State ex rel. Harney v. Hastings

By the Court,

PAINE, J.

This was an application for a mandamns to compel tbe treasurer to pay two accounts wbicb bad been audited in favor of tbe relator, one for publishing tbe list of forfeited school lands, and tbe other for publishing tbe list of forfeited swamp lands, in tbe county of Oconto, on tbe order of tbe school land commissioners. Tbe return of tbe treasurer sets forth, that previous to tbe making of tbe order under wbicb tbe relator did tbe work, another order bad been made by tbe commissioners, directing that *597the same work should be done by one Ginty, wbo, it is ayer-red,…