Excerpt from Special Message of Gov. M. E. Hay, to the Extraordinary Session of the Legislature of 1909: And Report and Findings of the Legislative Investigating Committee of the State of Washington, Authorized by House Concurrent Resolution No. 16 At a meeting held in Seattle on June 2ud, your committee made a verbal report to the Governor, informing him of the conditions it had found existing in some of our state offices and of the recommendations the written report would contain, also suggesting the advisability of calling your honorable body to gether for the purpose of considering and acting upon its report. 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.