its and authentications of copies of records and
official papers, and to such other instruments as may be authorized
by law or prescribed by the proper authority in any department to be
executed. When so authenticated, any copy of such record, official
paper, or other instrument shall be received in evidence in any
court in lieu of the original.

Each department shall provide for the keeping, within such
department, of such records and journals as may be necessary to
exhibit its official actions and proceedings.

Sec. 154-19. Each department is empowered to employ, subject to the
civil service laws in force at the time the employment is made, the
necessary employes, and, if the rate of compensation is not
otherwise fixed by law, to fix their compensation. Nothing in this
chapter shall be construed to amend, modify or repeal the civil
service laws of the state, except as herein expressly provided.

All offices created by sections 154-5 and 154-6 of the General Code
shall be in the unclassified civil service of the state.

Sec. 154-20. All employes in the several departments shall render
not less than eight hours, of labor each day, Saturday afternoons,
Sundays and days declared by law to be holidays excepted in cases in
which, in the judgment of the director, the public service will not
thereby be impaired.

Each employe 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 of the department, be extended. No
employe in the several departments, employed at a fixed
compensation, shall be paid for any extra services, unless expressly
authorized by law.

Sec. 154-21. Under the direction of the governor, the directors of
departments shall devise a practical and working basis for
cooperation and coordination of work and for the elimination of
duplication and overlapping functions. They shall, so far as
practicable, cooperate 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 employe of another department,
subject to the consent of the superior officer of the employe, to
perform any duty which he might require of his own subordinates.

Sec. 154-22. Each department shall make and file a repo