The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-31

City Council shall, by resolution, gran
an extension of time for completion O.
said work.
INSPECTORS.
5. The city engineer and improvement
committee shall appoint such number
of inspectors as they may deem best
who shall be on the work at all times
and report to the engineer; but such in.
spectors shall have no power to ap.
prove material or work, or 70 order ad
ditional work.
WORK PROSECUTED Az CERTAIN
POINTS,
6. The work shall be done az such
points as the improvement committee
and city engineer may designate, and
not more than two adjoining squares
in length shall be torn up at one time;
nor shall any square be blocked ex
cept where the contractor is actually
working: and each square, so soon as
the pavement is laid, shall be thrown
open to public use; but such opening
and using of the street shall not be
deemed or held to be an acceHtance
any part Of the work
SUSPENSION.
Should the Improvements committee
and engineer see fit, in view Of contin-
uing traffic on the street upon which
the work is being prosecuted they
may require the contractor to finish one
side of the street at a time. The said
Improvement committee and city en-
gineer, from time to time may suspend
the work at certain places, or alto
gether, if, in their opinion, public needs
require it; but said improvement COM
mttee and city engineer shall not have
the right to stop the work altogether
for more than one week at any one
time, except that, whenever in the
opinion of the said committee and city
engineer, the weather is not suitable for
doing the work, it may cause the work
to be suspended. In case Of any sus-
pension. caused by order of said en-
gineer or said committee, the time
within which the contractor is required
to complete the work shall be extended
by as many days as the same was thus
suspended.
MATERIAL PILED SNUGLY upon
SUSPENSION OF WORK.
T. Upon any stoppage of the work all
is to be piled up snugly, so as
not to impede the travel on the side
walk or carriage way, or use of fire
plugs, and all rubbish or surplus ma
terial to be removed Immediately there
after from the street or avenue by the
contractor.
CITY MAY CONSTRUCT OR ALLOW
TO BE CONSTRUCTED ETC.
8. The right to construct any sewer
or sewers, lay or relay street railway
tracks, or electrical conduits, or to lay
any water or gas mains, or receiving
basins and culverts, or build up or ad-
just any manhole, or to reset or renew
any frames and heads for sewer man
holds, or for supply water or gas stop
cocks, in any street, and to grant per-
nits for house connections with sewers,
or with water or gas pipes, at any time
prior to the completion of the road COW
ering, over the line of the same, is ex
pressly reserved by the said improve
nent committee and city engineer, and
the said Improvement committee an
city engineer reserves the right of
the work on any part of
said line of street at any time during
The construction of same, for the pur |
poses above stated; and said contractor
shall not interfere with, or place any
in the way of, any person |
or pei sons who may be engaged in the |
of such sewer or sewers, !
aging or relaying street railway tracks |
Or electrical conduits, or in laying of |
such water or gas mains, or in making
Herewith, or doing other
work above specified, or in the con-
'truction of any receiving basins and
.urbs on the line of the street In any
such case the contractor shall not be
entitled to any damages, either for the
iigging up of the street or for the de-
ay; but he shall be allowed, and be
paid for any work or material made
necessary on his part, such reasonable
um (not to exceed contract rates) az
nay be agreed upon between him and
he said Improvement committee and
'ity engineer, and the time for complet-i
ng his contract shall be extended by
IS many days as he was thus delayed
f. in the opinion of the improvement
Committee and city engineer it is neces-
airy for public convenience, the street
ailway shall be granted permission to
ay temporary track on one side of
he street while the track is being prop
rly relaid.
DEFECTIVE WORK TO BE RE-
PLACED.
.. Any work which does not, in the
pinior of the improvement committee
nd city engineer, fully comply with
hese specifications shall be taken upI
nd replaced according to their direc-
ions and at the expense of the con-
ractor.
YORK MAY BE INCREASED OR d.
MINISHED.
10. The Improvement committee and
lty engineer may, when, in their opin-
IN, it becomes necessary, make alter
tions or modifica tons Of the specifica-
ons or plans of this contract, or may
NIT from the work covered by this
ontract any portion of the street or
originally ordered to be i'm
roved, the price to be paid for the
'ork under such orders or modified
ontract to be agreed upon in writing
nd signed by said party of the second
art and some person authorized by
he council on behalf of the City of
hreveport.