3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the stallion registration board, its officers and employees;

4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State inspector of apiaries, his assistants and employees;

5. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State game and fish commission, its wardens, deputy wardens, officers and employees;

6. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State food commissioner, food standard commission, and the other officers and employees of the State food department;

7. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State entomologist, his officers and employees;

8. To execute and administer the act to prevent fraud in the manu facture and sale of commercial fertilizers;

9. To encourage and promote, in every practicable manner, the interests of agriculture, including horticulture, the live stock industry, dairying, cheese making, poultry, bee keeping, forestry, fishing, the production of wool, and all other allied industries;

10. To promote improved methods of conducting these several industries with a view to increasing the production and facilitate the distribution thereof at the least cost;

11. To collect and publish statistics relating to crop production and marketing, the production of and marketing beef, pork, poultry, fish, mutton, wool, butter, cheese and other agricultural products so far as such statistical information may be of value to the agricultural and allied interests of the State;

12. To encourage the planting of trees and shrubs and the improvement of farm homes generally;

13. To produce and manufacture biological products to be distributed to live stock producers at the actual cost thereof;

14. To inquire into the causes of contagious, infectious and communicable diseases among domestic animals, and the means for the prevention and cure of the same;

15. To take all measures necessary for the preservation, distribution, introduction and restoration of fish, game birds and other wild birds;

16. To be the custodian of the State fair grounds, buildings and other property belonging or attached thereto, and to maintain the same;

17. To hold annually a State fair in order to promote improved methods of agriculture, to encourage an increased yield of grains, grasses, fruits, vegetables and other crops and the raising of improved breeds of live stock and poultry, to acquaint farmers with the latest implements and machinery of agriculture, and to encourage the manufacture of butter, cheese and other products of agriculture;

18. To adopt and promulgate rules and regulations governing the holding of the State fair, which rules and regulations shall prescribe the kinds and classes of exhibits, the conditions under which they shall be received, installed and cared for, the conditions under which racing shall be permitted in the fair grounds and the rules governing the same,

the premiums to be offered and paid, the price of admission which shall be charged in all cases except for exhibitors and their bona fide employees, all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the War of the Rebellion, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection, and the Boxer uprising in China, and for children under five years of age, the methods by which judges of exhibits may be employed, and the manner certificates of award shall be prepared and premiums paid;

19. To police the State fair grounds, to maintain and preserve order thereon, and protect exhibits from theft, injury or destruction; 20. To assist, encourage and promote the organization of farmers' institutes, horticultural and agricultural societies, the holding of fairs, fat stock shows or other exhibits of the products of agriculture;

21. To investigate and ascertain that moneys appropriated for county fairs and farmers' institutes are faithfully applied to the purposes authorized by law;"

22. To see that live stock at stock yards, breweries, distilleries and other like places where live stock are confined, housed or fed, are properly cared for.

§ 41. The Director of Agriculture shall promulgate no standard of quality, purity and strength of food products for this State except that determined by the food standard commission.

§ 42. The people of the State of Illinois shall succeed to all the right, title and interest of the State Board of Agriculture in and to the State fair grounds, and to all lands, buildings, money, unexpended appropriations or other property connected therewith.

THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.

43. The Department of Labor shall have power:

1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the commissioners of labor, the secretary, other officers and employees of said commissioners of labor;

2. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the superintendents and assistant superintendents of free employment offices, general advisory board of free employment offices, local advisory boards of free employment offices, and other officers and employees of free employment offices;

3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the chief inspector of private employment agencies, inspectors of private employment agencies, their subordinate officers and employees;

4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the chief factory inspector, assistant chief factory inspector, deputy factory inspector, and all other officers and employees of the State factory inspection service;

5. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation, its officers and employees; 6. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the industrial board, its officers and employees;

7. To foster, promote and develop the welfare of wage earners; 8. To improve working conditions;

9. To advance opportunities for profitable employment;

10. To collect, collate, assort, systematize and report statistical details relating to all departments of labor, especially in its relation to commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary conditions, and to the permanent prosperity of the manufacturing and productive industries;

11. To collect, collate, assort, systematize and report statistical details of the manufacturing industries and commerce of the State;

12. To acquire and diffuse useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word; 13. To acquire and diffuse among the people useful information concerning the means of promoting the material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity of laboring men and women;

14. To acquire information and report upon the general condition, so far as production is concerned, of the leading industries of the State; 15. To acquire and diffuse information as to the conditions of employment, and such other facts as may be deemed of value to the industrial interests of the State;

16. To acquire and diffuse information in relation to the prevention of accidents, occupational diseases and other related subjects.

§ 44. The Department of Labor shall exercise and discharge the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the industrial board under an Act entitled, "An Act to promote the general welfare of the people of this State by providing compensation for accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of employment in this State; providing for the enforcement and administering thereof, and a penalty for its violation, and repealing an Act entitled, 'An Act to promote the general welfare of the people of this State by providing compensation for accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of employment,' approved June 10, 1911, in force May 1, 1912," approved June 28, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, or any future amendments thereto or modifications thereof.

Said Act and all amendments thereto and modifications thereof, if any, shall be administered by the industrial commission created by this Act, and in its name, without any direction, supervision, or control by the Director of Labor.

The Industrial Commission shall also, in its name and without any direction, supervision or control by the director, administer the arbitration and conciliation Act.

THE DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERALS.

§ 45. The Department of Mines and Minerals shall have power: 1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State mining board, its officers and employees;

2. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State mine inspectors;

3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the miners' examining commission, its officers and employees;

4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the mine fire fighting and rescue station commission, superintendents and

assistant superintendents, other officers and employees of the several mine rescue stations;

5. To acquire and diffuse information concerning the nature, causes and prevention of mine accidents;

6. To acquire and diffuse information concerning the improvement of methods, conditions and equipment of mines, with special reference to health, safety and conservation of mineral resources;

7. To make inquiries into the economic conditions affecting the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, clay, oil and other mineral industries;

8. To promote the technical efficiency of all persons working in and about the mines of the State, and to assist them better to overcome the increasing difficulties of mining, and for that purpose to provide bulletins, traveling libraries, lectures, correspondence work, classes for systematic instruction, or meetings for the reading and discussion of papers, and to that end to cooperate with the University of Illinois.

§ 46. The mining board, in the Department of Mines and Minerals, shall:

1. Hold such meetings, from time to time, as may be necessary for the proper discharge of its duties;

2. Conduct the examination and pass upon the practical and technological qualifications and personal fitness of all persons employed in the department of mines and minerals as inspectors of mines;

3. Conduct examinations and pass upon the practical and technological qualifications and personal fitness of persons seeking certificates of competency as mine managers, mine examiners and hoisting. engineers;

4. Conduct examinations, at the capitol, on the second Tuesday in September of each year and at such other times as may be necessary, of candidates for employment as inspectors of mines;

5. Conduct examinations of persons seeking certificates of competency as mine managers, mine examiners and hoisting engineers, at such times and places within the State as shall, in the judgment of the board, afford the best facilities to the greatest number of candidates;

6. Give public notice, through the public press, or otherwise, not less than ten days in advance, announcing the time and place at which any examination is to be held;

7. Prescribe uniform rules, conditions and regulations for the examination of persons seeking employment as inspectors of mines and of those seeking certificates of competency as mine managers, mine examiners and hoisting engineers;

8. Report in writing to the Director of Mines and Minerals the names of persons qualified to be employed by the department of mines and minerals as inspectors of mines, and of those authorized to receive certificates of competency as mine managers, mine examiners and hoisting engineers;

9. Supervise, control and direct the State mine inspection service; 10. Have power to remove any inspector of mines or to cancel the certificate of any mine manager, mine examiner or hoisting engineer, as provided in paragraphs (h) and (i) of section 3 of an Act entitled,

"An Act to revise the laws in relation to coal mines and subjects relating thereto, and providing for the health and safety of persons employed therein," approved June 6, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, and all amendments thereto, past or future, or modifications thereof;

11. Preserve and keep on file, for not less than one year, all written examination papers and all other papers of any applicant, and to permit the inspection thereof by any applicant interested, at all reasonable times, and to give to any applicant a certified copy of any or all of his. papers.

§ 47. The Director of Mines and Minerals shall be the executive officer of the mining board and shall execute the orders, rules and regulations made and promulgated by the mining board, and shall issue, in the name of the department of mines and minerals, certificates of qualification and competency to persons certified to him by the mining board, and to no other persons.

§ 48. The Department of Mines and Minerals shall exercise and discharge the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the miners' examining commissioners, constituting the miners' examining board for the State of Illinois, under an act entitled, "An Act to provide for the safety to persons employed in and about coal mines, and to provide for the examination of persons seeking employment therein, in order that only competent persons may be employed as miners, and to create a board of examiners for this purpose, and to provide a penalty for the violation of the same, and to repeal an Act entitled, 'An Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the safety of persons employed in and about coal mines and to provide for the examination of persons seeking employment as coal miners, and providing penalties for the violation of the same," approved June 1, 1908, in force July 1, 1908,' approved June 5, 1909, in force July 1, 1909," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, and all amendments thereto, past or future, or modifications thereof.

Said Act and all amendments thereto and modifications thereof, if any, shall be administered by the miners' examining board created by this Act, and in its name, without any direction, supervision or control by the Director of Mines and Minerals, or by the mining board.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS.

§ 49. The Department of Public Works and Buildings shall have power:

1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State highway department, the State highway commission, the chief State highway engineer, the assistant State highway engineer, and other officers and employees of the State highway service;

2. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in “The Canal Commissioners," their officers and employees;

3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the rivers and lakes commission of Illinois, its officers and employees;