10 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



three Commissioners should serve in exactly the same capacity as the 

 directors of any modern corporation, fixing - the broad general policies 

 of the Commission, and divorcing themselves entirely from the admin- 

 istrative and executive work which theretofore had been handled by 

 each Commissioner for his own particular district; and that the Com- 

 missioners should act collectively as a Commission, and that no indi- 

 vidual Commissioner should have the right to determine policies or 

 direct the actual functioning of any department or employee of the 

 Commission. 



The executive officer was to have the same status in the Commission 

 as the general manager of a corporation with all functions of the Com- 

 mission centering in him. In order to do this effectively it was deter- 

 mined that all activities of the Commission, other than those of the 

 three main departments, should be handled by bureaus, each directly 

 responsible to the executive officer. 



Inasmuch as the present executive officer had been acting as attorney 

 for the Commercial Fisheries Department, it was deemed best in the 

 interests of economy and efficiency to combine the three offices (execu- 

 tive officer, attorney, and attorney for the Commercial Fisheries Depart- 

 ment) in one individual, and that the executive officer should be given 

 an assistant attorney to aid him in his duties. In view of the fact that 

 the new executive officer was to act as general attorney for the Commis- 

 sion and handle the legal work for the Commercial Fisheries Depart- 

 ment, it was deemed necessary to remove the executive offices from 

 Sacramento in order that the executive officer might be in close touch 

 with the Commercial Fisheries headquarters in San Francisco. Also, 

 it was decided that the executive offices must be closer to Mr. Zeller- 

 bach, the new president of the board, who was taking such an active 

 part in the work. With a new assistant executive officer, Mr. Dunbar, 

 at Sacramento, sufficient contact could be maintained with the Board 

 of Control and the Civil Service Commission. The organization was 

 built up, then, in three main departments : 



Patrol Department, 



Fish Culture Department, 



Commercial Fisheries Department, 



and the following bureaus: 



Finance and Accounts, 



Education and Research, 



Publicity, 



Pollution, 



Screens and Ladders, 



Game Farm, 



Statistics and Game Problems. 



Monthly all the department and bureau heads assemble for a cabinet 

 council meeting at headquarters in San Francisco. At these meetings 

 general matters of policy are discussed and cooperation between the 

 departments planned and consummated. Certain fixed cabinet policies 

 are adopted for our mutual guidance and matters are frequently 



