Scope and Content: The Civil Service Commission was established in 1884.  It was abolished in 1919 and its functions transferred to the Division of Civil Service.  It was revived as a separate body in 1939 and reconstituted in the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1974.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Appendix: Boston appointments, 1910-1930 (2 v.). St 1909, c 486, s 10 provided for the commission to pass on certain Boston municipal mayoral appointments, a provision renewed by St 1919, c 350, s 66 (GL 1921 c 31, s 2) but rescinded by St 1930, c 167, s 2. –Appendix: Regulations, 1917-1937, with index. Other rulings may be found among the decision volumes.

Appendix: Album of commissioners–photographic portraits, 1884-1940; listings, 1884-1987.

Appendix: Carl Russell Fish. Political patronage in the United States. Thesis (Ph.D.) –Harvard University, 1900.

Appendix: President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement. Report. Feb. 1941. With original signatures. Copy of Kenneth C. Vipond, staff assistant.
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