To compel respondent to desist from teaching convicts in the State Prison the mechanical trade of wagon making, and from manufacturing wagons in said prison with convict labor.-

Denied 1856.

Held, that it is for the agent of the prison to determine the question what trades are within the- constitutional provision, and that the court will not interfere by mandamus to control the agent in the exercise of his discretion.

Whether a private individual can apply for a writ in such case, quere.