The Commission is hereby given the authority to request any state officer or the head of any department, board, commission, agency or institution of the State of Oklahoma whose records and archives are being checked to furnish as many persons in the employ thereof, as in its discretion are necessary, to properly check and survey the records and archives of said state officer, department, board, commission, agency or institution. And it shall be the duty of any state officer, or the head of any department, board, commission, agency or institution to furnish the number of persons requested by the said Commission. Said employees so assigned to the Commission shall be under its direction and supervision in the performance of the functions set out by this act.¹