( 1 ) IN pursuance of a notification as per Ex. 54 dated 8-7-49 issued under sec. 4 of the Land Acquisition Act hereinafter to be referred to as the Act certain land from the villages of Ravapur Ugedi Gaduli Dayapur Madh and other villages were acquired for putting up Manjal-Lakhpat Road. or those lands the lands which came to be acquired from the villages of Ravapur and Ugedi belonged to His Highness the Maharao of Kutch. The lands from Ravapur admeasured 24 acres 17 gunthas and those of Ugedi admeasured 16 acres 33 gunthas. The claim for compensation in respect of those lands under acquisition was made by His Highness the Maharao of Kutch before the Land Acquisition Officer Nakhatrana. Those lands were in the opinion of the Land Acquisition Officer Kharaba lands in the sense that they were waste lands and that way unfit for any use. He therefore allowed compensation at the rate of Rs. 2-25 np. per one acre of land. Feeling dissatisfied with that award the reference was made by the Land Acquisition Officer at the instance of the claimant under sec. 18 of the Act. The claim in that reference was merely confined to the land admeasuring 3 acres 30 gunthas of Ravapur a