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fit themselves for their business, as if it were to be their permanent employment. Honorable and talented men were unwilling to engage in the scramble for place for the pitiful salaries and the uncertain tenure of office offered. Civil Service reform has replaced the old system of selec tion by one from which no honorable man need shrink, but the granting of adequate pay seems as far away as ever. Were justice done in this respect, there would be no reason why the public service should not offer a career for the most honorable ambition, and tempt from private pursuits young men of the brightest talents to adopt it as a life-long vocation.

Respectfully submitted:

J. H. SAVILLE,

E. O. GRAVES,

S. I. KIMBALL,

Board of Examiners.

The ADVISORY BOARD OF THE CIVIL SERVICE.

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