Excerpt from Report of the Executive Committee of the New York Civil Service Reform Association: Read at the Annual Meeting, May 13, 1903; List of Members, Etc Realizing the importance 'to the integrity of the merit system in this State of the attitude of the Gov cruor toward the civil service law, letters were ad dressed last autumn to the Republican and Demo cratic candidates. In each case satisfactory replies, announcing their intention to enforce the law, were received. At the time of the campaign, also, a circular letter was sent to the heads of depart ments and to the press generally, calling atten tion to the provisions of the civil service law in regard to political assessments. Governor Odell, the successful candidate, while open to criticism in his attitude toward the merit system for sign ing certain bills referred to in our last report and for using his influence, from time to time, to se cure the approval by the State Commission of exemptions from competitive examination, has, nevertheless, in other respects, upheld the civil service law, and it has been felt that he could be relied upon to prevent the bills threatening to destroy the sys tem from becoming laws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.