MOOTHAM, J.:- These three applications can conveniently be dealt with in one order. The three applicants were members of the Municipal Board of Kasganj in the district of Etah. On or about the 25th March, 1949, each of them was served with a notice requiring him, under sub-S.(4) of S.40 of the Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916, to furnish an explanation of certain acts specified in the notice which it was alleged constituted a flagrant abuse of his position as a member of the Board. Each of them submitted an explanation, but by an order dated the 24th November, 1949, they were informed that the Governor had come to the conclusion that their continuance as members of the Municipal Board was detrimental to the public interest and that he had ordered their removal forthwith from membership of the Kasganj Municipal Board. The applicants made representations to me Government against the order of removal, but their representations were rejected on the 14th December, 1950, and on the 24th February, 1951, they filed the present applications in which, - in the lax way in which such applications are sometimes presented to this Court, - the applicants ask for "a writ, order or d