West

Mandate to compel respondents to permit petitioner to exercise the duties of the office of superintendent of schools of the Pasadena City School District and the Pasadena City High School District, and to require respondents to draw a warrant in petitioner’s favor for the sum of $375 in payment of his salary as such superintendent for the month of July, 1919.

On the 24th of June, 1919, the hoard of education of the city of Pasadena held a regular meeting, there being three of the five members constituting the board present. These three members unanimously adopted a resolution or motion for the employment of petitioner to be superintendent of schools for the city of Pasadena for the term of four years, beginning July 1,1919, at a salary of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. On July 2d an adjourned meeting of said board was regularly held, the same three members being present, and it evidently being the apprehension that the action on the 24th of June was not expressed with sufficient formality in the resolution then adopted, the board adopted the following further resolution:

Petitioner having been notified of the action taken by the board at its…