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the progress and condition of State Forest work and recommend
therein plans for improving the State system of forest protec-
tion, management and replacement.

SEC. 4. On the taking effect of this Act, all the rights,
powers, duties, obligations and functions of the State Geologi-
cal and Economic Survey Commission, as the same are set
forth in sections 19 to 24 inc. of Article 91 of the Annotated
Code, title "Surveyor and State Survey, " sub-title "State
Geological and Economic Survey, " and in any other provi-
sions 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 con-
ferred. 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.

SEC. 5. On the taking effect of this Act, section 19 of Arti-
cle 91 of the Annotated Code, title "Surveyor and State Sur-
vey, " sub-title "State Geological and Economic Survey, " shall
be repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as
follows:

19. There is established a state geological and economic
survey, which shall be under the direction of the Regents of the
University of Maryland, who shall have general charge of the
survey and shall appoint as superintendent of the same a
geologist of established reputation, and, upon his nomination,
such assistants and employees as they may deem necessary; and
they shall also determine the compensation of all persons em-
ployed by the survey, subject to the provisions of the Budget,
and may remove them at pleasure. There is also established
a State Geological and Economic Survey Advisory Commission,
composed of the President of the Johns Hopkins University
and two other members, appointed by the Governor biennially,
except that the two members first appointed under this Act
shall be appointed on the taking effect of this Act, and hold
office until the first Monday of May, 1924, and until their suc-
cessors shall qualify. It shall be the duty of said Commission