To require the respondents to act upon a claim of the relator for extra compensation for services performed in the compilation of the Compiled Laws of 1871, in accordance with the provisions of a joint resolution of the legislature of 1875.
Denied June 9, 1875.
Held, that the board of State auditors are made by the constitution an independent tribunal, over which the courts have no supervisory control, and the Supreme Court- has no jurisdiction by mandamus to coerce or direct their action.