Under AS 2124-1992 General Conditions, a principal cannot unilaterally deduct liquidated damages from the amount certified by the superintendent for payment to the contractor. The mechanism for deducting liquidated damages is through the superintendent's certification process under cl. 42.1, and no term will be implied to permit the principal to bypass that process. A contractor's express right to payments certified by the superintendent should not be qualified by discovering hidden meanings extricated from half-expressed reservations in other parts of the document.
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