120 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 70

the department to which the rights, powers, duties, obligations
and functions of the agency so abolished or superseded are
transferred, or to or in the successor to the agency so abol-
ished or superseded; and where some only of the rights, powers,
duties, obligations or functions of an existing office, board,
commission, department or other governmental agency are
transferred to another department, then the books, papers,
maps, charts, plans, records, documents and all supplies,
equipment and other property relating to the rights, powers,
duties, obligations or functions so transferred shall be deliv-
ered to or shall vest in the department to which such transfer
is made; and where none of the rights, powers, duties, obli-
gations or functions of an existing office, board, commission,
department or other governmental agency is transferred to
another department, then the books_? papers, maps, charts,
plans, records, documents and all supplies, equipment and
other property of the existing office, board, commission, depart-
ment or other governmental agency so abolished, shall be de-
livered to the Board of Public Works.

5. All persons in the classified service under the provisions
of Article 64A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, known as
the Merit System Law, who are employed by any officer, board,
commission, department or other governmental agency,
abolished or superseded by any Act of the Legislature (unless
otherwise provided in such Act), shall retain their merit
system status, and shall be eligible for re-employment in their
respective classified service positions in the department in
which the powers and duties of such agency become vested,
or elsewhere in the State Merit System service, in accordance
with the Merit System Law, and the rules and regulations
made pursuant thereto.

6. All petitions, hearings and other proceedings pending
before any officer, board, commission, department or other
governmental agency which is abolished or superseded by
any Act of the Legislature, and all prosecutions, legal or
other proceedings and investigations begun by or before
any such agency so abolished or superseded, and not com-
pleted at the time of the taking effect of such Act, shall
continue and remain in full force and effect notwithstand-
ing the passage of such Act, and may be completed before
or by the department which succeeds to the rights, powers,
duties, obligations and functions of the agency so abolished or
superseded, or before or by the successor of the agency so
abolished or superseded, to the same extent that such agency
itself could have done had the same not been abolished or
superseded, and all penalties, fines or forfeitures incurred or