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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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652 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [February 16, classified list, we are to apply to the Commission, but whenever the employee becomes unsatisfactory, we will discharge him without any notice to the Commission. Some embarrassment might arise in the event the Commission should undertake to supplant an employee in service, not within the classified list by someone in the classified list, but we shall not concede the right of the Commission to take any such action. Sincerely yours, O. A. HARKER [OPINION] People ex ret Redman vs Board of Trustees University of Illinois The petition in. this case was filed on the relation of Charles H. Redman, praying a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to draw a pay roll or account in his behalf for five months salary as a carpenter, certified under the civil service act, and directing the auditor of public accounts to draw a warrant upon the State Treasurer therefor and the State Treasurer to pay said warrant for said salary. The petition avers that on July 10, 1915, he was admitted to examination for the position of carpenter of the University of Illinois in pursuance of an act of the Legislature entitled "An Act to regulate Civil Service of the State of Illinois, approved May 11, 1905, in force November 1, 1905," as subsequently amended; that relator passed said examination and was placed by said Civil Service Commission upon the list or register containing names of those eligible to the position of carpenter for the University of Illinois, under classified Civil Service of this State. Said petition further avers that thereafter he was duly certified by the Civil Service Commission for the position of carpenter for the University of Illinois, and not as a common laborer, at a salary of not less than $60 per month; that on September 7, 1915, by appointment of said Civil Service he assumed his duties under the classified service, "at a salary payable monthly agreed to be paid him by said University of $3.60 per day, to-wit, 40 cents an hour with a working day of 9 hours per day and with employment of 6 days of each week, to-wit, every day of the week except Sunday." Said petition further avers that the relator continued in said service and received pay as stated above until December 27, 1916, at which time he was informed by the Foreman of the Carpenter Force that he was laid off; that the relator appeared the next morning and tendered his services but was informed he would not be put to work at that time but might later on. Said petition further avers, in effect, that no attempt was made by the University of Illinois to comply with the provisions of the Civil Service regulations with reference to the discharge or laying off of persons in its employ under the Civil Service act; that from time to time he tendered his services to the University up until the latter part of June, 1917; that at that
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