Excerpt from Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the United States Civil Service Commission: For the Year Ended June 30, 1907 Before discussing in detail the work of the year, it is proper to state that since the submission of its last report the Commission has lost the valuable services of Commissioner Alford W. Cooley, but it is a pleasure to state that the loss to the Commission is a gain to the Department of Justice, as Mr. Cooley resigned to accept an appoint ment to the office of Assistant attorney-general in that Department. 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.