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accrued before such Act takes effect or at the time there-
of, and which would be subject to enforcement by an officer,
board, commission, department or other agency abolished or
superseded hereby, shall be enforced by the department to
which the rights, powers, duties, obligations, and functions of
such agency so abolished or superseded are transferred, or by
the successor to the agency so abolished or superseded.

7. All orders, rules and regulations made by any officer,
board, commission, department or other governmental agency
which is abolished or superseded by any Act of the Legis-
lature shall be and remain in full force and effect, until
revoked or modified in accordance with law by the department
which succeeds to the rights, powers, duties, obligations and
functions of such agency so abolished or superseded, or by the
successor to the agency so abolished or superseded.

8. All existing contracts and obligations of the officers,
boards, commissions, departments or other governmental agen-
cies abolished or superseded by any Act of the Legislature
shall be and remain in full force and effect, and shall be per-
formed by the departments to which the rights, powers, duties,
obligations or functions of such agency so abolished or super-
seded are transferred, or by the successor to the agency so
abolished or superseded.

9. The heads of the departments and all officers, boards
and commissions, and employees of such, who or which under
any Act of the Legislature are transferred to departments,
or become divisions of departments, and who or which are
not in the classified service under the Merit System Law,
shall continue exempt from the Merit System Law, and the
rules and regulations made thereunder, unless and until placed
in the classified service in accordance with the provisions of
the Merit System Law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on June 1, 1939.

Approved May 31, 1939.

CHAPTER 71.
(Senate Bill 31)

AN ACT to repeal and reenact, with amendments, Section
35A of Article 26 of the Code of Public General Laws
(Flack's 1935 Supp. ) title "Courts" sub-title "Court