( 1 ) THESE writ appeals and the batch of writ petitions are by the rice millers and traders licensed under Section 7 of the A. P. (Agricultural Produce and Livesstock) Markets Act, 1966 (Act XVI of 1966) hereinafter referred to as the Act , who carry on trade in the notified agricultural produce, to wit, purchase and sale of paddy and rice ia the area notified under the Act, They call in question levy and collection of market fee on the purchase and sale of rice recovered from paddy on the sale of which market fee has already been paid,. which rice, for the sake of brevity, we will hercrinfter refer to as "resultant Rice . They also pray for quashing g. O. Ms. No. 136 F and A-Marketingii by which the earlier notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette No. 231, dt. 15-6-1978 granting exemption from levy and collection of market fees on resultant rice was cancelled. They also pray for quashing the notice issued by the Market committee requiring the traders and Commission Agents carrying, on the business in the market area to pay market fee on the sales of rice and boiled rice at one percent along with the monthly returns irrespective of whether it is recovered from paddy o