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act wrongfully done, in addition to the existing right of mandamus; the burden of proving such incompetency and inconsistent conduct as a question of fact, shall be upon the defendant. But the provisions of this act shall not be construed to apply to the position of private secretary or deputy of any official or department, or to any other person holding a strictly confidential position.'

It is apparent that the legislation culminating in the act of 1894 has nothing primarily to do with what is called the "civil service system." It was intended to create a privileged class, entitled to preferential employment in subordinate positions in the public service, the foundation of the preference being meritorious service as soldiers and sailors in the war for the preservation of the Union. The original act, which provided for a preference only in the original appointment or employment, but gave no security of tenure, was supplemented in this respect by the amendment of 1894. The legislation as it now stands not only gives a preference in public appointments and employments to Union soldiers and sailors, but makes the appointees irremovable, except upon the particular grounds specified. The removal clause was intended to prevent interference with their tenure for political or partisan or personal reasons. But the statute recognized the principle that incompetent persons, or those whose conduct was inconsistent with the discharge of their duties, should not be retained in the public service, however meritorious their prior service may have been. The statute operates as a limitation upon the power of removal, which must be observed by the officers or body having the appointing power, and it enacts special remedies for its violation.

In the present case the removal was made for the cause specified in the statute, and nothing appears upon the record tending to show that the power was not exercised in good faith, and in the public interest. The claim that the relator was entitled to prior notice and hearing is not supported by any language in the act. If he was so entitled, it results from some general rule of law implied from the fact that the power of removal was not unrestricted, but could only be exercised for the causes specified. It is important to notice the scope of such an implication, if it exists under the statute in question. The act applies to employés of every grade in the public service or on the public works of the state, and the cities, towns, and villages thereof. The preference is given, not only in clerical or other subordinate positions, but to every person seeking public employment as a laborer on the canals, or on the streets of a city, or in any capacity, however humble. If employment once secured can only be terminated after a notice and hearing, and something akin to a formal adjudication upon evidence, the system would become almost intolerable. Many things difficult to define in words, which show incompetency in an employé, or disregard of his duty, and which would justify dismissal in the mind of a reasonable employer, would often elude a

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formal investigation. There are many statutes on the statute book
relating to the employment and removal of police officers, clerks, and
employés in municipalities, which expressly or by implication require
that the power of removal shall only be for cause, after notice and
hearing of the person whose removal is contemplated. The practice
of legislation in this state has been to insert a provision for notice
and hearing when this has been intended. City of New York, Con-
solidation Act (Laws 1873, c. 335) § 25; Id. (Laws 1882, c. 410) §§
250, 272, 314; City of Brooklyn, Laws 1888, c. 583, tit. 22, § 29;
City of Buffalo, Laws 1870, c. 519, tit. 13, § 3.

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The acts cognate to the act of 1894, viz. chapter 119 of the Laws Prior that req

of 1888 and chapter 577 of the Laws of 1892, restricting the power of
removal of Union soldiers or sailors holding official employment in
cities and counties, contain a provision that removals shall not be
made "except for cause shown after a hearing had." In view of the

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course of legislation, and the scope of the act of 1894, we are of opin- Omuss signefet

ion that the Legislature intentionally omitted to insert a similar pro-
vision in the statute in question.

We concur in the conclusion of the General Term that the Legis-
lature, having prescribed the grounds of removal in the act of 1894,
left it to the removing power to determine whether the facts existed
which authorized a removal, subject to responsibility for any willful
or perverse action, and that no notice is required to be given to the
person whose removal is contemplated, before the power can be ex-
ercised.

The order should be affirmed. All concur. Order affirmed."
Pal Code 875 878 368 as amended 1915.

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6 STATE v. LAMOS.

(Supreme Court of Maine, 1846. 26 Me. 258.)'

A complacet when rego must be re TENNEY, J. The defendant is charged in the indictment with the writ et forth offense of presuming to be and of being a common innholder, be- specifically the tween the 1st day of June and the time of finding the bill at the term charges & the time according to law, and without being duly authorized therefor. It of the allegesach

of the court holden in October, 1843, without being licensed therefor

was admitted by the defendant that he carried on the business of a
common innholder as alleged in the indictment, and by the prosecuting
officer that he was duly licensed as such for the period during which

46 See In re Guden, 171 N. Y. 529, 64 N. E. 451 (1902). See, also, Shurtleff v. United States, 189 U. S. 311, 23 Sup. Ct. 535, 47 L. Ed. 828 (1903).

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ADMINISTRATIVE POWER AND ACTION.

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the offense was alleged to have been committed, with the restriction
not to sell spirituous liquors. But it was insisted by the latter that
the defendant's license was legally revoked on August 5, 1843.

The defendant not being charged with any other offense than that
of being a common innholder without license, the correctness of the
instructions to the jury, that the evidence authorized a conviction,
must depend upon the legal revocation of that license. The town
officers, who are authorized to grant a license, are empowered also
to revoke it, whenever any instance of a breach of the bond required
by Rev. St. c. 36, § 2, shall have come to their knowledge, and after
complaint, notice to the party complained of, and a hearing thereon.
Chapter 36, § 15.

The power given by the section referred to, to the board, is_important, and its exercise may materially affect the interests of those against whom complaints may be made. Their jurisdiction, like that of all inferior magistrates, must appear affirmatively, and cannot be presumed, or inferred. The authority to give a hearing, and to revoke a license, is not conferred without a complaint, and a notice to the party complained of.

It is not necessary that the complaint should be in writing, signed and sworn to as the law requires in complaints in criminal proceedings before a magistrate, to authorize him to issue a warrant; neither is it indispensable that it should be signed by any one; but the language used in the statute implies that the word "complaint" is to be understood in its legal sense.

A breach of the bond of a person licensed may come to the knowledge of the board. This alone is not sufficient to give a hearing after notice; but a complaint is necessary. The Legislature could not have. intended to have made a distinction between simple information of the breach, and that information given verbally to the board, by way of complaint. Such would be senseless. But it was evidently their purpose that after the fact of a breach should become known to them, before they could give the notice to the person accused of having committed it, and proceed to a hearing, the complaint should be in writing and contain an allegation of the charges, with specifications, and the time when the breach took place. Of all these the party complained of was entitled to reasonable notice, that he might know particularly what he was called upon to answer, and have opportunity to produce proof that the charges were unfounded. Without this, there would be a looseness which would be perfectly anomalous in all proceedings of the same general character. There would be an uncertainty whether the evidence adduced at the hearing had relation to the charges of which he had notice, or others, which were Reas. distinct therefrom. If the license should be revoked, it could not appear whether it was upon satisfactory proof of the charges alleged, when no record or document existed to show what they were.

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therein stated that the undersigned, being a major part of the li-
censing board, after notifying him of their intention so to do, gave
him a hearing on the charges preferred against him, and being satis-
fied, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he has failed to keep the Wad-
leigh House, according to the restrictions and conditions of his bond.
and license, did revoke said license, rendering it of no effect, inform-
ing him at the same time of the fact. No written complaint or copy
thereof was introduced at the trial as the basis of the proceedings of
the board, nor was there evidence that any was before them at the
hearing. The order of revocation was introduced without objection,
but if it contained no statement showing a jurisdiction in the board,
it certainly was insufficient for that purpose; and it contains nothing cases in accord
which indicates that they proceeded under a written complaint. It
does not state what charges were preferred against the defendant;
and they could have jurisdiction only on complaint of a charge that
the condition in the bond, which the law authorized them to insert, had
been broken. Crosby v. Snow et al., 16 Me. 121.

The board found the defendant guilty of not keeping the Wad-
leigh House according to the conditions and restrictions of his bond
and license, and for that cause his license was revoked. Whether
this was the charge preferred against him or not, or whether the
conditions and restrictions in the bond and license, which they found
he failed to observe were those which could be legally required, even
if written complaint was not necessary, no proof was adduced to
show.
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10 PEOPLE ex rel. SHUSTER v. HUMPHREY et al.
(Court of Appeals of New York, 1898. 156 N. Y. 231, 50 N. E. 860.)

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making an illegal arrest. So notified Appeal from Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Depart-ismesst!! found

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Application by the people, on the relation of Adam Shuster, for a guilty of the charge writ of certiorari against William A. Humphrey and others, Com-competency missioners of Police of the City of Poughkeepsie. From an order ryg to decems the of the Appellate Division, made by a divided court (22 App. Div. odid. 632, 48 N. Y. Supp. 1112), affirming a dismissal of relator from the police force of the city of Poughkeepsie, he appeals. Reversed.

On certiovarian

VANN, J. On the 15th of April, 1895, the relator was appointed afferm of order of

a patrolman of the city of Poughkeepsie, after passing the civil serv- dismissal was
ice examination as provided by law. He was a veteran of the Civil
War, and had never served in the Confederate army or navy. After

47 See, also, State v. Kellogg, 14 Mont. 426, 36 Pac. 957 (1894); Lillien-
feld's Case, 92 Va. 818, 23 S. E. 882 (1896); State ex rel. Sullivan v. Tomah,
80 Wis. 198, 49 N. W. 753 (1891); Pehrson v. Ephraim City, 14 Utah, 147, 46
Pac. 657 (1896) Czarra v. Board of Medical Supervisors, 24 App. D. C. 251
(1904)*+

reversed.

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serving two years in the Union army and receiving an honorable discharge, he enlisted in the navy, and served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged from that branch of the service also. On the 5th of May, 1897, he was charged by the mayor of the city "with having made an illegal arrest, in that, without a warrant and without probable cause, he, on or about April 23d, 1897, illegally arrested and detained and brought to the station house one Lewis Richardson, and declined to make a charge against him, whereupon said Richardson was discharged by the sergeant in charge." On the 7th of May following, he was tried upon this charge, and evi

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warrant, for a misdemeanor not committed in his presence, upon the complaint of a man who claimed that the person arrested had assaulted him, and that he was drunk and disorderly. At the instant that this complaint was made, the alleged wrongdoer was running away, and the relator placed him under arrest, and took him to police headquarters, with the understanding that the complainant was to follow immediately, and make a formal complaint. Upon arriving at the police station, the relator declined to make any charge himself against the prisoner, who, as the complainant did not appear, was discharged, after a detention not exceeding five minutes in duration.

As the relator was an honorably discharged soldier, and had never served in the Confederate army or navy, the commissioners had no power to remove him "except for cause shown after a hearing had." Laws 1892, c. 577. The charter of the city of Poughkeepsie, which is a public act, provides that the board of police commissioners of that

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tion of any legal offense, or neglect of duty, or violation of rules, or absence without leave, or any conduct injurious to the public peace or welfare, or immoral conduct, or conduct unbecoming an officer, or other breach of discipline, by reprimand, forfeiting or withholding pay for a special time, or dismissal from the force, but no more than thirty days' pay shall be forfeited for any offense." Laws 1896, c. 425, §§ 141, 193.

The relator was entitled to a trial upon charges preferred, and the commissioners had no right to remove him until after they had duly convicted him on one or more of such charges. This is neces'sarily implied from the words "hearing," "cause shown," "conviction," etc., as used in said statutes. After a lawful conviction upon a definite charge made under the statute, they had the right to remove him for that "cause shown," but they had no right to remove him for a cause not appearing in the charge preferred, and not embraced in the issue that was tried. They could not convict him of one thing, and remove him for another. If they convicted him of making an illegal arrest, they could not remove him on that ground, and on one or more other grounds not embraced in the charge nor covered by the evi

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