WANCHOO, C.J.—These are two applications under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India by Raja Harisingh (No. 25) and Thakur Jaswant Singh (No. 33). The points raised in the two applications are exactly the same, and we propose, therefore, to decided them by one judgment.

2. The case of the applicants is that they are jagirdars of certain villages in Tehsil Nawa, District Nagaur. Settlement operations were going on in that Tehsil for sometime past, and, on the 31st August, 1950, a notification was issued as provided by sec. 81 (1) (d) of the Marwar Land Revenue Act (hereinafter referred to as the Land Revenue Act) inviting objections to the rents published therein within one month. On the publication of this notification, the applicants raised a number of objections to the rent-rates fixed, and said inter alia that the general principles governing settlement were not followed in fixing the rates, and in particular the provisions of the Land Revenue Act had not been complied with both as to the manner of the publication of the rates and to the method of arriving at them. It was also objected that the Marwar Tenancy Act (hereinafter referred to as the Tenancy Act) and the Land Revenue A

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