Basnayake Nilame V. The Attorney General

Present  : Shaw J. and De Sampayo A.J.   1915.

BASNAYAKE NILAME v. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

245-D. C. Kandy, 22,466.

Kandyan Convention of 1815, Article 5-Subsequent legislation relating to processions and music-Actions in Municipal Courts to enforce rights under the Contention.

Article 5 of the Kandyan Convention does not invalidate the provisions of subsequent legislative enactments relating to processions and music.

THE facts appear from the judgment.

Anton Bertram, K.C., Attorney-General, and van Langenberg, K.C., Solicitor-General (with V. M. Fernando, C.C.), for defendant, appellant.

Bawa, K.C. (with him E. W. Perera and D. R. Wijewardene), for plaintiff, respondent.

Cur. adv. vult.

February 2, 1915. SHAW J.-

The plaintiff brought this action in his capacity as Basnayake Nilame of the Wallahagoda dewale against the Attorney-General as representing the Crown, claiming a declaration that he as such Basnayake Nilame is entitled to the right and privilege of holding and conducting a perahera procession, by which the Basnayake Nilame of the Wallahagoda temple, with the retainers and tenants of the said temple, has

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