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There is transferred from the Social Programs Administration of the Department of Agriculture to said Department the personnel, equipment, machinery, vehicles, archives, records, credit balances, obligations, rights, inventories, facilities and all kinds of properties and funds, including appropriation balances and appropriation items, pledged and not pledged, relative to the administration and operation of Title VI. The personnel to be transferred shall hold their present classification within the noncompetitive service in accordance with the act which created the personnel office of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and those who are appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out and fulfill the provisions of this title shall also be within the noncompetitive service of the said personnel office. History —Dec. 7, 1966, No. 5, p. 24, § 1.