Section 2
SEC. 2. In the establishment of harbor lines for any harbor, bay, or navigable lake or river of the Philippine Islands under this Act, the Secretary of Commerce and Police is authorized to appoint a commission to recommend to him the proper harbor lines. Said commission is authorized to employ, for a reasonable sum to be approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Police, such surveyors as may be needed to run the lines, the compensation to be paid out of the Insular Treasury upon proper appropriation. The Consulting Engineer to the Commission shall be ex officio a member of such commission, and the chief engineer in charge of the improvement of any port in the Islands shall be ex officio a member of such commission when the harbor lines are to be run insuch port. The other member of the commission shall be an officer of the Insular Government designated by the Secretary of Commerce and Police. It shall be the duty of the commission to supervise the necessary survey of the harbor lines, to agree upon the proper lines to be adopted, and to recommend the same to the Secretary of Commerce and Police for his approval.