CO129-533-4 Hong Kong Water Supply Scheme 28-1-1931 - 20-1-1932 — Page 17

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the fees Rat it

would be necessary to pay the Consulting

Engineers according to the amount

work

devolving upon them and the degree of

responsibility which they might be called

upon to accept. The proposal that the

work should be directly supervised by

the Consulting Engineers who would send out

their Resident Engineer for the purpose

is in accordance with alternative (b)

in the Crown Agents' letter referred to above,

and the Consulting Engineers will, therefore,

accept full responsibility for the whole

of the works, including the preparation of all

drawings and general supervision of the works.

The fees they would propose to charge would

be 5% on expenditure up to £250,000

and 41% on the remainder, plus the cost of the

partners' visits.

It is not the normal practice

normal practice of the formal

3. The Grown Agents state that they

mm Aguts to

do not normally enter into agreements with

in connection with what works of this halune.

firms of Consulting Engineers The terms

are

of payment, etc. being usually embodied in

(from the

a letter,

~ Age to to the firm)

and that

see no reason for

departing

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