Section 1
SECTION 1. The Civil Governor shall appoint, by and with the consent, of the Commission, a chief civil engineer and an assistant civil engineer having experience in locating railroads in tropical countries, whose duties it shall be to visit the islands of the Philippine Archipelago and to examine the same with a view of determining upon the practicable and useful routes for the construction of railroads, make preliminary reconnoissances and surveys of the same, and make full report of their examinations, surveys, and conclusions to the Civil Governor, which report shall be published in the United States for the purpose of encouraging the investment of capital in railroad construction in said Islands. Such engineer and his assistant when appointed shall be under the general supervisory control of the Consulting Engineer to the Commission.