Hovey

This is another petition for a mandamus to the controller of state. Hobody appears upon the part of the state, and I am asked to take as confessed, the allegations of the petition; supposing they are all true, I shall deny this application.

The petition alleges, that by the appropriation act, of 1856, the sum of three thousand dollars was appropriated to defray the expenses of translating the laws; that one Eldredge, was selected for the performance of this duty, by a joint committee of the two houses that by the authority of said .committee, Eldredge proceeded to' translate into the Spanish language, the laws of 1856; that he completed the work as soon as possible, and delivered it to the secretary of state, on the 8th .day of May, 185T, presenting, at the same time, to that officer, a bill against the state, for the sum of six hundred and twenty-three dollars, for such translation; that such claim of Eldredge was afterwards presented to 'the board of examiners, and by them approved; that Eldredge, for a valuable consideration, assigned said claim to the petitioner * that petitioner presented said claim to the controller, who rejected it, and the petitioner .concludes with a…