In re Palmer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by George W. Palmer, as comptroller of the city of Brooklyn, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 18th day of June, 1897, denying his motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding Joseph Benjamin, city clerk of the city .of Brooklyn, to pay into the city treasury the sum of $1,146.
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
There' is no controversy about the facts. The defendant, during the time in question, was city clerk of the city of Brooklyn. He, as such, clerk, had an- annual salary of $4,000. The -money in question was received by the defendant in the performance of the duty imposed upon him as such city clerk by the statute concerning *181“ naturalization and regulating the procedure in cases of naturalization in courts of this State,” which, among other things, provided that a person making application to become a citizen of the United States should give notice to that effect to the clerk of the…
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