Engineer.
Section 18
SEC. 18. Engineer.—There shall be detailed to the department a senior supervising engineer who shall be under the general supervision of the Director of Public Works and his duties and powers shall include those prescribed for district engineers under Act Numbered Fourteen hundred one, and the laws amendatory thereof: Provided, however, That the powers and duties of the Director of Public Works in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu shall be vested temporarily in the supervising engineer subject to the control of the department governor until such time or times as the Governor-General by executive order may authorize the Director of Public Works to exercise such powers and perform such duties in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu or any part or parts thereof. (a) Road construction, and so forth.—By agreement with the president of each municipality, he shall fix the territory within which the duty of repairing, constructing, and maintaining roads, bridges, culverts, and ferries shall fall upon the municipal government, and that in which such duty shall fall upon the provincial government or the department as the case may be, and in the event of any disagreement the issue shall be settled by the department governor whose decision shall be final: Provided, however, That in case two or more municipalities of a province fail to agree, the controversy shall be decided by the provincial board. From the decision of the board an appeal may be taken to the department governor. (b) General laws.—The general provisions of law concerning public works, now in force in the provinces organized under Act Numbered Eighty-three and in the municipalities organized under Act Numbered Eighty-two shall apply to the Department of Mindanao and Sulu: Provided, however, That prior to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred fourteen, or until such time as the Department of Mindanao and Sulu shall participate in the regular Insular allotment of road and bridge funds on the same basis as the provinces organized under Act Numbered Eighty-three, the Insular surcharge on public works shall not be collected on the public works of the said department.