The learned Solicitor General, on the other hand, argued that the second proviso to section 19 of the Act had no application, for it dealt only with an extension by notification or otherwise under the provisions of the Act and the statutory extension given by the Maharashtra Act could not possibly be an extension under the Act; that even if the Maharashtra Act had the effect of amending section 25 of the Act with the result that the life of the 698 members of the Municipality was extended by the amendment of the Act itself, it would not help the appellant as the scope of the resolution passed by the Municipality should be construed on the basis of the circumstances existing at the time the resolution was passed, i.e., previous to the election of the President, and at that time the councillors of the Municipality could have only passed the resolution fixing the term of the President during the residue of the life the Municipality had at that time : to put it in other words, the intention of the Councillors, who passed the resolution, could be gathered only from the circumstances, statutory or otherwise, existing at the time the resolution was passed.