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...communication of the grounds presupposes the formulation of the grounds and the formulation of the grounds requires and enures the application of the mind of the detaining authority to the facts and material before it that is to say to pertinent and proximate matters in regard to each individual case and excludes the elements of arbitrariness and atumatism (if one may be permitted to use the word to describe a mechanical reaction without conscious application of mind). It is an unwritten rule of law constitutional and administrative that whenever a decision making function is entrusted to the subjective satisfaction of the statutory functionary, there is an implicit obligation to apply his mind to pertinent and proximate matters only, eschewing the irrelevant and the remote, where there is further an express statutory obligation to communicate not merely the decision but also the grounds on which the decision is founded it is a necessary corollary that the grounds communicated that is grounds so made known should be seen to pertain to pertinent and proximate matters....