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BCG: Mr. Wm. Reinhardt Sept. 14, 1951 4747-11-64 Mr. Robert A. Allen, Chairman Public Service Commission of Nevada Carson City, Nevada ;; Dear Mr. Allen: I very much appreciate your letter of September 11th in connection with application filed by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company to add Rule 9.5(a) and (b) to its Rules whereby we would be authorized to refuse water connection to new customers under such conditions as the Commission may prescribe. graph of your letter relative to the Legislature being in sympathy with a move to repeal the present law prohibiting the installation of meters. fact but the Water Company has, on three separate occasions, attempted to have that law either repealed in its entirety or to be amended to permit the installation of meters in the City of Las Vegas. At no time have we ever received the cooperation of any of the members of the Legislature from Clark County and, as a matter of fact, at the 1951 session we not only received no cooperation but we were advised that if such a bill were introduced, certain legislators from Clark County would see that it “died in committee'’. We were further advised, in attempting to have the bill introduced by legislators other than those from Clark County, that the matter was a “local Clark County matter* and should be introduced by members of the Clark County delegation, and the Clark County delegation'informally but forcibly all stated off the record, that it was “too hot to handle I was particularly interested in the para- I do not know whether you are aware of the SEP 17 1951 L. C. C.