The act, approved the second day of July, one thousand nine hundred thirty-seven (Pamphlet Laws, two thousand seven hundred twenty-four), entitled “An act relating to soil conservation and soil erosion, and regulating land use practices contributing to soil wastage and soil erosion; providing for the organization of soil conservation districts, as governmental subdivisions of the Commonwealth, with powers of enacting ordinances and regulations for the prevention and control of soil erosion and the conservation of soil resources; prescribing the officers and employes thereof, and defining their powers and duties; creating the State Soil Conservation Board in the Department of Agriculture and imposing powers and prescribing duties thereon relative to the enforcement of this act; providing financial assistance to such soil conservation districts; prescribing penalties, and making an appropriation,” as amended, is hereby repealed,¹ except that districts now chartered and operating under said acts, lying wholly in one county, may continue to operate thereunder with the State Soil Conservation Commission replacing the State Soil Conservation Board until the board of county commissioners, in the county in which such district is located, declare the county to be a soil conservation district at which time their affairs shall be closed out and all assets and records turned over to the board of directors of the newly declared district, or when a district now chartered and operating under said acts has boundaries which extend into two counties it may continue to operate thereunder with the State Soil Conservation Commission replacing the State Soil Conservation Board until the county commissioners, in the county in which the major part of such district is located, declare that county to be a soil conservation district, at which time the affairs of such district shall be closed out and all assets and records turned over to the board of directors of the newly declared district (in the case where a soil conservation district now organized shall comprise territory outside of the county containing its principal territory, the portion outside shall be administered by the board of directors of the newly formed district comprising the county where the principal territory is located until such time as the county where the outside portion is located shall constitute itself a soil conservation district under this act, whereupon the said outside portion shall become a part of the county district wherein it is geographically located) and in cases where the board or boards of county commissioners fails or fail to organize under this act, said district or districts may continue to function as heretofore under said acts.