Application to the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco.

The petition stated that said Board met as a Board of Equalization on the first Monday in July, 1872, and continued in session until August 6th, 1872, and that there had been assessed by the Assessor and placed on the assessment roll, among other property, the following:

Security Savings Bank—

Amount of money.................................... §9,731 33

Value of personal property (solvent debts)... §313,962 77

German Savings and Loan Society— Amount of money................................... §50,000 00

Value of personal property (solvent debts)... §2,029,021 00

Odd Fellows’ Savings and Loan Society— - Amount of money................................... §10,000 00

Value of personal property (solvent debts)... Pacific Bank— §3,080,793 00

Amount of money................................... §290,000 00

San Francisco Savings Union— Amount of money....................... §50,000 00

Value of personal property (solvent debts)... §4,227,910 00

Hibernia Savings and Loan Society— Amount of money.................................. §150,000 00

Value of personal property (solvent debts)... §11,354,532 00

Masonic Savings and Loan Bank— Amount of money.................................. $20,000,00

Value of personal 'property (solvent debts)... $865,000 00

Humboldt Savings and Loan Society— Amount of money................................... $30,000 00

Value of personal property (solvent debts)... $507,303 00

French Mutual Provident Savings and Loan Society. (La Societe Francaiso d’Epargnes et de Prevoyance Mutuelle) Amount of money................................... $82,000 00

Value of personal property (solvent debts).. $4,954,583 73

Land Mortgage Union— Amount of money................................... $33,907 00

Savings and Loan Society— Amount of money................................... $100,000 00

Value of personal property (solvent debts)... $7,968,740 40

That said Board on the last named day had made an order canceling said assessments, and that in pursuance of said order lines had been drawn across the same.

The petition alleged that the Board had exceeded its powers, and that unless the order was set aside the Tax Collector would not collect the taxes, and the State would be deprived of about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars of its revenue.

The answer did not deny the allegations of the petition, but set up applications made by the parties assessed to have the order made, which applications gave numerous reasons why it should be done, which it is unnecessary to notice, as the decision touches only the question of the power vested in the Board.