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is properly classified, whether or not his duties conform
with his classification, and such other information as may
be helpful in preparing said pay plan, and to that end the
Board may require any State employee to appear before it
and give evidence.

The said State Employees Standard Salary Board is
hereby authorized whenever in its judgment the same is
warranted on account of the cost of living and the general
employment conditions in the particular area, to approve
increases in salaries of employees of County Welfare
Boards created by the State Department of Public Wel-
fare, up to but not exceeding twenty per centum (20%)
over the salary fixed for such positions by said Board sub-
ject to the approval of the County Commissioners of the
particular county where salaries are proposed to be in-
creased, such increases to be prorated on the same basis as
the basic salaries of such employees.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 185,
186, 189 and 193 of Article 41 of said Code, title "Governor-
Executive and Administrative Departments, " sub-title
"Department of Employment and Registration, " be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

185. The Department of State Employment and Regis-
tration is hereby established. The head of this Department
shall be the [State Employment Commissioner] State Com-
missioner of Personnel, who, appointed as at present, shall
have and exercise all the rights, powers, duties, obligations
and functions now or hereafter conferred upon him by
law. The said [State Employment Commissioner shall be
known hereafter as the Commissioner of State Employ-
ment and Registration, and] State Commissioner of Per-
sonnel shall devote all of his time to the duties of his office,
including the duties heretofore performed by the Secretary
and Chief Examiners as designated in the budget.

186. The following boards and agencies shall be assigned
to the [Department of Employment and Registration]
State Commissioner of Personnel:

[State Employment Commissioner] State Commissioner

of Personnel

State Board of Barber Examiners
State Board of Chiropody Examiners
State Board of Chiropractic Examiners
State Board of Dental Examiners