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NATIONAL HOUSING AGING* FEDERAL PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY 78$ Market Street San Franci000 3, California Movaiaber 19, 1943 Lae Vegas Land and later Go. Lae Vegma, Nevada. Gentlement Recent water billing of your company to the Housing Authority of the County of Clart, Nevada, have been called to our at* tentlent specifically, the bills we have in mind, all for the year 1943, are as follows! July $@80.00, August f9C1.00, September $771.76, October $447,13. As you realise, the Ootober billing Is arbitrarily based on the average billing for the previous twelve months and the bill statist "Meter By-Passed for Repairs." The faulty meter condition thus noted on the October bill obviously is reflected also in the September bill from which have been partially erased the words "out of order*. We have reviewed the water bills from June, 1943, through May, 1943* and find that the average bill per month is §304,7?. The largest bill was for June, 1943, in the amount of $558,91. This average bill for the early period indicated is to be compared with the Ootober, 1943, bill in the amount of $447.13, which your company arrived at by averaging the preceding twelve months. It is clear that the average you computed clearly reflects the heavy billings which occurred during months in which the water meter was out of order. In JUly of 1943 the billing was $500.30$ in August, 1943, $256.48$ in September, 1942, $459,53$ in October, 1942, $330.10. These figures are for comparison with the billing# during the. same months of the current year as set out abotn. It would see® from the clear fact that the meter was out of condition at the time of the billing for October and fro® the apparent further fact that the mater was out of order at the time of the September billing, together with the fact that the July, August, September and Ootober bills ere excessive, by