The Secretary of the Public Utilities Commission shall receive four thousand dollars.

IN THE DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION:

The Director of Registration and Education shall receive five thousand dollars;

The Assistant Director of Registration and Education shall receive three thousand six hundred dollars;

The Superintendent of Registration shall receive four thousand two hundred dollars.

§ 10. No member of an advisory and non-executive board shall receive any compensation.

§ 11. Each executive and administrative officer, except the two food standard officers, the members of the Mining board, and the members of the Normal School board shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office and shall hold no other office or position of profit.

§ 12. Each officer whose office is created by this Act shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. In any case of vacancy in such offices during the recess of the Senate, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the next meeting of the Senate, when he shall nominate some person to fill such office; and any person so nominated, who is confirmed by the Senate, shall hold his office during the remainder of the term and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. If the Senate is not in session at the time this Act takes effect, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment as in case of a vacancy.

§ 13. Each officer whose office is created by this Act, except as otherwise specifically provided for in this Act, shall hold office for a term of four years from the second Monday in January next after the election. of a Governor, and until his successor is appointed and qualified.

Three members of the Normal School board first appointed shall hold office until the second Monday in January, A. D. 1919, three until the second Monday in January, A. D. 1921, and three until the second Monday in January, A. D. 1923. After the expiration of the terms of office of those first appointed, their respective successors shall hold office for a term of six years.

§ 14. Each officer whose office is created by this Act shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, which shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

§ 15. Each executive and administrative officer whose office is created by this Act shall, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his office, give bond, with security to be approved by the Governor, in such penal sum as shall be fixed by the Governor, not less in any case than ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties, which bond shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

§ 16. The director of each department is empowered to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its employees and clerks, the distribution and per

formance of its business and the custody, use and preservation of the records, papers, books, documents, and property pertaining thereto.

§ 17. Each department shall maintain a central office in the capitol building at Springfield, in rooms provided by the Secretary of State. The director of each department may, in his discretion and with the approval of the Governor, establish and maintain, at places other than the seat of government, branch offices for the conduct of any one or more functions of his department.

§ 18. Each department shall be open for the transaction of public business at least from eighty-thirty o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the evening of each day except Sundays and days declared by the negotiable instrument Act to be holidays.

$ 19. Each department shall adopt and keep an official seal.

§ 20. Each department is empowered to employ, subject to civil service laws in force at the time the employment is made, necessary employees, and, if the rate of compensation is not otherwise fixed by law, to fix their compensation.

$ 21. All employees in the several departments shall render not less than seven and one-half hours of labor each day, Saturday afternoons, Sundays and days declared by the negotiable instrument Act to be holidays excepted in cases in which, in the judgment of the director, the public service will not thereby be impaired.

§ 22. Each employee in the several departments shall be entitled during each calendar year to fourteen days' leave of absence with full pay. In special and meritorious cases where to limit the annual leave to fourteen days in any one calendar year would work peculiar hardship, it may, in the discretion of the director of the department, be extended.

§ 23. No employee in the several departments, employed at a fixed Compensation, shall be paid for any extra services, unless expressly authorized by law.

§ 24. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to amend, modify, or repeal the State civil service law, or to extend the application thereof to any position created by this act where the duties to be performed under such position do not now exist or are now performed by an officer or employee not in the clasified civil service of the State. Every officer and employee in the classified civil service at the time this Act takes effect shall be assigned to a position in the proper department created. by this Act, having, so far as possible, duties equivalent to his former office or employment, and such officers and employees shall be employees of the State in the classified civil service of the State, of the same standing, grade and privileges which they respectively had in the office, board, commission or institution from which they were transferred, subject, however, to existing and future civil service laws. This section shall not be construed to require the retention of more employees than are necessary to the proper performance of the functions of the departments.

§ 25. Each director of a department shall annually on or before the first day of December, and at such other times as the Governor may require, report in writing to the Governor concerning the condition, management and financial transactions of their respective departments. In addition to such reports, each director of a department shall make

the semi-annual and biennial reports provided by the Constitution. The departments shall make annual and biennial reports at the time prescribed in this section, and at no other time.

§ 26. The directors of departments shall devise a practical and working basis for co-operation and co-ordination of work, eliminating duplication and overlapping of functions. They shall, so far as practicable, co-operate with each other in the employment of services and the use of quarters and equipment. The director of any department may empower or require an employee of another department, subject to the consent of the superior officer of the employee, to perform any duty which he might require of his own subordinates.

27. The gross amount of money received by every department, from whatever source, belonging to or for the use of the State, shall be paid into the State treasury, without delay, not later in any event than ten days after the receipt of the same, without any deduction on account of salaries, fees, costs, charges, expenses or claim of any description whatever. No money belonging to, or for the use of, the State shall be expended or applied by any department except in consequence of an appropriation made by law and upon the warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts.

§ 28. In the construction of buildings for the various departments, or in doing other construction work in or about buildings and grounds, exceeding the estimated value of one thousand dollars, contracts therefor shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder. Supplies for the several departments, except in cases of emergency and in the case of perishable goods, shall be purchased in large quantities and contracts therefor shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder. Advertisements for bids for doing such construction work, or furnishing such supplies, shall be published for at least three days, the first and last of which publications shall be at least ten days apart, in one or more newspapers of general circulation published in each of the seven largest cities of the State determined by the then last preceding Federal census, and, also, in one secular English newspaper selected by the Department of Public Works and Buildings by competitive bidding in the same manner as it is herein provided other contracts may be let and designated as an "official newspaper," which newspaper so selected shall continue to be the official newspaper for a period of one year from the time of its selection. The proposals shall be publicly opened on the day and hour and at the place mentioned in the advertisement and any and all bids may be rejected and when rejected a re-advertisement shall be made in the manner above provided.

§ 29. All supplies of fuel purchased for the departments shall be let by contract to the lowest responsible bidder. Advertisements for bids shall be published for at least ten days in one or more of the daily newspapers of general circulation published in each of the seven largest cities of the State, determined by the then last preceding Federal census. The officer authorized by law to make contracts for fuel shall prescribe rules and regulations to be observed in the preparation, submission and opening of bids. All contracts for fuel shall be made subject to the approval of the Governor.

§ 30. The price paid for fuel shall not exceed the following: For anthracite coal, twelve dollars per ton;

For Pennsylvania bituminous, Pocahontas and West Virginia smokeless, eastern Kentucky and Ohio coals, all of the bituminous type, nine dollars per ton;

For Illinois, Indiana, western Kentucky, Missouri and Iowa coals, all of the bituminous type, seven dollars per ton;

For any other coal of the bituminous type, seven dollars per ton. § 31. Whenever in this Act power is vested in a department to inspect, examine, secure data or information, or to procure assistance from another department, a duty is hereby imposed upon the department upon which demand is made, to make such power effective.

§ 32. Whenever rights, powers and duties, which have heretofore been vested in or exercised by any officer, board, commission, institution or department, or any deputy, inspector or subordinate officer thereof, are, by this Act, transferred, either in whole or in part, to or vested in a department created by this Act, such rights, powers and duties shall be vested in, and shall be exercised by, the department to which the same are hereby transferred, and not otherwise, and every act done in the exercise of such rights, powers and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done by the former officer, board, commission, institution or department, or any deputy, inspector or subordinate officer thereof. Every person and corporation shall be subject to the same obligations and duties. and shall have the same rights arising from the exercise of such rights, powers and duties as if such rights, powers and duties were exercised by the officer, board, commission, department or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof, designated in the respective laws which are to be administered by departments created by this Act. Every person and corporation shall be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, for failure to perform any such obligation or duty, or for doing a prohibited act, as if such obligation or duty arose from, or such act were prohibited in, the exercise of such right, power or duty by the officer, board, commission, or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof, designated in the respective laws which are to be administered by departments created by this Act. Every officer and employee shall, for any offense, be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by existing law for the same offense by any officer or employee whose powers or duties devolved upon him under this Act. All books, records, papers, documents, property, real and personal, unexpended appropriations, and pending business in any way pertaining to the rights, powers and duties so transferred to or vested in a department created by this Act, shall be delivered and. transferred to the department succeeding to such rights, powers and duties.

§ 33. Wherever reports or notices are now required to be made or given, or papers or documents furnished or served by any person to or upon any officer, board, commission, or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof, abolished by this Act, the same shall be made, given, furnished, or served in the same manner to or upon the depart

ment upon which are devolved by this Act the rights, powers and duties now exercised or discharged by such officer, board, commission, or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof; and every penalty for failure so to do shall continue in effect.

§ 34. This Act shall not affect any act done, ratified or confirmed, or any right accrued or established, or any action or proceeding had or commenced in a civil or criminal cause before this Act takes effect; but such actions or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued by the department having jurisdiction, under this Act, of the subject matter to which such litigation or proceeding pertains.

35. The following offices, boards, commissions, arms, and agencies of the State government heretofore created by law, are hereby abolished, viz: superintendent of printing, board of live stock commissioners, secretary of the board of live stock commissioners, State veterinarian, board of veterinary examiners, stallion registration board, secretary of the stallion registration board, board of examiners of horseshoers, secretary of the board of examiners of horseshoers, State inspector of apiaries, State game and fish commission, game and fish wardens, deputy game and fish wardens, advisory board of managers of free employment offices, local boards of managers of free employment offices, general superintendent of free employment offices in each city having a population of one million or over, department superintendent of free employment offices in each city having a population of one million or over, assistant department superintendents of free employment offices in each city having a population of one million or over, clerks of free employment offices in free employment offices in each city having a population of one million or over, superintendent of free employment offices in cities of less than one million population, assistant superintendents of free employment offices in cities of less than one million population, clerks of free employment offices in cities of less than one million population, chief inspector of private employment agencies, assistant inspectors of private employment agencies, chief State factory inspector, assistant chief factory inspector, physician for chief State factory inspector, deputy factory inspectors, State board of arbitration and conciliation, secretary of the State board of arbitration and conciliation, the industrial board, secretary of the industrial board, State mining board, chief clerk of the State mining board, State mine inspectors, miners' examining commissioners, constituting the miners' examining board, mine fire fighting and rescue. station commission, superintendents of mine fire fighting and rescue stations, assistant superintendents of mine fire fighting and rescue stations, State highway department, the State highway commission, chief State highway engineer, assistant State highway engineer, the canal commissioners, rivers and lakes commission, Illinois waterway commission, Illinois park commission, Fort Massac trustess [trustees], Lincoln homestead trustees, board of commissioners of and for the Lincoln monument grounds, State board of examiners of architects, State board of examiners of structural engineers, secretary of the State board of examiners of structural engineers, secretary-treasurer of the State board of examiners of architects, State inspector of masonry, public buildings and works, assistant State inspectors of masonry, public buildings and works, the