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who take care of the distribution in their respective counties and 

 account for the sale of the same to the State Controller, making remit- 

 tances direct to the State Treasurer and at the end of the license year, 

 the unissued licenses are returned to this office where they are credited 

 and the various accounts closed. 



The other method is for the three offices of the Division of Fish 

 and Game to sell direct to agents in various parts of the state as 

 follows : The agents remit the full value of the licenses needed, in ad- 

 vance and the licenses are then sent out to them for resale to the 

 sportsmen. The money is deposited in the bank in a special account 

 known as the bond trust account. After the book of licenses has been 

 sold by the agent, the stubs together with the applications are returned 

 to the office from which they were purchased and at the end of each 

 month the branch offices transfer from the bond trust account, the full 

 value of such books returned and the money is placed to the credit of 

 the state account. All moneys in the state account at the end of each 

 month are remitted to the office of the cashier at Sacramento, the cashier 

 making out a consolidated report and immediately remitting the money 

 to the State Treasurer to the credit of the fish and game preservation 

 fund. 



The reason for the direct sale to agents by the Division of Fish and 

 Game is that in certain counties the county clerks either do not handle 

 the licenses for distribution or they are perhaps handicapped by local 

 ordinances preventing them from retaining the amount of commissions 

 received for the sale of the licenses and in some cases, as has happened 

 in the past six months, county clerks due to certain conditions have 

 declined to handle the licenses, making it imperative for the Division 

 of Fish and Game to resort to a direct distribution. 



In the past years this office has been greatly in favor of the county 

 clerk distribution but owing to difficulties encountered in the past six 

 months due to various county clerks desiring not to handle licenses 

 any longer, and also a number of the county clerks being very negli- 

 gent in the matter of making remittances and reports on old license 

 accounts, the writer has come to the conclusion that unquestionably 

 a direct distribution of licenses will be entirely satisfactory, in so far 

 as the Division of Fish and Game is concerned. It will be possible, 

 he feels sure, to have licenses on sale at all places necessary, and at the 

 same time a more direct control of the funds will be had, as the moneys 

 will be held in the bond trust account and turned over to the State 

 Treasurer in due course of time as each particular license expires, 

 whereas the experience now had with various county clerks is that 

 it has been impossible to obtain final settlement on several of the 1927 

 angling license accounts and the 1927-28 hunting license accounts. 

 Unfortunately, we had. trouble with the county clerk of Inyo County 

 but this, the writer is quite- sure, was beyond that county clerk 's con- 

 trol. About the middle of 1927 a number of banks in Inyo County 

 closed their doors and at that time considerable money was in the 

 possession of the county clerk as well as a number of his agents, which 

 was on deposit with these banks. 



At the last session of the legislature, an amendment was made to 

 the License Sales Act reducing the amount of commission paid on 

 the sale of all licenses, from 10 .per <3entto 5 per cent. At the time 



