Mich. Comp. Laws § 400.19
The powers and duties vested by law in the board of corrections and charities and transferred to the state welfare commission, in the state welfare department, in the director of the state welfare department, in the state welfare commission and in the state institute commission as relating to the Michigan employment institution for the blind at Saginaw are hereby transferred to and vested in the state department of social welfare herein created. Immediately on the taking effect of this act, the departments, boards, commissions and officers whose powers and duties are hereby transferred shall be abolished, and, whenever reference thereto is made in any law of the state, reference shall be deemed to be intended to be made to the state department of social welfare.
MCL 400.19