¶1The notice of appeal served herein was in time. The statutes relating to
¶2the board of claims, existing in 1897, provided (Laws 1883, c. 205, § 10, as amended by chapter 4'51, Laws 1896): “The appeal must be taken within thirty days after the service of notice of the final award or order of the board.” It also provided (section 3, as amended by chapter 365, Laws 1888): “Said board shall have authority to establish rules for its government, and the forms and methods of procedure before it.” The rules established by said board provided: “Appeals from the final order or award of the board in any claim must he taken within thirty days after service of such final order or award.” The letters written by the clerk of the board of claims to the attorney for the claimant herein did not amount to a service of the final order or award. Motion denied, with $10 costs.