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four, as shall be provided for in the Budget, each of whom shall
receive the compensation provided in the Budget. The Parole
Commissioner shall also, in his discretion, appoint and remove
at pleasure other persons to serve as parole officers without pay.
The Commissioner shall have power to appoint and remove at
pleasure a Secretary, at such compensation as may be fixed in
the Budget. The Parole Commissioner, and the parole officers
appointed by him, are authorized and empowered to arrest,
without warrant, all persons who violate the terms of their
parole or conditional pardon, wherever found within the State.

(c) All the rights, powers, duties, obligations and func-
tions of the Advisory Board of Parole under existing law
shall, on the taking effect of this Act, be transferred to and
thereafter be exercised and performed by the said Parole
Commissioner, who shall be the lawful successor of the said
Board, to the same extent and effect as if the said Parole
Commissioner had been named in said existing laws as the
official upon whom the said rights, powers, duties, obligations
and functions were conferred.

SEC. 4. The Commissioner of the Land Office shall be
assigned to the Executive Department. He shall have and
exercise the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions
now or hereafter conferred by law.

SEC. 5. The Superintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds, appointed as at present, shall be assigned to the Ex-
ecutive Department. He shall have and exercise the rights,
powers, duties, obligations and functions now or hereafter con-
ferred by law.

SEC. 6. The Department of Legislative Reference shall be as-
signed to the Executive Department. It shall, through its
executive officer, appointed as at present, have and exercise
the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions now or
hereafter conferred by law; and, in addition, shall report in
writing annually to the Governor, on or before the first day of
January, upon the performance during the preceding year of
the duties imposed by the Acts of 1916 Chapter 474, (Anno-
tated Code, Volume 4, Article 40, Sections 15 and 16).

SEC. T. The Commissioners for Uniform State Laws, ap-
pointed as at present, shall be assigned to the Executive Depart-
ment. They shall have and exercise the rights, powers, duties,
obligations and functions now or hereafter conferred by law;