Section 2
SEC. 2. The purposes of this Act there is hereby created in Bureau of Public Works a division of irrigation, at whose head shall be be a general superintendent of irrigation who shall be an experienced hydraulic engineer and shall be appointed by the Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission. The duties of the general superintendent of irrigation shall be to have supervision and direction of the general investigation and construction of irrigation systems throughout the Philippine Islands. He shall receive an annual salary of eight thousand pesos and bis actual and necessary traveling expenses when absent from his office in the performance of his official duties.