APPENDIX I. STATEMENT AS TO PROFESSIONAL CHARGES OF CORPORATE MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. The Council are of opinion that the nature of professional engineering services renders it difficult to lay down any comprehensive scale of fees to cover the varied conditions under which such services are given. Engineers with larger experience command fees for such work on a higher scale than younger and less experienced Engineers, but it may be expedient that some authoritative statement should be made by the Council as to professional charges, which will afford some recognized measure of the value of certain engineering services. The Council accordingly state that the customary remuneration for ordinary professional engineering services, as distinct from remuneration by salary, for the design and superintendence of the construction of works in the United Kingdom is a commission of 5 per cent. upon their cost, which commission, however, is liable to be varied in accordance with the nature and magnitude of works and the character of the services rendered, as follows: (1) In the case of undertakings where the services rendered by the Engineer are large relatively to the extent and cost of the work, or in the case of undertakings involving a considerable amount of intricate and detail work, the commission of 5 per cent. may be increased. On the other hand, in the case of exceptionally large undertakings, the commission may be reduced by agree ment. (2) The preparation of bills of quantities, payments to Resident Engineers and Inspectors, and also personal travelling expenses, are matters for arrangement depending upon the nature of the work and the circumstances under which it is carried out, and may be included or not included in the Engineer's remuneration, according to the extent and difficulty of the works and the amount of detail work involved in the preparation of the plans, drawings, specifications and bills of quantities, and also the amount of superintendence by the Engineer's staff necessitated by the character of the work. Where the works are designed in sufficient detail to enable a contract for their execution to be made or to enable the Local Government Board to hold an inquiry into the propriety of allowing an Authority to borrow money for the purposes of the works, but where the carrying out of such works is deferred indefinitely or abandoned, the fee for services up to this stage is one-half of the ordinary commission. The Council are advised that plans and specifications prepared by an Engineer belong, as chattels, to the Client, after payment of the agreed fees, but the copyright in all original matter contained in such plans and specifications remains vested in the Engineer. Neither the Client nor any other person is entitled to multiply copies of plans and specifications so far as the original matter therein contained is concerned; and further, if such original matter has an artistic character or design" the plans can only be used for the purpose of the particular structure for which they were prepared by the Engineer, or for such other purpose as he may authorize. Original matter in specifications is defined by Counsel to be a composition or arrangement of the author-something which has grown up in his mind and would, if applied to patent rights, be called invention. 66 Charges for reports on engineering proposals must necessarily be largely dependent upon the extent of the inquiry and research upon which the reports are based and upon the professional standing of the Engineer employed, and cannot therefore be dealt with in any scale of fees. Remuneration for services in preparing for and giving evidence before Parliamentary Committees or other tribunals generally consists of a preliminary fee and a charge per diem while engaged upon the preparatory work and during the hearing of the inquiry, as well as all out-of-pocket expenses. APPEN BALANCE SHEET TO INSTITUTION CAPITAL ACCOUNT AND BUILDING FUND, as detailed on page 305 LOAN on security of Institution Buildings. £29,303 11 ENGINEERING STANDARDS COMMITTEE Amount held in trust on their Account, as shown on INSTITUTION REVENUE IN SUSPENSE Proportion of 1915 Subscriptions applic able to the nine months from 1st April Subscriptions received in advance 11,626 10 0 219 2 5 12 1 6 11,638 11 6 £415,830 12 2 AUDITORS' We have audited the above Balance Sheet dated 31st March, 1915, and have such Balance Sheet is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct information and the explanations given to us, and as shown by the books of London, 27 April, 1915. DIX II. 31ST MARCH, 1915. £ 8. d. 352,072 7 2. By EXPENDITURE ON INSTITUTION BUILDINGS, INCluding Cost of 18,161 8 11 INSTITUTION INVESTMENTS at cost, as detailed on page 308 NOTE.-The value of these Investments at minimum prices on 31st March, 1915, amounted to £13,655. Investments, as detailed on page 309. .£31,877 9 7 968 3 1 NOTE. No value has been attached, for the purpose of J. H. T. TUDSBERY, Secretary. £415,830 12 2 REPORT. obtained all the information and explanations we have required. In our opinion view of the state of The Institution's affairs according to the best of our The Institution. PERCIVAL D. GRIFFITHS, F.C.A. AUDITORS, |