People ex rel. Weed-Parsons Printing Co. v. Palmer

The defendant is a state officer. As such the legislature has imposed upon him certain duties. So far as concerns the present application, these are to transmit to each county clerk in the state, at least sixty days before any general election, a sufficient number of copies of the Election Law to furnish one copy to each such county clerk and one to each town, village and city clerk and each inspector of election in the county (Laws of 1892, chap. 680, § 19); to cause to he prepared a sufficient number of suitable blank books for lists and registers of voters, containing blank certificates…