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delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was an application to the Court below for a mandamus to compel the respondent, as Clerk of the Common Council of the City of San Francisco, to make publication of certain notices in the newspaper called the “Placer Times and Transcript. ”

It is admitted to be the duty of the respondent to make proper publication of such notices, and also, that a mandamus will lie under the 468th section of the Practice Act, at the suit of the appellant, who is interested in the publication.

*389 But it is contended that the Act of May 3d, 1853, entitled “An Act for the better Publication ' of Official and Legal Notices,” indirectly appeals certain provisions of the Charter of the City of San Francisco, and is therefore in violation of the 25th section of the 4th article of the Constitution of this State, which provides: “Every law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace but one object, which shall be expressed in its title.”

* In support of this construction, the decisions of [389] the Supreme Courts of Louisiana and Georgia are relied on. After an examination of these cases, we are^ compelled to differ from the decisions of those Courts upon what we…