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If he does, he must be paid proportionably, for the us
risk he must run. No Londoner, I shod. think, would
upon any terms undertake such a Buss. till he
had been at Dublin to look after Sub-contractors
and enquire about their prices: but it is to be —
expected that many Candidates, or so much as a
single Candidate, should be found, especially
of any sort of eminence, that would leave his Buss.
& incur the trouble & expence of such a journey
for the mere chance of what profit may be to be
made upon an expenditure of £8, or 10,000.9. I should
hardly think it: though to be sure the probably
extension of the plan would be an additional
lure. It seems therefore that the plan of taking an
Englishman to contract with for the whole, if at all
feasible, subjects you for a certainty to an encrease of
expence perhaps not less than the utmost you can
have to apprehend from any overcharge that may
be made by an Irish one. This however is reasoning
pretty much in the air. You may be approved apprized of facts
that supersede it.
Neither could the contact made be depended upon
as shutting the Door absolutely against peculation.
In any building undertaking it is rather rare. I believe,
than otherwise, for the Original contract to be adhered
to, without any variation: as the building advances
occasions for makg. additions or alterations present
themselves: as far as these alternats. extend the proprietor,
if no fresh contract is made is then at the mercy of the
Builder: and in the making of such fresh contract
the Builder will be apt to take his advantage in
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