People ex rel. Green v. Van Wyck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and.attested on the 26th day of April, 1898, directed to Robert A. Van Wyck,. mayor of the city of New York, commanding him to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the.county of New York all and singular his proceedings in relation to the. removal of the relator, George Walton Green, from his office of aqueduct commissioner of the city" of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The relator was appointed one of the aqueduct commissioners in pursuance of • the provisions of section 1 of chapter 490 of the Laws of 1883, as amended by section 1 of chapter 584 of the Laws of 1888. It is therein provided that the mayor, the comptroller and the commissioner of public works of the city of New York, and four competent persons who shall be appointed within ten days after the passage of. this act by the mayor of the city of New York, “are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to carry out the provisions of this "act, in the manner hereinafter provided, for the…
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