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referred to the Board with our recommendations. The executive officer 

 is thus guided by the opinion of those entrusted with the detail workings 

 of the various activities of the Commission. 



To supplement the cabinet meetings a system of interoffice corre- 

 spondence has been worked out. All matters of a technical nature 

 coming in the mail or otherwise to the executive officer are immediately 

 referred to the head of the department or bureau particularly inter- 

 ested. Instructions are given with the transmittal that the letter shall 

 either be answered directly by the chief of the department, or that a 

 report be made and forwarded to the executive officer so that he may 

 personally reply. It frequently happens that transmitted matter passes 

 from the executive officer to the Patrol Department, thence to the 

 captain of patrol, from him to the deputy patroling the particular 

 district where the investigation is to be made, and then the report from 

 that deputy comes back through the usual channels to the executive 

 officer. Fixed responsibility is therefore placed and an intelligent 

 answer can be made to the original correspondent. 



It was intended to make the Fish and Game Commission function as a 

 big business concern, and we have endeavored in every possible way to 

 avail ourselves of advanced business methods. Modern office furniture 

 and fixtures have been installed. A power multigraph machine elimi- 

 nates much printing. Roll top desks have been abolished. Supplies 

 are purchased in large quantities instead of piecemeal as heretofore by 

 branch offices and departments. A new card system inventory is being 

 prepared and will be kept up to date. A personnel file is being installed 

 as a basis for increases in salary and promotion. 



The general duties and scope of activities of the three major depart- 

 ments of the Commission are as follows : 



PATROL DEPARTMENT. 



The first step in the reorganization of the Patrol Department was to 

 abolish the local district offices. All of the patrol, land and water, with 

 the exception of one boat working under the Commercial Fisheries 

 Department at San Pedro, was centered under a chief of patrol. J. S. 

 Hunter, who had for many years been in charge of the district office of 

 the Commission at San Francisco, was selected as the new chief. His 

 report appended shows in more detail the organization cf his depart- 

 ment. It is pleasing to relate that real efficiency in patrol is now being 

 obtained. 



Mobility of men is possible, and deputies can be massed in portions 

 of the state when and where needed. Extra men can be put on for 

 the opening of the deer and duck season. When emergency arises details 

 can be shifted from one portion of the state to another. The captain 

 system as instituted in the patrol has been a big success. One feature 

 of the new system which deserves particular comment is the cooperation 

 which this department lends to all other departments or bureaus of the 

 Commission. This year the captains and individual deputies have 

 assisted, when called upon, in the planting of fish ; in like manner they 

 have made reports on pollution, and on screen and ladder matters. 



