State v. Inhabitants of Trenton

The opinion of the court was delivered by ■

Wan Syckel, J.

This controversy involves the construction of the seventeenth section of the charter of the city of Trenton {Pamph. L. 1874, p. 339), which is as follows:

“ That the common council, at the regular meeting on the third Monday in April, or as soon thereafter as circumstances will permit, shall, by the votes of a majority of all its members, appoint a city clerk, one member of the board of city assessors, a city treasurer, a city solicitor, a city marshal, a city surveyor, an overseer of the poor, a street commissioner, a sealer of weights…