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(D) Game Administration in Illinois 
Because of the recent change of administration the time was un- 
favorable for gaining a complete picture of the workings or organization 
of the conservation department. The following data, therefore, may be sub- 
ject to amendment. 
24. Organization. The department is organized under the Civil Adminis- 
tration Code of 1917, as amended in 1925 to crate a separate department. 
It was previously under agriculture. The organization is very simple, as 
follows: 



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pression that the entire personnel, and certainly the policy, is subject 
to overturn with each change in the governorship. No conservation program 
can be started, much less given a fair trial, during such short periods. 
Regulatory powers are conveyed in broad and vague terms by the act, 
and such specific powers as land-buying are exercised by the department. 
The unsatisfactory workings of these powers are illustrated in the forestry 
division, which is headed by an experienced technical man, who has worked 
up all the detail necessary for embarking on a program of acquisition of 
state forests, 

