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Abstracts from Assembly Bill No. 318 (Chapter 713), approved 

 June 10, 1915, being: 



An act to provide for the creation of the State Commission Market, and the organiza- 

 tion thereof, to carry on the business of receiving from the producers thereof, the 

 agricultural, fishery, dairy and farm products of the State of California and 

 selling and disposing of such products on commission, creating the "State Com- 

 mission Market Fund" and appropriating money therefor. 



SECTION 1. There is hereby created the State Commission Market, a state organi- 

 zation, to carry on the business of receiving from the producers thereof, the agricul- 

 tural, 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 management and con- 

 trol 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. 



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SEC. 5. All producers of agricultural, dairy or farm products, or products manu- 

 factured or processed therefrom, or fishery products, which shall have been grown, 

 raised, produced, processed or manufactured within the State of California, or 

 caught in the territorial waters thereof, shall have the right to consign and deliver 

 such products to the State Commission Market, at any of its depots or branches, for 

 sale and distribution. 



SEC. 6. The State Commission Market shall receive and care for all produce 

 consigned and delivered to it under the provisions of this act, and shall sell and 

 distribute to dealers, consumers and all buyers such products to the best possible ad- 

 vantage of the producer ; and, to the end that the State Commission Market be self- 

 supporting, shall charge a commission for the handling of all products in an amount 

 which in the judgment of the director is just and reasonable. All settlements with 

 producers shall be made once a month or oftener, and the market shall retain the 

 commission charged. 



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SEC. 8. The market shall have a bureau of correspondence for gathering and 

 disseminating information on all subjects relating to the marketing of California 

 products, and shall issue booklets thereon, and by every practicable means keep the 

 producers informed of the supply and demand and at what market their products can 

 best be handled. 



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SEC. 16. The director shall make and submit to the Governor, on or before the 

 first day of December of each year, a report containing a full and complete account of 

 its transactions and proceedings for the preceding fiscal year, together with such 

 other facts, suggestions and recommendations as may be deemed of value to the 

 people of the State. 



