Falk

Application for a writ of mandate, commanding the defendant, as treasurer of the city and county of San Francisco, to pay to plaintiff certain audited demands held by him against said city and county. It appears from the petition that on September 6, 1886, the board of election commissioners for said city and county resolved “ that an agent be and he is hereby employed and commissioned by the board of election commissioners of the city and county of San Francisco, with such clerical assistants as may be necessary, not to exceed fifteen clerks, to be appointed by this board, to take all necessary, active, and efficient measures to scrutinize the rolls, and to prevent frauds in the present registration for the coming general election, and for the purpose of enabling this board to discharge its duties in connection with the appointment of precinct boards *515 of registration satisfactorily. Said agent shall detail a sufficient number of clerks to assist the commission in the discharge of its duty in selecting said precinct boards, and that in this behalf the registrar is requested to furnish him and his assistants such information and facilities as will enable them properly to…