Section 5
SEC. 5. Upon receipt of a request from any provincial board, requests tor municipality, barrio, or from any group of inhabitants in the locality interested in obtaining a portion of the funds authorized by this Act, together with a promise on their part to pay an equitable rate to the Government of the Philippine Islands for the use of the water in such quantities as to reimburse the Government for the cost of the irrigation works within a given number of years, which shall not exceed twenty, the Secretary of Commerce and Police, if he is satisfied with the conditions contained in the Plans and specification request, shall instruct the general superintendent of irrigation to prepare the plans and specifications for the irrigation system requested and the probable cost of such system, within the period of ninety days; and, if these estimates and specifications are satisfactory, the construction of the said system will at once be started under the direction of the general superintendent of irrigation or of one of his agents, who, when the work is finished will certify the same to the Secretary of Commerce and Police.