People ex rel. Wilson v. Supervisors of Albany
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an alternative mandamus to the supervisors of the county of Albany, directing them to audit and allow the relator, a constable of the city of Albany, his account for removing certain paupers from the-city oí Albany to the adjoining towns, or to show cause, &e.
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THIS was an alternative mandamus to the supervisors of the county of Albany, directing them to audit and allow the relator, a constable of the city of Albany, his account for removing certain paupers from the-city oí Albany to the adjoining towns, or to show cause, &e. The defendants returned, that at their annual meeting at the capítol, in the city of Albany, on the 1st Tuesday of October, 1814, the relator presented them an account for the removal of several paupers from Albany to the adjacent towns, amounting, in the whole, to 102 dollars, with the certificates of the constables of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Spencer, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court. ■ By the 9th section of the act for the relief and settlement of the poor, (1 R. L. 282.,) any constable conveying a pauper from one town to another, is to receive so much money for his services as the supervisors of the county shall judge he reasonably deserves to have, to be raised, Sec.
The office of a writ of mandamus is, to require the person or persons to whom it is directed to do some particular thing therein specified, which appertains to their office and duty, and which the court issuing it has previously determined, or, at least,…
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