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 make the assessment this year. The decision in Driscoll v. Jones, (S. Dak.) 44 N. W. Rep. 726, places the same interpretation on the word “vacancy” under very similar facts, and under the same statute relied upon by relator to support his contention. See, also, Walsh v. Com., 89 Pa. St. 419; State v. Boone Co., 50 Mo. 317; Stocking v. State. 7 Ind. 329; State v. Irwin, 5 Ney. 111; and concurring opinion of Thornton, J., in Rosborough v. Boardman, 67 Cal. 116, 7 Pac. Rep. 261.

But it is further insisted by relator that section 10 of the schedule has made the office of county assessor a constitutional office, and has therefore placed the office beyond the power of the legislature during the balance of his term. The portion of the section material to this point provides that, notwithstanding the adoption of the constitution, “the county and precinct officers shall hold their offices for the.term for which they were elected.” It will be observed that this declares no settled policy of the state with reference to these offices. It does not purport to regulate permanently the term of any office, or permanently place that term of the office itself beyond the control of the legislature. The office is not imbedded in the constitution, as is the case with respect to the offices named in section 173 of the constitution. These are constitutional offices. The other offices, including that of county assessor, are offices which, under the express provisions of section 173, the legislature may abolish by creating other offices to take their place. “The legislative assembly shall provide by law for such other county, township, and district officers as may be deemed necessary,” etc. The most that can be claimed, and, in fact, all that is claimed, by relator, is not that the office or term of office is permanently removed from legislative interference, but that the sovereign people have hedged about with constitutional protection these particular persons holding the office of county assessor at the time we attained the dignity of self-government. Sovereign states are not wont to protect particular persons from removal from office by the legislature during their term of office, and yet leave the office and the right of future incumbents entirely to the control of the law-making power. Unless the office is permanently removed from legislative control—unless all incumbents are to be