S.C.Prasad, J.

1. These two appeals have been heard together. They arise out of two judgments of the District Judge of Santhal Pargana delivered by him in two references made to him by the Deputy Commissioner of Santhal Parganas under Sec.30 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 , on 5-11-1952 on two petitions filed by the State of Bihar claiming that the amounts of compensation payable to the ex-proprietor of Dumka Estate, under which the lands in question had been situated and had subsequently been acquired by the Government of Bihar in village Phutabandh and Puma Dumka, had become payable to the State of Bihar, because the proprietary interest of Dr. G.H. Grant, the ex-proprietor, had vested in the State of Bihar on 22-5-1952 under the Bihar Land Reforms Act.

2. In one of these cases there was a reference under Sec.18 also on the objections raised by the Village Community, but that was not pressed at the time of the hearing and the references have been dealt with by the learned District Judge under Sec.30 of the aforesaid Act, and we are concerned in these appeals with that matter only.

3. It appears that the acquired land was taken possession of by the Collector under Sec.1