( 1 ) THIS is a petition, for the issue of a "writ of mandamus under Article 226 of the Constitution declaring that the notification No. 752 dated 25-8-1952 followed by notification No. 780 dated 24-9-1952 are ultra vires and illegal and for restraining the respondents from doing anything in pursuance of the same. It is filed in the following circumstances. The petitioner owns a plot of Ac. 25-00 of wet land in Valivartipadu village, a suburb of Gudivada. He was making efforts to dispose of this land by plotting it out as house sites for some years. In 1939 the Commissioner, Gudivada Municipality served a notice on him directing him to furnish plans in triplicate in case he wanted to sell the lands as house sites. Two years later, the municipality prepared a lay out plan for this area and seems to have required him to submit plans necessary for the purpose. As this does not seem to have been complied with for a long time, he was called, upon by a notice in July 1949 to show cause why he should not be prosecuted for contravening the terms of previous notice regarding the plans and also to stop the sale of the land till the plans were submitted and approved. Plans w