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or hereafter conferred by law, shall constitute a separate De-
partment of the State Government.

XV.

Commissioner of Labor and Statistics.

SECTION 1. The terms of office of the members of the State
Board of Labor and Statistics shall continue or be extended,
as the case may be, until the taking effect of this Act, where-
upon the same shall cease and be at an end and the said Board
shall be and stand abolished.

SEC. 2. On the taking effect of this Act, Section 1 of Article
89 of the Annotated Code, Volume IV, title "Statistics and
Information as to Branches of Industry, " is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

1. The office of Commissioner of Labor and Statistics is
hereby created. The term of office of said Commissioner shall

be two years, and until his successor shall be appointed and
shall have qualified, said term beginning on the first Monday of
May succeeding his appointment, except that the Commissioner
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 his successor shall qualify. Any vacancy shall
be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term. The Gov-
ernor may at any time remove the Commissioner from office for _

inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. The salary
of the Commissioner shall be $3, 000 per annum. The said
Commissioner shall be allowed for actual and necessary ex-

penses incurred in the discharge of his duties.

The Commissioner of Labor and Statistics is authorized and
empowered to appoint or employ such deputies, inspectors, as-
sistants and employees of every kind as may be necessary for

the performance of the duties now or hereafter imposed upon
him by this or any other law; provided, however, that such ap-
pointments and employments, and the compensation to be
allowed therefor, shall in each and every case be subject to the
approval of the Governor.

SEC. 3. On the taking effect of this Act, all the rights,
powers, duties, obligations and functions of the State Board
of Labor and Statistics, under any provisions of law, including
all the powers and duties transferred to and imposed and de-
volved upon said Board by the Acts of 1916, Chapter 406.