People ex rel. Haughton v. Andrews

Daniels, J.:

Tbe relators, with another person, were appointed by the mayor and aldermen of the city of New York as commissioners of excise for a term of three years from the 1st of May, 1883, and until other commissioners should be appointed in their places. On the 1st of May, 1886, the mayor of the city of New- York appointed William S. Andrews a commissioner of excise for the city in place of Nicholas Houghton, and Charles H. Woodman in place of William P. Mitchell, and John Yon Glahn in place of John J. Morris. The relators deny the power of the Mayor himself to make these appointments.…