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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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contractual relations and that this principle is well settled. The language of the court is found at page 161 where it is said: "It is conceded by appellant that mandamus is not the proper remedy to enforce contractual relations, and this principle is well settled. We are therefore brought directly to a consideration of the ordinance with a view of ascertaining whether such ordinance has, in effect, the binding force of law or whether it constitutes a contract." If the employment of the relator rests on a contract between him and the University of Illinois before mandamus would lie the claim of the relator would have to be reduced to a judgment. We are therefore of the opinion that in this case the relator is an employee of the University of Illinois and is not an employee of the State as such, and that the employment of such relator is not covered by the Civil Service laws of the State. The demurrer will be sustained.

FRANKLIN H. BOGGS

These papers were received for record.

DIVISION OF EXAMINATION FOR CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

(9) A letter from Mr. C. M„ McConn, Secretary of the University Committee on Accountancy, concerning the division of the examination for Certified Public Accountants. December 18, 1917 Dr. Edmund J. James, President

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT:

The University Committee on Accountancy has voted to recommend the adoption of the following regulation, to be added to the regulations already adopted by the Board of Trustees on the subject of the examinations for the C. P. A. certificate: A candidate who passes in two or three of the four required subjects and who presents himself at another examination held by the University within one year may have the option at that examination of (1) writing anew on all four subjects or (2) being credited for the subjects he passed in the previous examination with the grades made in that examination and writing only on the one or two subjects in which he previously failed. A candidate who, having chosen the second of these options, fails again in any subject will be required, in case he subsequently appears for examination, to write on all four of the prescribed subjects. This action was taken by the Committee in response to petitions from groups of students enrolled in the Y. M. C. A. School of Commerce, Chicago, the Northwestern University School of Commerce^ DePaul University, and the Walton School of Commerce, to a petition signed by 49 members of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants, including both the account*