The Cairo bulletin., 1908-05-10
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
SEWERS AND FILLING.


West Twenty-Eighths Streets, and
Part of Walnut Street. in the Cit,
of Cairo, Illinois.
Z Public notice is hereby given tina
until ten tl0) O'Clock a. m, Thursday
May 81, 1908, at the city council
chamber of the City of Cairo, Illinois
mo iii Commercial avenue, thu
Board of Local improvements OF thu
City of Cairo will receive sealed item
Lied bids or proposals for the con
tstruction Of vitriiied tile pipe sewers
lhOuse connections and inlets an,
brick manholes in Twenty-Second am
West TwentySecond Streets. Twenty
Third and West Twenty-Third Streets
West Twenty-Fourth Street, Twenty
Fifth and West TwentyFifth Streets
Twenty and West Twenty
Streets. Twenty-Seventh and West
Twenty-Seventh Streets, Charles
Street and a part OF Walnut Street,
in the said City of Cairo, and for fill
ing with earth of the unified portions
of the said streets.
The said sewers house connections,
inlets and brick manholes and the
said filing must be constructed, mad
and done in accordance with the
terms and provisions of Ordinance
No 127, approved May IS, 1907, now
of record in the Office of the City
Clerk If said City. No. iii 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 speeiIl
cations OF and for the said work viii
be found and may be there examined
The said local improvement as a
whole and in all its parts is fully de-
scribed in the said ordinance, and the
bids must be for the construction OF
the Improvement in strict conformity
with its terms and provisions. Bids
will be received for the making of
the improvement as a whole and al.
so for the construction of the sewer
work without the filling and for the
filling without the sewer work and
also for the sewer work and filling on
he different streets separately.
All bids or proposals must be ac1
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 O0D per
centum of the amount of the bid or
and without such cash or
check, no bid or proposal will be con
iidered 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
Of the said Improvement,
nr 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-
ter into a bond payable to the said
eity in the sum Cf fifty (50) per
centum of the amount of his bid
with security to be approved by the
said Board conditioned for the faith
full performance, in all respects. of his
said contract and for holding the city
harmless. etc: and he shall bind him
self, in his said contract and bond, to
guarantee the sewer construction work
for the period of two (2) 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 for the construction of the i'm.
proyement. or any part thereof. IS
awarded and who shall do the work,
will be paid in bonds of the city bear
ing interest at the rate of five 90
per centum per annum from their re-
spective dates. Blanks for bids or
proposals will be furnished on appli-
cation to the said City Engineer at his
office aforesaid.
The Board reserves the right 10
reject any and all bids.
Dated this 9TH day Of MAY 1908 .
GEORGE PARSONS. g.
President Board of Local Improve,
ments Of the City Of Cairo.
Attest: ERNEST WORKMAN,
Secrntarr of the Roari