State ex rel. Armstrong v. State Board of Examiners

*496OPINION

This is an original proceeding in mandamus. The record before us discloses that Leola Armstrong, the relator and petitioner, is an unclassified employee of the Legislative Counsel Bureau. The salary for her employment is not fixed by statute; rather, it is a budgeted item. For the fiscal year 1962-63, the Legislative Counsel Bureau submitted its budget which included, inter alia, a request for $7,764 as salary for relator’s position with the Legislative Counsel Bureau. That sum, together with other amounts, was appropriated to the Legislative Counsel Bureau by the 1961 legislature. The…