Judgement

K. SUBBA RAO, J. : These three appeals by certificate granted by the High Court are directed against the common order of the High Court of Judicature at Madras, date 10th July 1953,* dismissing three writ petitions filed by the appellants impugning the validity of the provisions of the Madras Commercial Crops Markets Act (Mad. 20 of 1933), hereinafter referred to as the Act, and the Rules framed thereunder, and certain notifications issued by the first respondent herein in pursuance thereof.

* See A. I. R. 1954 Madras 621.

2. The Act was passed to provide for the better regulation of the buying and selling of commercial crops in the State of Madras and for that purpose to establish markets and make rules for their proper administration. On 18th May 1951, the State Government issued G. O. No. 1049 (Food and Agriculture Department) extending the provisions of the Act to Ramanathapuram and Tirunelveli Districts in respect of cotton and groundnuts. On 25th February 1952, the State Government issued G. O. No. 251 (Food and Agriculture Department) ordering the constitution of a Market Committee at Koilpatti and Sankarankoil in Tirunelveli District. By a similar G. O., viz., G. O.