People ex rel. Chapoton v. Common Council

Relator is one of the Board of Public Works of Detroit, appointed January 30, 1874, and reappointed for four years from January 30, 1877. On the 11th of February, 1877, his salary was fixed for the ensuing year at $3000, as it had been every year theretofore. December 22d, 1877, it was fixed for the second year at $2500.

He claims this to be in violation of section 23 of chapter 5 of the charter of Detroit, which is as follows:

“The Common Council shall have power to provide for and regulate the election and appointment of all officers, and for their removal from office, and for the filling of…