$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

board of administration, State deportation agent, assistant State deportation agent, State agent for visitation of children placed in family homes, commissioners of the Illinois State penitentiary, warden of the Illinois State penitentiary, deputy warden of the Illinois State penitentiary, chaplains of the Illinois State penitentiary, physician of the Illinois State penitentiary, steward of the Illinois State penitentiary, matron of the Illinois State penitentiary, the commissioners of the southern Illinois penitentiary, warden of the southern Illinois penitentiary, deputy warden of the southern Illinois penitentiary, chaplains of the southern Illinois penitentiary, physician of the southern Illinois. penitentiary, steward of the southern Illinois penitentiary, matron of the southern Illinois penitentiary, board of managers of Illinois State reformatory, general superintendent of the Illinois State reformatory, chaplain of the Illinois State reformatory, physician of the Illinois State reformatory, the board of prison industries of Illinois, the board of classification, board of pardons, clerk of the board of pardons, stenographer of the board of pardons, State board of health, secretary and executive officer of the State board of health, board of pharmacy, secretary of the board of pharmacy, Illinois State board of dental examiners, secretary of the Illinois State board of dental examiners, Illinois State board of nurse examiners, secretary of the Illinois State board of nurse examiners, State board of optometry, secretary of the State board of optometry, board of barber examiners, secretary and treasurer of the board of barber examiners, State food commissioner, assistant State food commissioner, State analyst, chief clerk of the State food commissioner, assistant clerk of the State food commissioner, stenographers of the State food commissioner, inspectors of the State food commissioner, bacteriologist of the State food commissioner, analytical chemists of the State food commissioner, laboratory janitor for the food commissioner, food standard commission, State public utilities commission, secretary of the State publie utilities commission, chief inspector of grain, deputy grain inspectors. deputy chief inspector of grain of the East St. Louis district, warehouse registrar, assistant warehouse registrars, State weighmasters, registrar of the grain inspection department, inspectors of automatic couplers, power brakes and grab irons or hand holds on railroad locomotives, tenders, cars and similar vehicles, insurance superintendent, State fire marshal, first deputy State fire marshal, second deputy State fire marshal, chief deputy fire marshal, deputy State fire marshals, assistant fire marshals, the board of education of the State of Illinois, board of trustees of the Southern Illinois Normal University, board of trustees of the Northern Illinois. State Normal School, board of trustees of the Eastern Illinois State Normal School, and the board of trustees of the Western Illinois State Normal School.

THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.

36. The Department of Finance shall have power:

1. To prescribe and require the installation of a uniform system of bookkeeping, accounting and reporting for the several departments;

2. To prescribe forms for accounts and financial reports and statements for the several departments;

3. To supervise and examine the accounts and expenditures of the several departments;

4. To examine, at any and all times, into the accuracy and legality of the accounts, receipts and expenditures of the public moneys and the disposition and use of the public property by the several departments;

5. To keep such summary and controlling accounts as may be necessary to determine the accuracy of the detail accounts and reports from the several departments, and to prescribe the manner and method of certifying that funds are available and adequate to meet all contracts and obligations;

6. To prescribe uniform rules governing specifications for purchases of supplies, the advertisement for proposals, the opening of bids and the making of awards, to keep a catalogue of prices current and to analyze and tabulate prices paid and quantities purchased;

7. To examine, at any and all times, the accounts of every private corporation, institution, association or board receiving appropriations from the General Assembly;

8. To report to the Attorney General for such action, civil or criminal, as the Attorney General may deem necessary, all facts showing illegal expenditures of the public money or misappropriation of the public property;

9. To examine and approve, or disapprove, vouchers, bills and claims of the several departments, and such as are by law made subject to the approval of the Governor and referred to it by the Governor, and no voucher, bill or claim of any department shall be allowed without its approval and certificate;

10. To prescribe the form of receipt, voucher, bill or claim to be filed by the several departments with it;

11. In settling the accounts of the several departments, to inquire into and make an inspection of articles and materials furnished or work and labor performed, for the purpose of ascertaining that the prices, quality and amount of such articles or labor are fair, just and reasonable, and that all the requirements, express and implied, pertaining thereto have been complied with, and to reject and disallow any excess;

12. To prepare and report to the Governor, when requested, estimates of the income and revenues of the State;

13. To prepare and submit to the Governor biennially, not later than the first day of January preceding the convening of the General Assembly, a State budget;

14. To publish, from time to time, for the information of the several departments and of the general public, bulletins of the work of the gov ernment;

15. To investigate duplication of work of departments and the efficiency of the organization and administration of departments, and to formulate plans for the better coordination of departments.

§ 37. In the preparation of a State budget, the Director of Finance shall, not later than the fifteenth day of September in the year preceding

the convening of the General Assembly, distribute to all departments and to all offices and institutions of the State government (including the elective officers in the executive department and including the University of Illinois and the judicial department) the proper blanks necessary to the preparation of budget estimates, which blanks shall be in such form. as shall be prescribed by the Director of Finance, to procure, among other things, information as to the revenues and expenditures for the two preceding fiscal years, the appropriations made by the previous General Assembly, the expenditures therefrom, encumbrances thereon, and the amounts unencumbered and unexpended, an estimate of the revenues and expenditures of the current fiscal year, and an estimate of the revenues and amounts needed for the respective departments and offices for the two years next succeeding beginning at the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the General Assembly. Each department, office and institution (including the elective officers in the executive and judicial departments and including the University of Illinois) shall, not later than the first day of November, file in the office of the Director of Finance its estimate of receipts and expenditures for the succeeding biennium. Such estimates shall be accompanied by a statement in writing giving facts and explanation of reasons for each item of expenditure requested. The Director of Finance may, in his discretion, make further inquiries and investigations as to any item dersired [desired]. He may approve, disapprove or alter the estimates. He shall, on or before the first day of January preceding the convening of the General Assembly, submit to the Governor in writing his estimates of revenues and appropriations for the next succeeding biennium.

§ 38. The Governor shall as soon as possible and not later than four weeks after the organization of the General Assembly submit a State budget, embracing therein the amounts recommended by him to be appropriated to the respective departments, offices, and institutions, and for all other public purposes, the estimated revenues from taxation, the estimated revenues from sources other than taxation, and an estimate of the amount required to be raised by taxation. Together with such budget, the Governor shall transmit the estimates of receipts and expenditures, as received by the Director of Finance, of the elective officers in the executive and judicial departments and of the University of Illinois.

§ 39. Each department shall, before an appropriation to such department becomes available for expenditure, prepare and submit to the department of finance an estimate of the amount required for each activity to be carried on, and accounts shall be kept and reports rendered showing the expenditures for each such purpose.

THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

40. The Department of Agriculture shall have power:

1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of Live Stock Commissioners, its officers and employees, except under the Act regulating the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery;

2. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State veterinarian, his assistants and employees;