JUDGMENT :- This second appeal arises out of a suit filed by the appellant for a declaration that the proceedings dated 9-2-1959 and 26-3-1959, of the respondent, State Wakf Board, requiring the appellant to have the suit Durga and its properties registered, to (submit?) accounts, budgets and returns and threatening prosecution and imposition of penalties otherwise than the Wakf Act are void, illegal and without jurisdiction.

2. Both the courts below have held that the Wakf Board has got jurisdiction to ask the appellant to have the suit Durga registered and to send the accounts and budgets. Hence the second appeal by the aggrieved plaintiff. It is necessary to state a few facts that led to the filing of the suit.

3. It is common case that the properties set out in the plaint and situate at Killai, Chidambaram Taluk, were originally granted by the Nawab to the predecessors-in-title of the appellant. There were other disputes with which we are not concerned now. Finally, a scheme was framed in O. S. No. 10 of 1909 on the file of the Sub Court, Mayuram, according to which trustees were appointed for the suit properties and provisions were made for their management. According t