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In this proceeding the plaintiff applied for a writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to appoint some fit and proper person to the office of county coroner of the county of San Bernardino, the plaintiff claiming that there is a vacancy in that office. From a judgment in favor of the defendants, plaintiff appeals.

Pursuant to the provisions of section 7% of article XI of the constitution of California, the charter for the county was adopted at the general election of 1912" and thereafter approved by the legislature. (Stats. 1913, p. 1652 et seq.) That charter consists of seven articles; six of those articles contained sections numbered 4, 5, and 6. Section 4 of article I made it the duty of the board of supervisors, at its first regular meeting after noon of the first Monday after the first day of January, 1915, to appoint each and all of the county officers provided for by the charter or by general law, for a term of four years. Sections 5 and 6 of that article relate to the appointment and duties of deputies in the several county offices.

At the general election held in November, 1914, the electors of San Bernardino County approved an amendment to the county charter, which…