Leddy v. Cornell

In 1907 the legislature passed an act relating to civil service, which provided, among other things, that the governor should appoint three persons as civil service commissioners to perform certain duties therein specified. Section 3 is as follows:

“They (the commissioners) may appoint a secretary who shall be chief examiner, who' shall superintend under their direction any examination under this act, and perform such other duties .as they may prescribe. The secretary shall be paid a salary not to exceed eighteen hundred dollars a year, and his necessary traveling expenses actually incurred in…