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Since high-grade talent must be secured in connection with the 

 successful development of the co-operative marketing system, most 

 organizations have found it advantageous to extend the activities of 

 the institution to the purchase of consumable supplies. The object 

 is to provide profitable continuous employment for a competent 

 manager, rather than to attempt to operate on an intermittent plan. 

 Competent executives cannot be had except on a permanent basis. 

 It is evident, therefore, that unless the activities are extended few 

 associations will be able to afford high-grade management. 



F. Government Market Bureaus 

 176. CALIFORNIA'S "STATE COMMISSION MARKETS" 



a) THE LAW 1 



The people of the State of California do enact as follows: 



SECTION i. There is hereby created the state commission mar- 

 ket, a state organization to carry on the business of receiving from the 

 producers thereof, the agricultural, fishery, dairy, and farm products 

 of the State of California and the selling and disposing of the same 

 on commission, as herein provided. 



SEC. 2. The state commission market shall be under the manage- 

 ment and control of a governing body of one person, to be known as 

 the state commission market director, who shall be appointed by the 

 governor of the State of California. 



SEC. 3. The commission market director shall establish and 

 maintain in any and all cities and towns in the state where and when 

 the conditions are in his judgment most suitable, depots or stations 

 to be used as commission markets, for the receiving, care, sale, and 

 distribution of the agricultural, fishery, dairy, and farm products of 

 California, and the director shall establish and maintain an executive 

 office or headquarters at Sacramento. 



SEC. 4. The commission market director shall make all neces- 

 sary rules and regulations, and change the same when necessary, for 

 the operation and carrying on of the state commission market, and 

 shall print the rules for free distribution to all persons who wish to 

 avail themselves of the privileges of the market, whether buyers or 

 sellers, and all buyers and sellers shall conform to such rules and regu- 

 lations in order to claim any right under this act. 



x Chap. 713, Acts of 1915 (Assembly Bill No. 318). Approved June 10, 1915. 



