The Oriental Gas Company Act No. 1857
7. In case of delay,
other parties may reinstate, and recover the expenses. Expense how to be
ascertained and recovered.-
If any such delay or
omission as aforesaid take place, the persons having the control or
management of the street, bridge, sewer, drain, or tunnel, in respect of which
such delay or omission shall take place, may cause the work so delayed or
omitted to be executed; and the expense of executing the same shall be repaid
to such persons by the said Company; and the amount of such expense shall, in
case of any dispute about the same, be ascertained and recovered in Calcutta
and in any other town or place subject to the jurisdiction of any of Her
Majesty's Courts of Judicature, in the manner in which expenses are
ascertained and recovered under Act XIV of 1856 1, and in any town or place
not within the jurisdiction of any of Her Majesty's Courts, in the same
manner as damages are recoverable under this Act.