UNLV Special Collections provides copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. Material not in the public domain may be used according to fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law. Please cite us.
Please note that UNLV may not own the copyright to these materials and cannot provide permission to publish or distribute materials when UNLV is not the copyright holder. The user is solely responsible for determining the copyright status of materials and obtaining permission to use material from the copyright holder and for determining whether any permissions relating to any other rights are necessary for the intended use, and for obtaining all required permissions beyond that allowed by fair use.
This material is made available to facilitate private study, scholarship, or research. It may be protected by copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity rights, or other interests not owned by UNLV. Users are responsible for determining whether permissions are necessary from rights owners for any intended use and for obtaining all required permissions. Acknowledgement of the UNLV University Libraries is requested. For more information, please see the UNLV Special Collections policies on reproduction and use (https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions) or contact us at special.collections@unlv.edu.
Digital Provenance
Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Transcription
I have your joint letter December 11th, together with enclosures referred to, also copy of Mr.Clark’s acknAWlfedgsieri.tT.there'hf? dated December.12th, concerning contracts covering construction of hohSee for employe8 at Las Vegas. H n*Vt\«*> ^li^Jkfcve: looked overthe several forms of contracts submit ted y°ur ; joint- letter ofthellth ins tan t, and it seems to: me they aro in very good shape and cover the situation sat.isfactorily, with: the aingle exception that it occurs to me that in the: contract with the builder it night he well to insert after the provision for the j§j|j being ^approved hy Tilton, engineer of said owner"/'the . following or equivalent, words: Mor the successor of said engineer; and whenever the term f engineer* is hereafter used in this contract, the same shall he understood to mean said engineer designated or his successor." This suggestion occurs to me for the reason that Mr.Tilton .might resign, or some other cause might prevent him from continuing in the position named; and to avoid any question arising it occurred to me that some addition about as suggested might be inserted in
