4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the Illinois waterway commission, its secretary, chief engineers, its other officers and employees;

5. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the Illinois park commission, its officers and employees;

6. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the Fort Massac trustees, their officers and employees;

7. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the Lincoln homestead trustees, their officers and employees;

8. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of commissioners of and for the Lincoln monument grounds, its officers and employees;

9. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the superintendent of printing, his officers and employees;

10. To make contracts for and superintend the telegraph and telephone service for the several departments;

11. To purchase and supply all fuel, light, water and other like office and building services for the several departments except where the same are now supplied by the Secretary of State;

12. To procure and supply all furniture, general office equipment and general office supplies (other than stationery and office supplies distributed through the office of the Secretary of State) needed by the several departments;

13. To procure and supply all clothing, instruments and apparatus, subsistence and provisions for the charitable, penal and reformatory institutions;

14. To procure and supply all cots, beds, bedding, general room and cell equipment, table, kitchen and laundry equipment, agricultural implements, harness, stable and garage supplies, household supplies, periodicals, machinery and tools, medicines and medical supplies, plumbing, light and engine supplies, wagons and other vehicles and workshop supplies needed by the several departments;

14a. To purchase and supply all necessary tools, machinery, supplies and materials to be used by the State in or about constructing or maintaining State highways;

15. To prepare, or cause to be prepared, general plans, preliminary sketches and estimates for the public buildings to be erected for any department;

16. To have general supervision over the erection and construction of public buildings erected for any department, and over the inspection of all materials previous to their incorporation into such buildings or work;

17. To make contracts for, and supervise the construction and repair of buildings under the control of any department;

18. To prepare and suggest comprehensive plans for the development of grounds and buildings under the control of any department; 19. To make and provide all drawings, plans, specifications and models for the construction and perfection of all systems of sewerage,

drainage and plumbing for the State in connection with the buildings and grounds under the control of any department;

20. To erect, supervise and maintain all public monuments and memorials erected by the State except where the supervision and maintenance thereof is otherwise provided by law;

21. To lease, for a term not exceeding two years, storage accommodations for the several departments;

22. To lease, for a term not exceeding two years, unproductive and unused lands or other property under the control of any department, unless longer leases thereof are expressly authorized by some law enforced by the department;

23. To lease, for a term not exceeding two years, office space in buildings for the use of the several departments;

24. To have general supervision and care of storerooms and offices leased for the use of the departments.

§ 50. The advisory and non-executive boards in the department of public works shall discharge the following advisory powers and functions:

The board of art advisors shall advise relative to the artistic character of State buildings, works and monuments, now or hereafter constructed, and to any work of a permanent character intended for decoration or commemoration;

The board of water resource advisors shall advise relative to riparian rights of the State, and the conservation, use and development of water

resources;

The board of highway advisors shall advise relative to the construction, improvement and maintenance of State highways;

The board of parks and buildings advisors shall advise relative to the construction, improvement and maintenance of State parks, buildings and monuments.

§ 51. The Director of Public Works is authorized, with the consent in writing of the Governor, to acquire, by private purchase or by condemnation under the eminent domain Act, the necessary lands for the public buildings and grounds for the departments.

§ 52. All moneys received by the Director of Public Works from rents, leases, sale of property or from any other source in connection with the management of the Illinois and Michigan Canal shall be covered into the State treasury, and shall be placed by the State Treasurer to the credit of a special fund to be known as the "Illinois and Michigan. Canal fund."

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE.

§ 53. The Department of Public Welfare shall have power: 1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of administration, the fiscal supervisor, and other officers and employees of the board of administration;

2. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State deportation agent, his assistants, other officers and employees;

3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State agent for the visitation of children, his assistants, other officers and employees;

4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the commissioners, warden, deputy wardens, chaplains, physicians, stewards, matrons, turnkeys, watchmen, and all other officers and employees of the Illinois State penitentiary at Joliet;

5. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the commissioners, warden, deputy warden, chaplain, physician, steward, matron, turnkeys, watchmen, and all other officers and employees of the Southern Illinois penitentiary;

6. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of managers of the Illinois State reformatory, its superintendent, chaplain, physician and all other officers and employees;

7. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of prison industries of Illinois, its officers and employees;

8. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of prison industries of Illinois, the president of the State Board of Public Charities, and the Auditor of Public Accounts of Illinois, constituting a board known as the board of classification, its officers and employees;

9. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of pardons, its secretary and other officers and employees.

54. The board of public welfare commissioners shall, in addition to the power vested by this Act in advisory and non-executive boards, have power, and it shall be its duty:

1. To investigate into the condition and management of the whole system of charitable, penal and reformatory institutions of the State, including State hospitals, penitentiaries, reformatories, jails and almshouses;

2. To investigate, when directed by the Governor, into any or all phases of the equipment, management or policy of any State charitable, penal or reformatory institution, and report its findings and recommendations to the Governor;

3. To inquire into the equipment, management and policies of all institutions and organizations coming under the supervision and inspection of the Department of Public Welfare;

4. To collect and publish annually statistics relating to insanity and crime.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

§ 55. The Department of Public Health shall have power:

1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health, its secretary and executive officer, other officers and employees, except the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health under the Act to regulate the practice of medicine and the Act to regulate the practice of embalming;

2. To have the general supervision of the interests of the health and lives of the people of the State;

3. To act in advisory capacity relative to public water supplies, water purification works, sewerage system, and sewage treatment works, and to exercise supervision over nuisances growing out of the operation of such water and sewage works, and to make, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations relating to such nuisances;

4. To make such sanitary investigations as it may, from time to time, deem necesary for the preservation and improvement of public health;

5. To make examinations into nuisances and questions affecting the security of life and health in any locality in the State;

6. To maintain chemical, bacteriological and biological laboratories, to make examinations of milk, water, sewage, wastes, and other substances, and to make such diagnosis of diseases as may be deemed necessary for the protection of the people of the State;

7. To purchase and distribute free of charge to citizens of the State diphtheria antitoxin, typhoid vaccine, smallpox vaccine and other sera, vaccines and prophylactics such as are of recognized efficiency in the prevention and treatment of communicable diseases;

8. To obtain, collect and preserve such information relative to mortality, morbidity, disease and health as may be useful in the discharge of its duties or may contribute to the promotion of health or to the security of life in this State;

9. To make investigations and inquiries with respect to the causes of disease, especially epidemics, and to investigate the causes of mortality and the effect of localities, and other conditions upon the public health, and to make such other sanitary investigations as it may deem necesary for the preservation and improvement of the public health;

10. To keep informed of the work of local health officers and agencies throughout the State;

11. To promote the information of the general public in all matters pertaining to public health;

12. To supervise, aid, direct and assist local health authorities or agencies in the administration of the health laws;

13. To enlist the cooperation of organizations of physicians and other agencies for the promotion of the public health in the improvement of health and sanitary conditions throughout the State;

14. To make sanitary, sewage, health and other inspections and examinations for the charitable, penal and reformatory institutions and the normal schools;

15. To inspect, from time to time, all hospitals, sanitaria, and other institutions conducted by county, city, village or township authorities, and to report as to the sanitary conditions and needs of such hospitals, sanitaria and institutions to the official authority having jurisdiction over them;

16. To print, publish and distribute documents, reports, bulletins. certificates and other matter relating to the prevention of diseases and the health and sanitary condition of the State.

THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND COMMERCE.

§ 56. The Department of Trade and Commerce shall have power: 1. To exercise through the Public Utilities Commission created by this Act all the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Public Utilities Commission, its officers and employees;

2. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the insurance superintendent, his officers and employees;

3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the chief inspector of grain, deputy grain inspectors, deputy chief grain inspector, and the warehouse registrar, the assistant warehouse registrars, State weighmasters, assistate State weighmasters, and other officers and employees of the grain inspection service;

4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the inspectors of automatic couplers, power brakes and grab irons or hand holds on railroad locomotives, tenders, cars and similar vehicles, their officers and employees;

5. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State fire marshal, deputy State fire marshal, inspectors and other officers. and employees of the State fire marshal;

6. To execute and administer all laws and regulations, now or hereafter enacted, relating to weights and measures;

7. To execute and administer all laws and regulations, now or hereafter enacted, relating to standards of quantity and quality of and for commodities;

8. To execute and administer all laws and regulations, now or hereafter enacted, relating to the safety and purity of illuminating oils. and gasoline.

57. The Public Utilities Commission created by this Act shall exercise and discharge the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Public Utilities Commission under an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the regulation of public utilities," approved June 30, 1913, in force January 1, 1914, or any future amendments thereto or modifications thereof.

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

THE DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION.

§ 58. The Department of Registration and Education shall have

power:

1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of education of the State of Illinois, the board of trustees. of the Southern Normal University at Carbondale, the board of trustees of the Northern Illinois State Normal School at DeKalb, the board of trustees of the Eastern Illinois State Normal School at Charleston, and the board of trustees of the Western Illinois State Normal School at Macomb;