Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-05-29
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.
CUMBERLAND ROAD IN ILL


PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given. that
sealed proposals will be received, at Liv-
ingston, on the 18th, 9Th and 18th days
of June next, for completing the grading of
the 9TH mile of the Cumberland road in
Illinois, and for completing the masonry
and the supersructures of the bridges on
the 9th, Sth, 18th, 18th and 18th miles of
the said read.
Proposals will, in like manner, be re-
ceived on the Goth and 2lst days of June
ueXt, al the town Of Greenup, for complet-
ing the masonry and superstructure of the
bridges on the a3d, 26th, Both, 3lst, 33d
and 35lh miles of said road.
On the esd, oath and 25th days of june
next, proposals will, in like manner, be
received at Ewington, for completing the
grading of the 5Sth and 62d miles, and for
completing the masonry Of the bridges on
5lst, SD, 53d, 6lst, 93d, 64th, 65th, Goth,
81, 6Sth and 10th miles of the said road.
And on the 9th and 2Sth days of the
same month, proposals will, in like mans
ner, be re eived at the office of the super
intendent in Vandali, for the masonry and
superstructure of a bridge on the S5th
mile.
All of the above works have, heretofore,
been put under contract, and have been
surrendered, abandoned or suspended:
Plans, estimates and illustrations, will be
fully exhibited, and every necessary infor-
nation afforded as to the nature and ex-
tent of each particular work by the super
intendent or his assistants, TO those who
may desire to offer proposals. Testimoni-
ais of capacity and moral fitness will be
required of all persons offering proposals,
unless they be personally and satistactori-
| Iy known to the superintendent. st
Payments will be made monthly to the
undertakers, of three-fourths of the esti-
mated amount of work done at the time,
and no other security than retention
of one fourth of the amount of the work
done, will be required. AT the COM
pletion and acceptance of the work un-
der,aken, payment in full will be immedi-
ately made When two or more persons
undertake jointly, copy OF their articles
of association must be adduced and filed
with the superintendent, in which it must
be stipulated, that any receipt given by
them, separately or jointly, for payments
made by the superintendent, shall he good
and valid against the firm No contract
is to be assigned or transferred under any
pretence whatever; and the undertaken
will be required personally, to superintend
the works undertaken, and to prosecute
them with all convenient speed until COM
pleted, with sufficient number of assist
ants and laborers
Each proposal for constructing masonry,
where additional materials of stone shall
be necessary, must be accompanied by
written description of the place where it is
intended to procure the materials, and the
distance from the place where it is to be
used and fair specimen Of the material
must be exhibited to the superintendent;
and in case the proposer should become the
undertaken of the work, it will be stipulatl
ed in the contract that no material of an
inferior quality will be accepted in the con-
struction of the work. No new material
Of sandstone will be accepted in any part
Of the masonry experience has fully shown
its liability to disintegrate, in bridge ma
sonry, when exposed to the action of the
winter frosts The masonry will be re-
quired to be executed in the most substan-
tial, neat and workmanlike manner, well
laid, and hammer-dressed. according to the
plans and Illustrations which will be eX-
hibited
| No proposal will be received at either of
the above named places after 4 o'clock, P.
NJ. of the last day mentioned. The super
lntendent, on application, will furnish
printed forms for proposals, to those who
attend and are DESTROYS of Offering them,
for any part of the work above designated.
1t is also intended to receive proposals at
the same times and places above designat-
ed for such other work as shall be found,
at the time, not to be in progress, and which
has been heretofore put under contract,
and remains unfinished.
WILLIAM G. GREENUP,
Sap. Cum. Road in Illinois.
Vandala, May 9th, 1884. 40