• Upon the uncontroverted facts/it would seem that the relator would be entitled to tlie relief -which she seeks in this proceeding but for the fact that on the 1st day' of January, 1898, when the Greater New York charter went into effect, she was not a teacher in any of the civil divisions consolidated and merged into the greater city. Relator was first. licensed to teach July 1, 1871, by the city superintendent of public schools' in the former city of Brooklyn, and again on June 7, 1879, by the city superintendent of the former city, of New York. It may be assumed that she served in teaching employment in the schools of those cities under, such, licenses respectively. It appears from the record and was admitted on the argu- . ment that in September, 1881, she resigned her position as teacher . in the department of education in -the then city of New York and remained out of the service for eighteen year's thereafter. On J anil ary 1, 1898, she was not teaching in any of the schools' of the territory embraced within the present city. It is inferred that her present employment began in the year 1899. The right to the relief
Section 1103 of the original charter (section 1090 of the amended charter) provides for the' promotion of principals and teachers “from the list of properly certificated principals and teachers and other persons eligible for service in the schools of the borough in' the positions to be filled.”
Relator asks that the defendant city superintendent be required to place her name upon the eligible list (by whatever name said list be known) of persons holding “ Teacher’s license for promotion ” in the elementary public schools in the. city of Mew York at the same point upon the said eligible list, relatively^ to the other names thereon as that at which her name would have appeared if her name had been placed thereon as required by the section first cited. .
It was said in People ex rel. Sprague v. Maxwell (87 App. Div. 391): “ It is clear that the Legislature intended in providing for
. Inasmuch as relator was not engaged in- teaching within such limits when the charter took effect slie is not-entitled to the-benefit of the -sections, above cited.' ■ - ■ '
It follows that the .relator’s application for a peremptory writ- of-mandamus should be denied, with twenty-five- dollars- -costs.-