The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-10
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sewers: Thirty.Fourth Street Sewer
District

District.
Public notice Is hereby given that
until ten o'clock a. m. Wednesday.
January 20, 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 vitrifed tile pipe sewers,
house connections and inlets and
brick manholes in Thirty.Fourth ard
West ThirtyFourth Streets, Thirty.
Fifth and West Thirty-Fifth Streets,
Thirty-SiXth and West Thirty Sixth
Streets, Sycamore Street, Elm Street
Washington Avenue and Highland
Avenue, in the City of Cairo. under
Ordinance No. 40, approved Septem
Der 2. 1908, which said ordinance pro
yides for and establishes sewer dis
trict named and called therein the
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. I'LL Commercial |
Avenue aforesaid, where printed cop |
les of the said ordinance may he oh |
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
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
by cash or by a check pay. I
able to the order of the President Of
he 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
Did or proposal win 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. iii CONNER
'ial Avenue aforesaid; and at the said
ime and place the said Board. in open \
session, will open, examine and pub
icly declare the said bids or pro
,osals.
The contractor whose bid may be ,
accepted shall enter into 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
ance and shall also enter into a bonI r
ayabe to the said City of Cairo in
he sum of fifty per centum of the :,
mount of his bid, with security to be y
pprOved by the said Board. cOndi-
oned for the faithful performance in G
II respects of his said contract and
n holding the city harmless, etc.
al he shall bind himself, in his said M
Jntract and bond, to guarantee h $ NJ
nd work for the period Of two years Ill
ON and after the acceptance of the NJ
me by the said Board and its CON
nation by the court
The contractor TO whom the con.
act for the construction of the i'm.
oyement is awarded and who shall
, the work will be paid in bonds
the city bearing interest at the IA go
five per centum from their rcspea -
re dates Blanks Tor bids or prOpos
S will be furnished on application to III
e said City Engineer at his Office "
oresaid. The Board reserves the
ght to reject any and all bids
GEORGE PARSONS.
esldent of the Board OF Local I'M
provements of the City of Cairo, Iii. III
nois.
test: ERNEST WORKMAN, ID
Secretary. ."