[ Act No. 444, August 07, 1902 ]
AN ACT CREATING THE OFFICE OF CONSULTING ENGINEER TO THE COMMISSION.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The office of Consulting Engineer to the Commission is hereby created. The incumbent thereof shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Commission, and shall be paid at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars for the first year and at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum thereafter.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of the Consulting Engineer to advise the Civil Governor and the Commission upon all matters pertaining to engineering work as to which his advice may be desired by the Commission. He shall also make any reconnoissances, surveys, or do other work requiring engineering skill that may be directed by the Civil Governor or the Commission. He may also be placed in personal charge and direction of any work of harbor or river improvement, sewer construction, or other engineering work provided to be done by the Commission. He may also, in the discretion of the Civil Governor, be given general supervision and direction of the provincial supervisors in so far as relates to the laying out and construction of roads, public building, or other engineering work.1aшphi1
Section 3. The Consulting Engineer shall for the present have the following assistants, to be appointed by him: One civil engineer, class seven, and one clerk, class nine, both to be in the classified service and to be selected according to the provisions of the Civil Service Act.
Section 4. The Consulting Engineer and the assistant engineer, when absent from the city of Manila on duty, shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses and actual subsistence expenses, the latter not to exceed two dollars, money of the United States, per day. When transportation by steamship, Government transport, or otherwise includes subsistence, no per diem shall be paid or allowed for such portion of the journey.
Section 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, August 7, 1902.
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