. 4/75 pertaining to Ac. 10. 21 guntas in survey No. 165 at Alwal village. Civil Misc. Appeal No. 416/1980 arises from A. c. 3/75 pertaining to Ac. 8. 09 guntas in survey No. 164. Civil Misc. Appeal No. 417/80 arises from A. C. 1/75 pertaining to Ac. 3. 09 guntas in survey No. 162 and Civil Misc. Appeal No. 418/80 arises from A. C. 2/75 pertaining to Ac. 7. 17 guntas in survey No. 163. All these four survey numbers are adjacent to each other. Indeed they form a contiguous block.

( 2 ) THESE lands concerned were requisitioned under the Act in 1966. Acquisition proceedings were commenced in 1971. The competent authority offered to pay compensation at the rate of Rs. 9. 50 ps. per square yard, to which however, the claimants were not agreeable. In A. C. Nos. 1, 2 and 4/75 they claimed at the rate of Rs. 50/- per square yard, while the claimants in A. C. 3/75 claimed at the rate of Rs. 30/- As between the owners and the protected tenants of these lands; an agreement