Fitzgerald

The petitioners, consisting of a considerable number of the employees of the department of public works of the city and county of San Francisco, have applied for a writ of mandate whereby they seek to have this court direct the board of supervisors of said city and county and the members thereof to adopt a tax rate and levy a tax for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, sufficient to pay the said petitioners certain amounts in the way of added compensation fixed by said board of public works by a resolution thereof adopted May 18, 1927, for the services performed and to be performed by said petitioners as the employees of said board during said fiscal year. The petition herein discloses that on the sixth day of June, 1927, the said board of supervisors, purporting to act pursuant to the provisions of section 3, chapter 1, article III, of the charter of said municipality, adopted a certain ordinance providing for the sums respectively to be allowed to the various departments, officers, boards, and commissions thereof for said fiscal year, and making a budget of the same; and that in so doing the said board made a budget of the amount estimated to be required to pay the expenses of…