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equal to not more than SO feet multiplied by the number of houses ?which such others agree with the Company to construct within such project. A Defense Housing Project within the meaning of this rule is a project under which the party contracting with the Company constructs within a subdivision, the plat of which has been filed with the County Recorder of Clark County, Nevada, not less than twenty (20) dwelling houses, but at least one dwelling house for each fifty (50) feet of such water mains constructed within such subdivision* Such contract shall provide that such water mains shall be constructed at the cost of the party contracting with the Company and under the supervision and in accordance with the customary specifications of the Company} that such water mains shall be owned, operated and maintained fey the Company upon the completion of the eons true tion thereof and that the Company shall refund to the party contracting with the Company the cost thereof if and when said party shall have completed the construction of the number ofhouses required by said contract, within £4 months from the date of such contract* Such contract may contain other reasonable provisions not inconsistent with the other provisions of this rule. This rule shall remain in effect only during the present National Emergency. On May 29, 1945, the Commission issued its Suspension Order suspending the cancellation of Rule 9(c) for a period of sixty (60) days from and after June 3, 1943, pending hearing and investigation. Hearing was held June 16, 1943, at Las Vegas, Nevada. At the start of the hearing, applicant’s attorney read into the record their three-page letter of May 1 , 1943, to the Commission, givings (a) The reason for Rule 9(c) being incorporated into their regulations, which was for facilitating the emergency program for construction of homes for defense workers in Las Vegas. (b) The contracts entered into and about to be entered into with builders since the promulgation of Rule 9(c) on January 29, 1942, to date. The total of these contracts were for the building of 1,144 houses and obligated the Las Vegas Land & Water Company to refund #155,858*89 for water-main extensions to various builders in various subdivisions • (e) Some of these houses, as listed, really contain four dwelling units* (d) Of the 1,144 dwellings listed above, 450 were then occupied, (May 1, 1943), and the majority of the 694 remaining would be available for occupancy as soon as city sewage facilities were available.