Colgan

Petition for writ of mandate. The petition sets forth that by the act of March 11, 1889 (Stats. 1889, p. Ill), as amended March 23, 1893 (Stats. 1893, p. 328), there was established for the use of the Whittier State school a fund, known as the “Whittier Reform School fund,” under which law there has been paid into the state treasury to the credit of said fund $86,012.61, which will be increased by other payments to the sum of about $125,000; avers the purposes of the school and that there are now therein about two hundred and fifty boys and fifty girls;’ that among the various buildings is one called the “Trades Building,” which, as originally constructed, was for temporary use only; describes the building and avers that by reason of its temporary nature and the jarring of the machinery *297 used therein it has become dangerous and liable to collapse, and has been condemned by a competent engineer; and to prevent injury to the life and limb of inmates a necessity has arisen to close and abandon the building; that there is no other building belonging to the school which can be used for the trade departments, and that these departments and buildings for their accommodation are…