Veto Message
07/05/1886
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The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.
No modification of the existing regulations shall be made without the approval of the Civil Service Commission.
I only discharge a duty to our people when I interpose my disapproval of the legislation proposed.
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4526, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Jonathan Scott.'