The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-14
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
SEWERS AND FILLING.
Cross Streets Between Twenty.Eirst
Street and Twenty-Eighth and
West Twenty,Eighth Streets, and
Part of Walnut Street, in the City


West Twenty,Eighth Streets, and
Part of Walnut Street, in the City
Of Cairo, Illinois.
Public notice Is hereby given that
until ten tl0l o'clock a. NJ. Thursday
May 81, 1908, at the city council
chamber of the City of Cairo. Illinois,
mo. iii Commercial avenue, the
Board of Local improvements of the
City of Cairo will receive sealed item
| lied bids or proposals for the con
Istruction of vitrified tile pipe sewers.
house connections and inlets and
brick manholes in TwentySecond and
Nest Twenty Streets, Twenty.
Third and West TwcntyThird Streets
West Twenty.Fourth Street, Twenty
Fifth and West Twenty Fifth Streets
Twenty Sixth and West Twenty-SixthI
Streets, Twenty-Serenth and West
REIMBURSEMENT Streets, Charles
Street and a part OF Walnut Street
in the said City of Cairo. and for fill.
ing with earth of the untitled portions
Of the said streets.
The said sewers, house connections,
inlets aud brick manholes aud the
said filling must be constructed, made
and done in accordance with the
terms and provisions Of Ordinance
No. 1877 approved May Is, 1907, now
pf record In the office of the City
Clerk of said City No. ILL CONNER,
cial avenue, where printed copies of
the ordinance may be obtained on
application to the said Clerk, and in
the office of the City Engineer of the
CITY, in the same building, the specifi
cations Of and for the said work VIII
be found and may be there examined,
The said local Improvement as Al
whole and In all it's parts is fully de-
scribed IN the said ordinance, and the
bids must, be for the construction 81
| the improvement in strict conformity
with it's terms and provisions. Bids
will be received for the making Of
1.-THE Improvement as whole and al
so for the construction of the sewer
work without the filling and for the
filling without the sewer work AMI
also for the sewer work and filling on
the different streets separately.
All bids or proposals must be ac
companied by cash or by check pay
able to the order of the President of
the said Board in his official capacity,
and certified by responsible bank,
for an amount equal to ten tio) per
centum of the amount of the bid or
proposal, and without such cash or
check. no bid or proposal will be con-.
sidered. The bids may be delivered
to the Board at the time and place
first above mentioned and at said
time and place, the said Board, In
open session will open, examine and
publicly declare said bids or pro
posals.
The contractor whose bid may be
accepted shall enter into a contract
with the said City of Cairo for the
construction of the said Improvement,
or for such part thereof as may be-
awarded to him, in strict accordance
| with the terms and requirements of
the said ordinance, and shall also en-
tier into a bond payable to the sail
lefty in the sum Of fifty t00) per
lcentum of the amount of his bid
with security to be approved by the
Esaid Board, conditioned for the faith
Iful performance, in all respects, of his
Isald contract and for holding the city
harmless. etc; and he shall bind him
lself. in his said contract and bond to
lguarantee the sewer construction work
lfor the period of two ~ years from
land after the acceptance of the same
Iby the said Board and its confirmation
iby the court.
| The contractor to whom the con
tract for the construction of the i'm
tproyement, or any part thereof, IS
awarded and who shall do the work,
will be paid I'm bonds of the city bear
| ing interest at the rate of five t5)
ipcr centum per annum from their re-
lspective dates. Blanks for bids or
proposals will he furnished ON anpli.
cation to the said City Engineer at his
ioffiee aforesaid,
The Board reserves the right to
lreiect any and all bids.
Dated this 9Th DAY OF MAY. 1908.
| GEORGE PARSONS
president Board of Local Improve
ments Of the City of Cairo,
Attest: ERNEST NORMAN,
Secretary of the Board