706                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 188

13.

(a) The Executive Director shall create and administer a division
to be known as the Division of Employment Service which shall
establish and maintain free public employment offices in such number
and in such places as may be necessary for the proper administration
of this article and for the purpose of performing such duties as are
within the purview of the act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide
for the establishment of a national- employment system and for co-
operation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for
other purposes," approved June 6,1933 (48 Stat. 113; U.S.C.A., Title
29, §49(c), as amended). The said Division shall be administered
by a full-time salaried director, who shall be charged with the duty
to cooperate with any official or agency of the United States having
powers or duties under the provisions of the said act of Congress,
as amended, and to do and perform all things necessary to secure to
this State the benefits of the said act of Congress, as amended, in
the promotion and maintenance of a system of public employment
offices. The provisions of the said act of Congress, as amended, are
hereby accepted by this State, in conformity with § 4 of said act, and
this State will observe and comply with the requirements thereof.
The Division of Employment Service is hereby designated and con-
stituted the agency of this State for the purpose of said act. The
Executive Director is directed to appoint the director and employees
of the Division of Employment Service, in accordance with regula-
tions prescribed by the director of the United States employment
service, and in accordance with the provisions of Article 64A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland; provided, however, that all of the
employees of the Division of Employment Service on January 1, 1939,
shall remain employees of the Division of Employment Service sub-
ject to reclassification under said Article 64A of the Annotated Code
of Maryland.

The Executive Director may cooperate with or enter into agree-
ments with the railroad retirement board with respect to the estab-
lishment, maintenance, and use of free employment service facilities.

The legislature hereby declares its intent that operation of the
Division of Employment Service shall be resumed whenever the needs
of national defense, as determined by the President of the United
States, will permit.

Within a period of one year from such time, notwithstanding any
other provisions of the laws of the State of Maryland, the Governor
of this State is hereby authorized to take such action as he finds
necessary to transfer to the Division of Employment Service the
personnel, records, and facilities of the United States employment
service in this State as a going concern, and to secure to this State
all advantages available under the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended,
the Social Security Act, as amended, and the federal Unemployment
Tax Act, as amended.

[Any person who was in the employ of the Division of Employment
Service at the time that the said service and its personnel were taken
over by the United States employment service and who has remained
in the employ of the United States employment service and has not
withdrawn his accumulated contributions to the Employees' Retire-
ment System of the State of Maryland shall be restored to active
membership in the said system when the operation of the Division