Excerpt from Building Safe-Guide
The main objects for publishing this work aim entirely at the protection of all Owners, Agent, Architects, Mechanics, and others who are concerned in the Building Business; also at the interest of all Tax-payers in the country.
The work is divided in three parts.
The objects of Part First are the following:
1. All classes of society, and every individual, should know that rumors prevail, proofs may be given, and it is a fact known by a large portion of the population (if not by all) that frauds and schemes of plunder are or may be perpetrated by men or rings, in all the mechanical branches connected with Buildings; that some architects and agents may receive from mechanics illegitimate commissions either in money or other emoluments; that some architects and mechanics, taking contract for Buildings on their own plans and specifications, may also act most fraudulently.
The Building Business involves such large sums of money, that if the frauds and schemes of plunder which may be perpetrated in buildings, both public and private, are only equal to rumors and allegations, they must be enormous, and most detrimental to the prosperity of the people.
2. To show, according to the most reliable informations, the ways and means which are used, and all parts of the Building where the evil may be carried on, and to prove that such evil must be attributed to the defects of the present system of transacting business.
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