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perfect honesty in this matter, and the builder would naturally 

 rely on the honest estimate of a skilled person." 



7. Clause drawing attention of the contractor to the bills of 

 quantities. It is sometimes considered wise to draw the atten- 

 tion of the contractor to the effect of the bill of quantities. 

 Thus a clause is occasionally inserted in the contract to the 

 effect that the quantities stated are not guaranteed either by 

 the engineer or the employer, and are only supplied as an aid 

 whereby to enable the contractor to check his own measure- 

 ments. The contractor should be made to understand that if 

 he adopts the quantities or any of them in forming his tender, 

 it will be at his own risk, as no allowance can be made on 

 account of any omissions or errors which may subsequently be 

 found in the quantities. 



8. Rectification of bills of quantities. By far the fairest 

 method of dealing with the quantities is to insert a special 

 clause providing that if any errors shall be discovered therein, 

 the same shall be rectified, and that an addition to or deduction 

 from the amount payable to the builders under the contract 

 shall be made accordingly. It should, however, be provided 

 that such errors shall be notified to the architect or engineer 

 within a prescribed limit of time. (Compare the powers con- 

 ferred upon an engineer to vary or omit work ; see Form II A., 

 01. 20, post.) 



9. Who is to pay the quantity-surveyor. A properly drawn 

 contract usually provides for payment of the fees of the quan- 

 tity-surveyor. Thus the form sanctioned by the Royal Institute 

 of British Architects provides for the payment of these fees 

 by the contractor out of and immediately after receiving the 

 amount of the certificate or certificates in which they shall 

 be included. It is, apparently, the duty of the architect to 

 decide whether anything for the quantity- survey or is to be 

 included in the first certificate. (See per Field, J,, Young v. 

 Smith, 1879, 2 H. B. 0. p. 61.) 



In Birdseye v. Dover Harbour Board, 1881, 1 H. B. 0. 62, a 

 custom was successfully relied on to the effect that an architect 

 employed by a building-owner may call in a quantity-surveyor 

 at the employer's expense. In North v. Bassett, 1892, 1 Q. B. 

 333, the plaintiff, a quantity-surveyor, was employed by an 



