The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-13
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sewer Construction and Street PAVING.
Poplar Street.

Public notice is hereby given that
until ten G0) O'clock, a. m. Of Monday
April GOTH 1908, at the city council
chamber OF the City of Cairo. Iii
nois, No. iii Commercial Avenue. IN
The said city. the Board OF Local I'm
provements or the said City Of Cairo
will receive sealed itemized bids on
proposals for the construction of a
vitrifiod tile pipe sewer IN Poplar
Street, In the said city from Invent
18th Street to Thirty-Fourth Street.
and of a yitrified brick pavement,
with a combined concrete curb and
gutter, on tho 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 Is 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
iii 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. (i0) per
centum of the amount OF the bid or
and without such cash or
check, no bid or proposal win be con
sldered. The bills sllali be delivered
to the Board at the tiale and place
fist above mentioned; and at said
time and place above mentioned the
aid Board, in open session, will open,
-xamine and publicly declare said
bids or proposals.
The contractor whose bid shall be
shall enter into a contract
With the said City OF Cairo for the
of the said improvement
n strict accordance with the terms
md requirements of the said ordi
lance, and shall also erter into bond
payable to the said City OF Cairo iHi
he sum of fifty (50) per eentum OF
he amount of his bid. with security
q be approved by the said Board, con
litioned for the faithful performance.
n all respects. of his said contract
md for holding the said city harmless |
tic. and he shall also bind himself |
n his said contract and bond, to |
guarantee his said work for the period |
# two (2) years from and after the
CT the same by the said |
Board and it's confirmation by the
curt
The contractor to whom the CON
ract is awarded and who shall do thei
work. will be paid in bonds of the
aid City of Cairo bearing interest at
he rate of five 90 per cent per an
lum from their respective dates |
blanks for bids or proposals will be
on application to the said
'ity Engineer at his office aforesaid |
The BOARD reserves the right to re-
Get any and all bids.
GEORGE PARSONS.
President of the Board of Local I'm
provements of the City of Cairo. |
Illinois.
Attest: ERNEST WORKMAN,