AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE HELD AT no.9-18 PUBLIC LIBRARY PHILADELPHIA; OCTOBER: 1-2, 1889. WITH THE ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT HON. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS AND OTHER PAPERS. NEW YORK PUBLISHED FOR THE NATIONAL CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE Publications of the National Civi:-Service Reform League Per 100, Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the National Civil-Service Per copy, 10 cts. Per 100, Per copy, 8 cts. Per 100, $5.00 $5.00 $5.00 $5.00 $5 00 The Year's Work in Civil-Service Reform. (Address of 1884.) By George William Curtis. Civil-Service Reform under the present National Administration. (Address of 1885.) By George William Curtis. The Situation. (Address of 1886.) By George William Curtis. Address to the Voters of the United States. By George William Curtis. Per copy, I ct. The Selection of Laborers. By James M. Bugbee of the Mass. C. S. Commission. Per copy, 2 cts. Per 100, Per 100 $125 $1 25 The same in German. Per copy, 2 cts. Report of the Special Committee on the present Condition of the Reform Movement, March 16, 1887. Civil Service Reform as a Moral Question. By Chas. J. Bonaparte. Per 100, 60 cts. Constitution of the National Civil-Service Reform League. PUBLICATIONS OF THE NEW YORK CIVIL-SERVICE II. The Beginning of the Spoils System in the National Gov- III. The Spoils System and Civil-Service Reform in the CustomHouse and Post-Office at New York. By Dorman B. Eaton. 136 pages, 8vo. Per copy, 15 cts. Per 100, $10 00 IV. Civil-Service Reform in the New York Custom-House. By Willard Brown. Per copy, 5 cts. Per 100, $3.00 V. Term and Tenure of Office. By Dorman B. Eaton. Per copy, 25 cts. Second edition, abridged. Per copy, 15 cts. Per 100, VII. The Danger of an Office-Holding Aristocracy. $10 00 Daniel Webster and the Spoils System. An extract from Senator Bayard's oration at Dartmouth College, June, 1882. Per copy, 3 cts. Per 100, $150 This book belongs to the PUBLIC. YOU are one of the public. Take care of YOUR OWN PROPERTY and see that others do not injure it. CITY ORDINANCE No. 17.549. SEC. 3. Every person who shall willfully and wantonly cut, mutilate, mark. tear, write upon, deface, or otherwise destroy or injure, in whole or in part, any book, pamphlet, periodical, map, document, picture, or written or engraved or printed paper, belonging to the Public (Free) Library, or shall suffer any such injury to be inflicted while such property is in his custody, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in the sum of not more than $100. Unless otherwise reported, the last borrower will be held responsible for any imperfections discovered. HE Executive Committee of the League met in June, 1889, THE and after careful consideration of the question as to where the approaching anrúal meeting should be held. the determination of the same was refered to the President and Secretary, with instructions to communicate with the secretaries of the Associations in Chicago and in Philadelphia, and to call the meeting at their discretion in one or other of these cities in accordance with the replies which they should receive. In pursuance of this discretion the ninth annual meeting of the League was duly called and held in the city of Philadelphia on the first and second of October, 1889. The address of the President, Mr. George William Curtis, was delivered in Association Hall at 8 o'clock, on the evening of the 1st, before a large audience, and was as follows: |