( 1 ) IN this group of four Letters Patent Appeals, we are concerned with the common orders pronounced by the learned-single Judge on 5/08/1987. under which four petitions came to be decided and disposed of. The tour petitions were taken out. by in all 165 petitioners who were engaged in the business of Dyeing, Printing and Manufacturing of Saries at different places in the town of Rajkot. The challenge was posed by them to the notice issued by the respondent-Municipal Commissioner at Annexure-A under the provisions contained in Sec. 376-A of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act. 1949. (now. hereinafter referred to as the b. P. M. C. Act ). Learned single Judge has studied the provisions contained under Sec. 376-A of the B. P. M. C. Act. along with the requisition which came to be issued to the petitioners who were before the learned single Judge by taking out four petitions. It appears that. very many contentions were raised in the Memorandum of the Petitions but ultimately the ground which came to be urged before the learned single Judge was in respect of the legality and the validity of the requisition in question, because the only ground which came to b