Popper

At the session of the legislature in 1897 an act was passed, approved March 8th, to regulate the salaries of certain officers of the police department within municipalities of the first class, as follows:

By another act relating to fire departments of municipalities of the first class, approved March 3d, it is declared:

Said acts, by their terms, were to take effect immediately.

On the 30th of March following this action was brought for the purpose of enjoining the defendant, as auditor of the city and county of San Francisco, from auditing or paying these increased salaries. The complaint, after setting forth in substance the provisions of these two acts, alleges that the salary payable to each of such officers in the city and county of San Francisco is as follows: “President of the board of police commissioners, two hundred and fifty dollars per month; police commissioners, one hundred dollars per month; chief of police, four thousand dollars per annum; captains of police, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; clerk of chief of police and board of police commissioners, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; chief engineer of fire department, two hundred and…