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HELD AT

NEW YORK, MAY 29-30, 1888.

WITH THE ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT

HON. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

NEW YORK:

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PROCEEDINGS

AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF

THE NATIONAL CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE

HELD AT.

NEW YORK, MAY 29-30, 1888.

WITH THE ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT

HON. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED FOR THE

NATIONAL CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE

PRESS OF

WILLIAM S. GOTTSBERGER

II MURRAY ST., N. Y.

ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

NATIONAL CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE.

MAY 29-30, 1888.

In accordance with authority given to the Executive Committee at the annual meeting held August 3, 1887, and pursuant to a call duly issued by direction of that Committee, the 8th annual meeting of the National Civil-Service Reform League was held in the city of New York on the 29th and 30th of May, 1888. The address of the President Mr. George William Curtis, was delivered at 8:30, on the evening of the 29th, in Chickering Hall, before an attentive and sympathetic audience which crowded the house, and was as follows: