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Commission, the Company will enter into contracts for tec refund of the cost of constructing water mains * advanced by others to and within Defense Housing Projects , located in the present city limits of the City of Has Vegas, fievacta, tut with-in a distance frcta the Company *s nearest existing water mi n , equal to not more than SO feet multi­plied by the number of Houses which such others agree with the Compasy to construct within such project, k Defense Housing Project within tb© meaning. of this rule is a project trader which the party ©on-traoting with the Cempony constructs within a eub-division* the plat of which has been filed with' the '.County Hcoor&or of Clark County, Hovada, not less than twenty (20) dwelling bouses, but at least on© dwelling house for each fifty (50) feet of such water m i n s constructed within such subdivision.. Such contract shall provide* that such water umlns shall be constructed at the cost of ttm party con-toacthig with the Company and under the supervision of tlse-WosipoKyj that such water m i n s shall be own-ed, operated and mintain»d,by the Company upon the ceapletion of the construction hereof end that th© Compaq shall refund to the party contracting wi th the- Ccaosny,. the cost thereof if. and when said party ©hall have seriated the construction of the number of house© required by ©aid contract, within 24 months from tbs date of suds, contract* Such contract m y contain other reasonable provisions not incon­sistent with the other previsions of this, rule, Shi & rule shall i w m t e in effect only during the pre-spot 'national ^^ergency.*® • v; _ 1 feel our Rule 9-A is equitable in the ease of. a ©ufo-division in which the subdivider develops raw land by installa­tion of streets and public utilities and thereafter sells lots upon which the purchaser m y or may not construct aments , in which case It may be several years before any substantial number of water consumers are served by the mains. Ilosaolllni, however, contends, and I agree there is merit to his armament, that in the cose of a housing project in which a substantial number of h a m s are .to be immediately constructed, the Water Compaq will Shortly after completion of the housing facilities receive substantial revenue from sal© of water to consumers located in the Tract. When the Public Service Commission agreed to the cancel' lotion of Rule 9-C in 1945, the order provided*