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FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



BUREAU OF PATROL 



E. L. Macaulat, Chief 



The writer took charge of the Patrol Department January 1, 1929, 

 the acting chief of patrol at that time becoming assistant chief in the 

 San Francisco office. The personnel of the Patrol Department consists 

 at the present time of a chief at San Francisco, two assistant chiefs, 

 one at San Francisco and one at Los Angeles; sixteen captains (one in 

 charge of volunteer deputies with headquarters at San Francisco), 103 

 deputies and two stenographers. 



Fig. 9. A fish and game deputy (W. H. Armstrong) 

 in 1900 in a costume often worn in those days. 



The division of the state into patrol districts, each ander the charge 

 of a captain of patrol, mentioned in the twenty-ninth biennial report, 

 has been continued with very satisfactory results. A recapitulation of 

 the arrests and convictions and fines imposed will be found in the 

 appendix on page 154. 



During the spring of 1929, civil service examinations were held. 

 Fifty of the deputies at that time were not on the civil service eligible 



