RAMAPRASADA RAO, J.:- The Ramanathapuram Market Committee, Virudhunagar, constituted or established by the Government of Tamil Nadu under Section 5 of the Madras Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1959 (Act 23 of 1959), who is the defendant in O. S. 90 of 1968, on the file of the Subordinate Judge of Ramanathapuram at Madurai, is the appellant. The Tamil Nadu Act 23 of 1959 came into force on 22-10-1962. But by a notification in the Fort St. George Gazette on 18-4-1962, pursuant to the G. O. Ms. No. 1054 (Food and Agricultural) dated 30-3-1962, the State Government directed the constitution of a market committee at Virudhunagar and markets at Virudhunagar, Rajapalayam and Sattur, in Ramanathapuram District. These committees were no doubt regularly constituted and established under the provisions of the Madras Commercial Crops Markets Act (Act 20 of 1933). The main intendment of the Act is to provide for the better regulation of buying and selling of commercial produce in the State of Tamil Nadu and in order to achieve that object, a machinery is set up to control the trade in commercial crops and impose restrictions on the carrying of such trade. Cotton is one of the commer