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This is an appeal from a judgment ordering the issuance of a writ of mandate directed to the defendants, the State Board of Control, and also the members of said board, requiring them to audit and allow the claim of the plaintiff against the state treasury for the sum of two hundred dollars for his salary as an employee of the California State Conservation Commission for the month of July, 1912. Concerning the facts of the case there is no material dispute. .The plaintiff, who is an attorney at law, was employed on or about July 1,1911, by the California State Conservation Commission under the provisions of an act creating said commission (Stats. 1911, p. 822), by the terms of which it was an thorized to employ, for the purposes for which it was created, “such expert, technical, professional and clerical assistants, and upon such terms as it may deem proper. ’ ’ The particular service which the plaintiff was employed to perform was “to compile for the use of said State Conservation Commission the laws of the different nations, the federal government and the states of the Union affecting conservation generally.” The plaintiff proceeded under such employment to do such work; and…