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 exceeding one and one-quarter per cent, up 

 to £5,000, and above that by special ar- 

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 hold property the charge is: On £1,000, one 

 per cent ; thence to £10,000, one-half per 

 cent.; above £10,000, one-quarter per cent, on 

 residue. In valuations for mortgage, if an 

 advance is not made, one-third of the above 

 scale. The minimum fee is three guineas. 



14. For valuing and negotiating the settle- 

 ment of claims under the Lands Clauses Con- 

 solidation Act or other acts for the compulsory 

 acquisition of property, the charge is on Ryde's 

 scale [omitted in this reprint], which is 

 exclusive of attendances on juries or umpires 

 or at arbitrations, and also of expenses and 

 preparation of plans. 



15. For estimating dilapidations and fur- 

 nishing or checking a schedule of same, the 

 charge is five per cent, on the estimate, but in 

 no case less than two guineas. For services in 

 connection with settlement of claim by arbitra- 

 tion or otherwise, extra charges are made, 

 under Clause 8. 



16. For inspecting, reporting and advising 

 on the sanitary condition of premises, the 

 charge must depend on the nature and extent 

 of the services rendered. 



17. In all cases traveling and other out-of- 

 pocket expenses are paid by the client in addi- 

 tion to the fees. If the work is at such a dis- 

 tance as to lead to an exceptional expenditure 

 of time in traveling, an additional charge may 

 be made under Clause 8 



18. When an architect takes out and sup- 

 plies to builders quantities on which to form 

 estimates for executing his designs, he should 

 do so with the concurrence of his client, and it 

 is desirable that the architect should be paid 

 by him rather than by the builder, the cost 

 of such quantities not being included in the 

 commission of five per cent. 



It will be observed that in the American 

 schedule the percentage is designated as a 

 " minimum " charge. In the British schedule 

 we are told that the " usual remuneration " 

 for an architect's services is a commission of 

 five per cent. As a matter of fact five per cent. 

 is the usual charge; an architect who accepts 

 a commission below this figure commits a 

 grievous non-professional act which deprives 

 him of good professional standing, and which 

 should at once disqualify him from member- 

 ship in his national professional organization. 

 How far penalties in such matters are in- 

 flicted is not generally known . 



With such exceptions there is no lessening 

 of the rate below the set five per cent. The 

 architects have fought and fought for this 

 figure for years. The records of the early 

 deliberations of the Institutes are strewn with 

 endless discussions of the necessity for five per 

 cent., and with countless arguments why no 

 lesser sum should be charged. There is not 

 so much discussion on this point now as for- 

 merly, because the moderateness — the compara- 

 tive moderateness — of the charge has been 

 universally recognized. At the present mo- 

 ment there is a lull in the discussion ; but with 

 the cost of living advancing, and with higher 

 charges for everything except street car fares 

 and boot blacking, it can not be long before 

 our architectural minds apply themselves to 

 the noble art of further compensation, and 

 architects' fees go up like everything else. 



On work of comparatively small cost a 

 higher rate of compensation is to be expected 

 and is specificially allowed in the schedule. 

 The American schedule specifically allows an 



