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of the Department of Education. Each of said institutions
shall continue under the management of their respective
Boards of Visitors, Managers, or Trustees, constituted as now
by law provided, and having and continuing to exercise the
same rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions, except
that the same shall be exercised by said Boards, respectively,
under the general supervision of the State Superintendent of
Schools.

V.

The State Board of Agriculture and the Regents of the
University of Maryland.

SECTION 1. The heads of this department shall be the State
Board of Agriculture and the Regents of the University of
Maryland, constituted and organized as at present; and all
the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions conferred
by any and every provision of law upon said Board or upon
the said Regents, or upon both or either, shall continue un-
affected by this Act; it being the intention that this Act shall
in no way affect any of the provisions of law relating to the
said Board or the said Regents, or both, except as herein
provided.

SEC. 2. On the taking effect of this Act, all the rights,
powers, duties, obligations and functions of the State Board
of Forestry, as the same are set forth in Article 39A of the
Annotated Code, Volumes I, III and IV, title "Forestry, " or
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
Board of Forestry, to the same extent and effect as if the said
Regents of the University of Maryland had been named in
the provisions of said Article or other provisions of 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 Board of Forestry shall cease
and be at an end and the said Board shall be and stand
abolished.

SEC. 3. On the taking effect of this Act, Section 1 of Arti-
cle 39A of the Annotated Code, Volume I, and Section 2 of
said Article 39A of said Code, Volume III, title "Forestry, "
are respectively repealed and re-enacted with amendments so
as to read, respectively, as follows: