The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-09
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sewers. Thrty-Fourth Street Sewer
District

District.
Public notice is hereby given that
until ten o'clock a. m. Wednesday,
January 90, A, d. 1909, at the City
| Council Chamber OF the City of Cairo
! Illinois, No. iii Commercial Avenue
the Board of Local improvements Of
| the City Of Cairo will receive itemizel
sealed bids or proposals for the con
struction Of yitrified tile pipe sewers,
| house connections and inlets and
! West Thirty Fourth Streets, Thirty.
Fifth and West Thirty.Fifth Streets
| ThirtySiXth and West Thirty-SiXth
| Streets, Sycamore Street, Elm Street,
Washington Avenue and Highland
Avenue, in the City OF Cairo, under
Ordinance No. 10, approved Septem.
Der 2. 1908, which said ordinance pro.
yides for and establishes sewer dis.
Thirty-fourth Street Sewer District,
the boundaries whereof are given in
the said ordinance.
The said sewers, house connections
and inlets and brick manholes are TO
be constructed and made In accord
ance with the terms and provisions
OF the said ordinance, now of record
In the office of the City Clerk of the
said City, at No iii Commercial
Avenue aforesaid. where printed cop.
les of the said ordinance may be OBJ
tanned on application to the said
Clerk; and in the office of the City
Engineer of the said City. in the said
building the specifications Of and for
the said work will be found and may
be there examined. The said local |
Improvement as whole and in all its |
parts is fully described in the SAID |
ordinance and bids must be for the |
of the Improvement as a |
whole and in strict conformity to its |
terms and provisions
All bids or proposals must be ac.
companied by cash or by a check pay
able to the order Of he President Of |
the said Board in his official capacity. |
and certified by a responsible bank |
for an amount equal TO ten per centum
of the amount of the bid or proposal |
and without such cash or check no |
bid or proposal will be considered |
The bids may be delivered to the |
Board at the time and place first |
above mentioned at the said City |
Council chamber, No I'LL CONNER
cial Avenue aforesaid; and at the sad |
time and place the said Board, in oren
session. will Open examine and pub
Iicly declare the said bids or pro.
Dosals.
The contractor whose bid may be
accepted shall enter into contract
With the said City OF Cairo for the
construction of the said Improvement
n strict accordance with the terms
md requirements of the said ordi-
lance and shall also enter into a bond
'ayable to the said City of Cairo in
he sum of fifty per centum of the
mount of his bid, with security to be
pproyed by the said Board. condi-
Toned for the faithful performance, in
II respects, of his said contract and
or holding the city harmless, etc;
nd he shall bind himself, in his said
ontract and bond to guarantee his
aid work for the period of two years
rom and after the acceptance of the
anne by the said Board and its con.
rmation by the court.
The contractor to whom the con
ract for the construction Of the i'm.
royement is awarded and who shall
o the work will be paid In bonds
I the city bearing interest at the rate
five per centum from their respec. =
We dates. Blanks for bids or propos
Is will be furnished on application to 9
ne said City Engineer al his office
foresaid. The Board reserves the O.
ght TO reject any and all bids.
GEORGE PARSONS, 4,
resident Of the Board OF Local I'm
provoments of the City of Cairo. I'LL
nois.
ttcst: ERNEST WORKMAN.
Secretary 10