Preno Petition

Flood, J.,

We have before us the petitions of two constables, one elected for the twenty-second ward of the City of Philadelphia, and the other *194for the forty-first ward of the city. Each petition asks for the appointment of a deputy constable, and recites that the elected constable, “reposing special trust and confidence” in the person named as deputy, appoints and deputes him to be deputy constable of the ward “with power to officiate in said office, and to do whatsoever, by the laws of the State, appertains to the said office”. No reason is given as to why the appointment should be made, nor…