SHARMA, J. :- These are 105 petitions filed by various state grantees and cultivators of the territories included in the former Jaipur State, which have now been included in the Districts of Jaipur, Jhunjhunu, Sawai Madhopur, Sikar and Tonk of the present State of Rajasthan. In the year 1947 the then Jaipur State passed an Act known as the Jaipur District Boards Act, 1947 (hereinafter to be referred to as the Act). This Act came into force on 3-10-1947.

2. Section 3 of the Act provided as follows :

(3) (i) There shall be one Board of every District or any area which the Government may, by notification in the Jaipur Gazette, declare. The jurisdiction of the Board shall not extend to Town Municipalities."

(ii) Every Board shall be a body corporate by the name of "the (name of district) district-board" and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall be vested with the capacity of suing and being sued in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and transferring property, moveable or immovable, and of entering into contracts."

3. Under S. 4 of the Act every Board was to consist of (a) elected members and (b) such persons as might be nominated by the Government. It