Document, Issue 3published for the Women's Auxiliary of the Massachusetts Civil Service Reform Association., 1904 List of members in Annual report, no. 1-7. |
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Page 2 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
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