The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-14
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sewer Construction and Street Paving.
Poplar Street.

Public notice is hereby given that
until ten Q0) O'clock, a. m. of Monday,
April Goth, 1903, at the city council
chamber Of the city of Cairo, III.
Enois, No. I'LL Commercial Avenue. In
the said city, the Board of Local I'm
|proyements OF the said City OF Cairo
will receive Sealed tented bld1 on
proposals for the construction of a
vitrifi,d tile pipe sewer In Poplar
street, In the said city, from Twent.
ieth Street to Thirty-Fourth Street,
and of a vitrified brick pavement,
with a combined concrete curb and
gutter, on the said Poplar Street
from the east line OF Washington Ave.
nue. to the south line OF said Thirty
Fourth Street, together with vitrified
tile pipe house connections. and brick
catch basins and manholes.
Tho above work ls provided for and
fully described In Ordinance No. 14s,
approved September 10Th. 1907, and
the said bids must be for the con
struction of the said improvements in
strict conformity to the terms and pro-
visions OF the said ordinance, which
is now OF record in the office OF the
City Clerk of said City of Cairo, No
I'LL Commercial Avenue, where print
ed copies Of the ordinance may be
obtained on application to said City
Clerk, and in the office Of the City
Engineer of the said City of Cairo, in
the same building, the specifications
of and for the said work will be found
and may be there examined.
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 a responsible bank
for an amount equal to ten C1oI per
centum of the amount of the bid or
proposal, and without such cash or
check, no bid or proposal win be con-
sidered The bids shall be delivered
first above mentioned; and at said
time and place above mentioned the
said Board in open session, will open
examine and publicly declare said
bids or proposals.
The contractor whose bid shall be
accepted shall enter into contract
with the said City OF Cairo for the
OF the said improvement
in strict accordance with the terms
and requirements of the said ordi-
nance, and shall also enter into a bond
payable to the said City of Cairo In
the sum of fifty (5S) per centum Of
the amount of his bid. with security
to be approved by the said Board. con-
ditioned for the faifhfui performance,
in all respects, of his said contract
and for holding the said city harmless.
etc. and he shall also bind himself
in his said contract and bond, to
guarantee his said work for the period
of two (2l years from and after the
acceptance Of the same by the said
Board and its confirmation by the
court.
The contractor to whom the con-
tract is awarded and who shall do the
work. will be paid in bonds of the
said City of Cairo bearing interest at
the rate of five 90 per cent per an
mum from their respective dates.
Blanks for bids or proposals win be
furnished on application to the said
City Engineer at his office aforesaid.
The Board reserves the right to re-
Jet any and all bids.
GEORGE PARSONS,
President of the Board of Local I'm
proYements of the City OF Cairo,
Illinois.
Attest:-ERNEST WORKMAN.
Secretary of Board.
Cairo Illinois ADriI 7fh. A. n. 1903.