N.J. Stat. § 30:4B-7
For the purpose of defraying the costs of administering, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951, the functions herein transferred to the State Department of Human Services and the Commissioner of Human Services, respectively, pursuant to section five of this act, the State Department of Human Services may expend, from the appropriation made to it for relief subsidies in the General Appropriations Law for the fiscal year, an amount not in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00); and in employing additional personnel, for the administration of the functions, powers and duties transferred under this act, the Commissioner of Human Services shall give preference, wherever possible but in his absolute discretion, to the present employees of the Department of Conservation and Economic Development and the Division of Budget and Accounting in the Department of the Treasury, who have been engaged in the administration of any of the functions, powers and duties in the departments, by transferring them to substantially similar positions and employments, having in mind the fitness of the employees for the performance of the duties to be assigned to them, in the Division of Economic Assistance in the State Department of Human Services and persons so transferred shall hold the positions and employments with the same civil service status and the same tenure and pension rights, as they formerly had in the respective departments from which they are so transferred.
N.J.S. § 30:4B-7