GOVERNOR—EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS 1757

Annotated Code, title "Surveyor and State Survey," sub-title "State
Geological and Economic Survey," and in any other provisions of law,
shall be transferred to and thereafter be exercised and performed by the
Regents of the University of Maryland, as the lawful successors to said
State Geological and Economic Survey Commission, to the same extent
and effect as if the said Regents of the University of Maryland had been
named in said provisions of the law as the body upon whom the said rights,
powers, duties, obligations and functions were conferred. Thereupon the
terms of office of the members of the said State Geological and Economic
Survey Commission shall cease and be at an end and the said Commission
shall be and stand abolished.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 104. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 59).

147. On January 1, 1923, all the rights, powers, duties, obligations
and functions of the Board of Government provided for the state Weather
Service by Sections 1 to 3, inc., of Article 96A of the Annotated Code,
title "Weather Service—State," said Board being composed of the Presi-
dent of the Johns Hopkins University, the President of the University of
Maryland and the Chief of the United States Weather Bureau, shall be
transferred to and thereafter be exercised and performed by the Regents
of the University of Maryland, through the State Geologist, as the lawful
successors to said Board of Government, to the same extent and effect as
if the said Regents of the University of Maryland had been named in said
sections of the law as the body upon whom the said rights, powers, duties,
obligations and functions were conferred. Thereupon the said Board of
Government shall cease and be at an end.

6.
The Department, of Militia.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 105. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 59).

148. The head of the Department of Militia shall be the Adjutant
General of the State, having and exercising the rights, powers, duties,
obligations and functions now or hereafter conferred by law.
As to the militia, see art. 65.

7.
Department of Correction.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 106. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 59). 1939, ch. 69.

149. The Department of Correction is hereby established.
See Art. 27, sec. 743.

8.
State Department of Public Welfare.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 107. 1922, ch. 29 (p. 63). 1939, chs. 99 and 240.

150. The head of the Department of Public Welfare shall be the Board
of Public Welfare, constituted and organized as at present, and having
and exercising the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions now
or hereafter conferred by law.
See Art. 88A.