In any county in which the board of supervisors adopts the provisions of this act, section 2 of the act creating the soldiers’ relief commission created under the provisions of Act No. 214 of the Public Acts of 1899, as amended, being section 35.22 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, is hereby declared to be inoperative and the powers and duties of commission are hereby transferred to the county department of veterans’ affairs created under the provisions of this act, and wherever soldiers’ relief commission is used in Act No. 214 of the Public Acts of 1899, as amended, and Act No. 235 of the Public Acts of 1911, as amended, being section 35.801 to 35.804 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, it shall mean the county department of veterans’ affairs herein created.