The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-02-13
POLICE JURY.
Contract Let For Nor,nas Srous-
sard Bridge-Bridges Repaired.
Suit To BE Instituted hgGinS, Road
Tax Del nqueats-Duty OF Road
Oyerseers--Road Tax d !iHQuent
ABR. 1. Report of Treasurer
and B:Ii Ap0royeds.
Lafayette, La. Feb. :, 1897.

berS were present: NJ. billeduu. Ji.'
presiding: l.. 6. BreauX. Alfred n.
Delhomme, Cornelius spell, Albert
Theal. p. Il. Landry. j. Edmond
Mouton and Valery BouGreauX. Abb
sent. j. II. Connolly.
The minutes of the regular meeting
held January Bro, and OF the special
meetings held January 11th and 9th,
were read and approved.
J.. II. Connolly now present. The
plan. for the construction of the
Darmas Bro ; ) I'd bridge,
was again looked over
the Jury ordered the following change
Oh said plan, where creosoted lum-
Der or piles are SD ciii d SAM must
be treated with l. pounds lead oil of
coal tar per cubic foot. Sway braces
for piers and cuts 3xS backing to be
creOsoted.
Whereupon it was understood and
agreed that bids TO. tne construction
of said bridge at the Darmas Brous-
sard crossing over Bayou Vermilion
would be opened at 3 p. NJ. and that
the Jury would receive sealed bids as
against the suggestions of the re-
representatives. OF bridge companies
present. to sell the contract at public
auction to the lowest bidder.
Adjourned till l p. N. for dinner.
The following bids for the proposed
bridge at Darmas Broussard crossing
were submitted: Bedell Structural
Steel & Foundry Co., of New Oceans,
La. for 81, 1000. The Leversedge
Bridge Company of Forth Worth,
Texas, for 81 ,470.0 90. a.. NJ. Blodgett
Kansas City. Mo-, for s4,sOO.OO.
I,,l. - W.
cennes. Ind. for S4.53l.00. New Or
leans Steel Bridge & Construction
Company of New orleans, Louisiana.
for $4.S50.0 0 The O5tumwa Bridge
Company of Ot:umwa, Ia, through
Houston. Tex, for II, 400. 90.
The bid of the Ottumwa Bridge
Company being the lowest and within
the limits of the amount the Jury eX
pectad the cost of erecting said bridge
would be the following resolution WAS
adopted, and it being understood is
to form part of thc contract.
Be it resolved by the Police Jury
of the Parish of Lafayette in regular
session assembled hat the bid of
the Ottumwa Bridge Company for the
sum of forty-four hundred dollars to
furnish Ill materials al ,bor..to con-
soruct a bridge across Bayou Vermil-
ion at the Darmas BrOussird cross
ing be and is hereby acc, ted under
the express condition thu the on
tractors shall construct the proposed
bridge in a good, substantial and
complete manner, without extra
charge even if the specification under
which the bid was made and the
bridge to be constructed should prove
incomplete or defective: and further
that the Police Jury of the Parish of
Lafayette shall have the right to with
hold any and all deferred payments
until the contractor comply with this
condition, it being the purpose of the
Police Jury and of the contractor TO
construct and complete said bridge
whether specified in detail in said
specifications Or not.
Be 1t further resolved, ETC.. that the
payments OF the said contract shall be
made as follows: One thousand dol.
lars upon the completion and accept
ance OF said bridge by the Police
Jury, and the balance IN equal INSTALL
ments OF eleven hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty-three and
One-third cents on the. ..........da
nineteen hundred and
eight, nineteen hundred and nine.
nineteen hundred and ten, with five
per cent. per annum interest from
date OF the acceptance of the bridge
as aforesaid.
be it further resolved that the sum
OF one thousand dollars be and is
hereby appropriated out of the five
thousand dollar bridge fund of the
budget of the year nineteen hundred
n seven, to be collected out of the
taxes OF the year nineteen hundred
n seven, and the sum of eleven
hundred and thirty three dollars and
thirty-three and one-third cents out of
the surplus revenue over statutory
necessary n usual charges of the
year nineteen hundred and eight, the
sum OF eleven hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty-three and one
third cents out of the surplus reve-
e over statutory necessary and
usual charges of the year nine
teen hundred and nine, and the sum
OF clever hundred and thirty-three
dollars and thirty-three and One-third
cents out OF the surplus revenues over
statutory necessary and usual charges
OF the year nineteen hundred and ten.
be 1T further resolved that the con
tractors shall furnish a surety com.
pany bond to the amount of fifty per
cent OF the amour for which the
contract is awarded in favor of the
Police Jury to secure the faithful
performance of said contract.
Be it further resolved that a com.
mittee composed of j. Edmond
Mouton. =. G. Breaux, and M. Bill
leaud, Jr., be and is hereby appointed
as authority to sign the contract ir
question for the Police Jury.
Mr.. Connolly reported having made
the exchange of road in his ward a.
authorized mr ~sOIfHi of The bod,