Section 11
SEC. 11. (a) The provincial supervisor shall have supervision of the construction, repair, and maintenance of the roads, bridges, and ferries of the province. He shall also have charge of the construction and repair of public buildings and the offices of the provincial government, and shall be the custodian thereof under the direction of the provincial board, it shall be his duty to see that the roads, bridges, and public buildings of the province are kept in proper repair, and he shall make monthly reports to the provincial hoard as to the condition of the roads, bridges, and public buildings of the province, and shall recommend to the board the repairs and new construction which are necessary. All contracts for the construction, repair, and maintenance of provincial buildings, roads, bridges, or ferries shall be let by the provincial supervisor, with the approval of the provincial board, and no payment, partial or final, upon any contract made for such work shall be made except upon the certificate of the supervisor that the same is due. Before a contract is let for work it shall be the duty of the supervisor to prepare proper plans and specifications and to make an estimate of the cost thereof, and to submit the same to the provincial board. Copies of all contracts made by the supervisor with the approval of the provincial board shall be forwarded by the supervisor to the Auditor for the Philippine Islands and to the Consulting Engineer to the Commission, and he shall submit monthly reports of all engineering work prosecuted during the month to the Consulting Engineer to the Commission. (b) In preparing plans and specifications for the construction and repair of buildings for secondary schools, to be undertaken by the province as hereinafter provided the provincial supervisor shall consult with the Insular Architect and with the superintendent of the school division in which the province is located; and such plans and specifications shall be subject to the approval of the latter or of the General Superintendent of Education, in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Seventy-four, as amended, before the work may be undertaken. (c) All stationery and office supplies of every character shall ho purchased by him, upon the order of the provincial board, for the use of the provincial officers. He shall keep a property account, in which be shall charge the provincial officers with the furniture or other personal property delivered to them and held or used, by them for public purposes', and shall take receipts for all supplies thus delivered by him. (d) He shall give bond to the Government of the Philippine Islands, for whom it may concern, to secure the proper accounting for all money, property and supplies intrusted to his custody. It shall be the duty of the Governor-General to fix the amount of: the bond, and of the Treasurer of the 'Philippine Islands to approve the same and record and retain it in his custody. In case of a vacancy in the office of provincial supervisor, or when, for any reason, such officer can not perform his duties, the provincial treasurer shall be vested with the power to purchase stationery and office supplies, and in making such purchases and delivering the same to the provincial officers he shall keep a, property account and take receipts required of the provincial supervisor by paragraph (c) of this section.