Pakenham Walsh, J.

1. This is an application under Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure and Section 107 of the Government of India Act of 1908 to issue a writ of certiorari against the Hindu Religious Endowments Board and to quash the proceedings of that Board, dated 17th July, 1934. The matter concerns the Mariamman temple of Irakkankudi, Sattur Taluk, Ramnad District. It is an excepted temple according to the amended definition of Act IV of 1930. The Hindu Religious Endowments Board had suo motu started proceedings under Section 62 of Act II of 1927 which I shall hereafter call the Act to frame a scheme. The draft scheme had been submitted to the trustees and was pending at the time of the order. The Board states in the order:

whereas complaints have been received by the Board that Sri Mariamman temple of Irakkankudi, Sattur Taluk, Ramnad District is receiving income by way of Kanikkais and other offerings from the worshippers estimated to amount to thousands of rupees and that the poosaries who are in management of the temple do not bring them into account whereas the poosaries estimate the income at a very low figure and there is conflicting version with regard to the