People ex rel. Banta v. Kneissel

The referee held that the defendant had not been legally appointed to the office of inspector of weights and measures for the first district of the city of New York. Before the appointment of either of the relator or the defendant, the city had by ordinance been divided into two inspection districts (chap. 49, Revised Ordinances of 1845, secs. 1, 2). And while the ordinance was in force and on the 19th of May, 1873, the mayor nominated four persons together to the board of aldermen, as inspectors of weights and measures in the city of New York. At that time there were but two such officers in…