1. These are applications to revise the orders of the Board of Revenue passed, one under Section 172 of the Estates Land Act and the others under Section 171 of the same Act. So far as the cases under Section 171 are concerned, the only point that is raised which relates to jurisdiction is that a single member of the Board of Revenue has no power to decide questions under these sections. However, under Section 2 of the Madras Act I of 1894 it is enacted It shall be lawful for the Board of Revenue to declare what portion of the business of the Board may be disposed of by a single member.

2. It is not suggested here that the Board has not allotted this branch of work to a single Member and therefore that Member had complete authority to deal with the matter. No other question of jurisdiction arises in the case disposed of by the Board under Section 171

3. So far as the order passed under Section 172 is concerned, it is merely a preliminary order declaring that the Board of Revenue has jurisdiction in the present case under that section but no final order has yet been passed on the merits of the case. It is contended that on this question of jurisdiction this Court ought to inte