The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-09
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sewer Construction and Street Psvina
Poplar Street.

Public notice ID hereby given thai
until ten (10) o'clock, d. M. of Monday
April Goth, 1908. at the city council
chamber of the City of Cairo. MI
nois, No. I'LL Commercial Avenue, II
the said city, the Board of Local I'm
Iproyements of the said City of Cairo
VIII receive sealed itemized bids on
proposals for the construction of n
| Vttrlli ii tile pipe sewer In POPLAR
street in the said city. from Twent-
| leth Street to ThirtF-Fourth Street
| and of a vitrified brick pavement.
with 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
The 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
structton 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-
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
Tor an amount equal 10 ten n0) per
centum of the amount Of the bid or
proposal, and without such eash or
check. no bid or proposal VIII be con.
5idered. The bids shall be delivered
o the Board at the time and place
trst above mentioned: and at said !
ime and place above mentioned the ]
aid Board, In open session. will open.
Xamine and publicly declare said
lids or proposals.
The contractor whose bid shall bel
ccepted shall enter into contract 4
18th the said City of Cairo for the
obstruction of the said Improvement
a strict accordance with the terms
nd requirements of the said ordf-i 4
ance, and shall also erter into a bond
ayable to the said City of Cairo i'm I
ne sum Of fifty f50l per centnm oil
ne amount of his bid. with security -
be approved by the said Board. con Z
tioned for the faithful performance,
all respects. of HIS said contraetI
nd for holding the said CITY harmless.
C., and he shall also bind himself
his said contract and bond. 70
iarantee his said work for the. period
two t2) years from and after the
'ceptance CT the same by the safdl
oard and its confirmation by the
urt.
The contractor to whom the con.
act is awarded and who shall do the
DIRK. will be paid in bonds of the
Id City of Cairo bearing interest at 81
6 rate of five (5l per cent. per an
I'm from their respective dates
anks for bids or proposals will he
on application to the said n
ty Engineer at his office aforesaid.
The Board reserves the right TO re-
81 any and all bids.
GEORGE PARSONS. n
esident of the Board OF Local I'm
provements of the City of Cairo.
Illinois.
test:-ERNEST WORKMAN,
Secretary of Board.