Section 5
SEC. 5. All material employed in the construction of the line shall he of good class and quality adaptable to the conditions of the country. The rails shall be of steel of a weight not less than sixty-five pounds per yard, giving one hundred and two and fourteen one-hundredths tons per mile and shall be thirty feet long. Two thousand one hundred and twelve sleepers, six feet by eight inches by five inches, of native hard wood, shall be employed per mile of track. In the case of its not being possible to obtain the number required from the forests of the Archipelago with the necessary despatch, due to want of proper machinery and insufficient labor. Australian hard woods, puriog, maire, ironbark, karri, and kauri, used on the Australian Government railways, shall be employed.