42 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 29

itself could have done had the same not been abolished or super-
seded, and all penalties, fines or forfeitures incurred or accrued
before this Act takes effect or at the time thereof, and which
would be subject to enforcement by an officer, board, commis-
sion, department or other agency abolished or superseded here-
by, 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abolished or superseded are transferred, or by the successor to
the agency so abolished or superseded.

SEC. 6. All orders, rules and regulations made by any offi-
cer, board, commission, 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agency which is abolished or superseded by this Act, shall be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 succeeds 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agency so abolished or superseded, or by the successor to the
agency so abolished or superseded.

SEC. 7. All existing contracts and obligations of the officers,
boards, commissions, departments or other governmental agen-
cies abolished or superseded by this Act, shall be and remain
in full force and effect, and shall be performed by the depart-
ments to which the rights, powers, duties, obligations or func-
tions of such agency so abolished or superseded are transferred,
or by the successor to the agency so abolished or superseded.

SEC. 8. The heads of departments and all officers, boards
and commissions, 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 sen-
ice in accordance with the provisions of the Merit System Law.

SEC. 9. The heads of the departments shall devise a prac-
tical and working basis for cooperation 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 di-
visions under them a central or departmental force of clerks
and stenographers whose services may be availed of by any of