On 18.3.1974 the impugned notification under section 3 A, as quoted below, was issued: "The 18th March 1974 S.R.O. No. 184/74 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub section (1) of section 3 A of the Orissa Estates Abolition Act, 195 l (Orissa Act I of 1952), the State Government do hereby declare that (i) the intermediary interests of all intermediaries whose estates have been declared as trust estates under Chapter Il A of the said Act; (ii) those in respect of which claims and references made under the said chapter were pending on the date of commencement of the Orissa Estates Abolition (Amendment Act, 1970 (Orissa Act 33 of 1970); and (iii) the intermediary interests of all intermediaries in respect of all estates other than those which have already vested in the State have passed to and become vested in the State free from all encumbrances.