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# Duties of Resident Engineer under departmental system, TOLIN'
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Colonial Government and the Secretary of State. It is desirable that this should be done before the work is begun, or, if time does not permit or further surveys are necessary, as soon as possible afterwards. The estimate serves as a guide both to the Resident Engineer and to those whose duty it is to check the expenditure. Any material revision of the estimate which may be necessary during the course of the work will be submitted for sanction in the same way as the original estimate.
The Consulting Engineer is primarily responsible both for the preparation of the detailed estimate and for promptly bringing to notice probable excesses of expenditure. The items on which excesses are likely to occur should be shown and the reasons for the excess explained.
10. The local control of the work is vested in a Resident Engineer selected by the Consulting Engineer and recommended by him to the Crown Agents for appointment. This Officer enters an agreement with the Crown Agents on behalf of the Colonial Government, the principal conditions of which are more or less stereotyped by usage, to serve the Government for such period and on such terms as may be arranged in each case.
He is for all purposes of discipline and account the servant of the Government, but for instructions bearing on the technical conduct of the work he looks to the Consulting Engineer, under whom he is responsible for its efficient and economical execution. It is his duty to keep the Consulting Engineer constantly informed of the progress of the work and to refer to him on all questions and difficulties which arise, so far as is consistent with not delaying the work.
When it is necessary for the Resident Engineer to take any important steps on his own responsibility he should report his action to the Consulting Engineer on the first opportunity. In all such matters as the design of buildings, position of stations,