Section 9
SEC. 9. The Consulting Engineer to the Commission shall appoint such permanent employees as may be authorized by law or as may be required to assist the district engineer in the discharge of his duties, or may temporarily assign such additional engineers or other assistants to any district as may seem to him advisable. The district engineer shall appoint, subject to the approval of the Consulting Engineer, such temporary employees as may be necessary for the prosecution of the authorized surveys, investigations, and constructions. Such temporary employees shall not necessarily be subject, to the provisions of the Civil Service Act and Acts amendatory thereof, but employees belonging to the classified service may be transferred to such work without losing their status in the classified service. The salaries of the district engineer and other employees provided for in this section shall be paid by the Insular Government from funds appropriated for the Bureau of Engineering, except in the case of temporary employees engaged in sum'- specific provincial or municipal public work where their salaries and wages are properly payable from provincial or municipal funds, in which case such salaries and wages shall be covered by appropriations of the province or municipality, as the ease may be.