A writ of mandamus is not an available remedy to compel the discharge of a duty of a commissioner appointed by the court to partition lands. Evans v. White, 178 Ga. 262 (172 S. E. 913). The duties of a commissioner appointed by the court to partition lands, under Chapter 85-15 of the Georgia Code of 1933, are purely administrative, and to issue a mandamus to require one of the commissioners to act would be the equivalent of the court ordering *505itself to act. Failure to act might be grounds for contempt proceedings but not for mandamus.

Judgment affirmed.