New York Supreme Court November 15, 1887 (People ex rel. Decker v. Police Commissioners)

LandoN, J.:

The relator is, and for many years has been, one of the patrolmen of the police force of the city of Albany, and up to February 1, 1887, had received a salary of $900 per year, payable seventy-five dollars monthly. The board of police commissioners, by resolution, assumed to fix his salary, from and after that date, at only $600 per year. -The statute (chap.