Trustees of Free Public Library v. Civil Service Commission

*197The opinion of the court was delivered by

Voorhees, J.

The prosecutor, by this writ of certiorari, would set aside the action of the state civil service commission in classifying the appointees and employes of “The Trustees of the Eree Public Library of Newark,” as part of the civil service of the municipality of the city of Newark.

The following facts appear: The provisions of an act entitled “'An act to authorize the establishment of free public libraries in the cities of this state” (Paraph. L. 1884, p. 110), were duly accepted by the city of Newark at an election on the 11th day of October,…