1492 ARTICLE 41.

the said departments, are placed in the said departments as hereinafter
provided; and every State office, hoard, commission or other governmental
agency created during this or any subsequent session of the General Assem-
bly shall be placed in one of said departments. Each of the said departments
shall be constituted and shall have and exercise the rights, powers, duties,
obligations and functions hereinafter provided. Any officers, boards or com-
missions not referred to in this Article shall not be affected hereby.

1922, ch. 29, sec. 3 (p. 40).

4. Where an existing office, board, commission, department or other
governmental agency is abolished or superseded by this Act, all books,
papers, maps, charts, plans, records, documents and all supplies, equipment
and other property in the possession of the same, or of any member or officer
thereof, shall be delivered to or shall vest in the department to which the
rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions, of the agency so abolished
or superseded are transferred, or to or in the successor to the agency so abol-
ished or superseded; and where some only of the rights, powers, duties, obli-
gations or functions of an existing office, board, commission, department or
other governmental agency are transferred to another department, then the
books, papers, maps, charts, plans, records, documents and all supplies,
equipment and other property relating to the rights, powers, duties, obliga-
tions or functions so transferred shall be delivered to or shall vest in the
department to which such transfer is made.

1922, ch. 29, sec, 4 (p. 41).

5. All persons in the classified service under the Merit System Law,
namely, the Act of 1920, Chapter 41,1 and any amendments thereto, who
are employed by any officer, board, commission, department or other gov-
ernmental agency abolished or superseded by this Act, or any member of
any such board or other agency, whom it is desired to appoint and transfer
to classified service positions in the department to which the powers and
duties of such agency are transferred or under the successor of the agency
so abolished or superseded, shall be eligible to such appointment and trans-
fer without the necessity of complying with the provisions of the said
Merit System Law, or the rules and regulations made thereunder, relative
thereto; but after such appointment and transfer, then such positions shall
continue in all respects classified service positions.

1922, ch. 29, sec. 5 (p. 41).

6. All petitions, hearings and other proceedings pending before any
officer, board, commission, department or other governmental agency which
is abolished or superseded by this Act, and all prosecutions, legal or other
proceedings and investigations begun by or before any such agency so
abolished or superseded, and not completed at the time of the taking effect
of this Act, shall continue and remain in full force and effect notwith-
standing the passage of this Act, and may be completed before or by the
department which succeeds to the rights, powers, duties, obligations and

1 See art. 64A.