not accessible, the Director of Public Wor ks may, with the approval of the Department head, appoint such physicians at fixed monthly salaries as may be, in his judgment, for the best interest of the service, the cost of the same being chargeable to the funds available for the project in question. 

[2319-1 (Bur. Pub. Works).] 

## ARTICLE II 

## District Engineers 

SECTION 1134 . Engineering Districts . — With the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, the Director of Public Works shall divide the Philippine Islands into such number of engineering districts as shall from time to time be deemed advisable. The  several engineering districts shall, as far as practicable, be coextensive with the territorial limits of the respective provinces. 

[1401-2.] 

SECTION 1135 . District Engineer . — To each engineering district shall be assigned a civil engineer, who shall be known as the district engineer. With the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, a district engineer may be changed by the Director of  Public Works from one district to another, or he may be assigned to other duty, or additional duties, as the service may require. cDSaEH 

The Director of Public Works shall designate the respective official stations of the district engineers, and it shall be the duty of the provincial board to provide the requisite quarters, fixtures, furniture, equipment, and office and engineering supplies  for his office. 

[1401-2, 13.] 

SECTION 1136 . Functions of District Engineer . — The district engineer shall have general supervision over the construction, maintenance, and repair of provincial public works of the district to which he is assigned and over all contracts connected with suc h works. 

[1752-1; 2319-1 (Bur. Pub. Works).] 

Upon request of any provincial board in his district, the district engineer shall make investigations and surveys of proposed construction or repair of public works, and shall submit to said provincial board reports and estimates of the cost of constructio n or repair of such proposed works with his recommendations, and he shall, subject to the regulations of the Bureau of Public Works, prepare plans 

