State ex rel. Mitchell v. Bloxham

The relator was at the ratification of the present Constitution in 1886, Commissioner of Lands and Immigration under the Constitution of 1868, as amended in 1871, and claims that he continued to be such officer till the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, 1889, and that he was entitled to be paid a salary at the rate of $2,000 per annum. The defendant’s contention is that the relator ceased to be Commissioner of Lands and Immigration, and became Commissioner of Agriculture under the new'Constitution upon its ratification in November 1886, or its becoming operative in January…