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REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
REPORT ON RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS OF FISH AND GAME COMMIS¬ 
SION, TWO YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 1910* 
By Price, Waterhouse & Co., Chartered Accountants. 
San Francisco, September 15, 1910. 
California Fish and Game Commission, San Francisco, Cal. 
Dear Sirs: In accordance with yonr instructions, we have made an 
examination of the books and accounts of the California Fish and Game 
Commission for the two years ending June 30, 1910, and we attach 
hereto the following schedules : 
Statement of receipts and disbursements, year ending June 30, 1909, 
Exhibit “A.” 
Statement of receipts and disbursements, year ending June 30, 1910, 
Exhibit “B.” 
From the statements submitted it will be seen that the accounts have 
materially changed since July 1, 1908, inasmuch as the funds for the 
restoration and preservation of game and the restoration and preser¬ 
vation of fish have been discontinued altogether, and the game preser¬ 
vation fund and the fish commission fund have been merged into a 
fund called “Fish and Game Preservation Fund,” which was created 
and approved on March 15, 1909. 
For the year ending June 30, 1909, the fish and game preservation 
fund received credit for the sum of $136,064.84 from hunting and fish¬ 
ing licenses, fines and fish eggs sold to the German Government. In 
addition the following appropriations were made by the legislature: 
Support and maintenance of hatcheries_$20,000 00 
Restoration and preservation of game_ 10,000 00 
Restoration and preservation of fish_ 10,000 00 
$40,000 00 
For the year ending June 30, 1910, there was only one appropriation 
made of $20,000.00 for the support and maintenance of hatcheries, 
which fund also received credit for the receipts from fishing licenses 
sold, which amounted to $21,982.50. 
We have limited our examination, in so far as the records of the two 
years above referred to are concerned, to the checking of all disburse¬ 
ments by the Chief Deputy, and to see that all hunting and fishing 
licenses issued for the year ending June 30, 1910, have been properly 
accounted for. Regarding the disbursements by the Chief Deputy we 
have seen vouchers or other acknowledgments for all, with the excep¬ 
tion of two small disbursements amounting to $11.88. As no complete 
