GOVERNOR—EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS. 1493

functions of the agency so abolished or- superseded, or before or by the
successor of the agency so abolished or superseded, to the same extent that
such agency itself could have done had the same not been abolished or
superseded, and all penalties, fines or forfeitures incurred or accrued before
this Act takes effect1 or at the time thereof, and which would be subject to
enforcement by an officer, board, commission, department or other agency
abolished or superseded hereby, shall be enforced by the department to
which the rights, powers, duties, obligations, and functions of such agency
so abolished or superseded are transferred, or by the successor to the agency
so abolished or superseded.

1922, ch. 29, sec. 6 (p. 42).

7. All orders, rules and regulations made by any officer, board, com-
mission, department or other governmental agency which is abolished or
superseded by this Act, shall be and remain in full force and effect, until
revoked or modified in accordance with law by the department which suc-
ceeds to the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions of such agency
so abolished or superseded, or by the successor to the agency so abolished
or superseded.

1922, ch. 29, sec. 7 (p. 42).

8. All existing contracts and obligations of the officers, boards, com-
missions, departments or other governmental agencies abolished or super-
seded by this Act, shall be and remain in full force and effect, and shall be
performed by the departments to which the rights, powers, duties, obliga-
tions or functions of such agency so abolished or superseded are transferred,
or by the successor to the agency so abolished or superseded.

1922, ch. 29, sec. 8 (p. 42).

9. The heads of the departments and all officers, boards and commis-
sions, and employees of such, who or which under this Act are transferred to
departments, or become divisions of departments, and who or which are not
in the classified service under the Merit System Law, shall continue exempt
from the Merit System Law, and the rules and regulations made thereunder,
unless and until placed in the classified service in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Merit System Law.

As to the merit system, see art. 64A.

1922, ch. 29, sec. 9 (p. 42).

10. The heads of the departments shall devise a practical and working
basis for co-operation and co-ordination of work, eliminating duplication
and overlapping of functions. They shall, so far as practicable, co-operate
with each other in the employment of services and the use of quarters and
equipment. The heads of departments shall devise plans for organizing
from the clerical and stenographic help of the divisions under them a central
or departmental force of clerks and stenographers whose services may be

1 Ch. 29 of 1922 became effective Jan. 1, 1923.