The Cairo bulletin., 1909-01-14
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 ltemized
sealed bids or proposals for the con.
lstruction of yitrihed tile pipe sewers,
house connections and inlets and
brick manhoies in Thirty-Fourth and
West Thirty Fourth Streets, Thirty
Fifth and West Thirty-Fifth Streets,
IThirtySiXth and West ThirtySiXth
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
viies for and establishes a sewer dis.
trict named and called therein the
Thirtyfourth 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 III accord,
auce 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 a whole and in all its
parts Is fully described in the said
ordinance and bids must be for the
construction 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 check pay |
able to the order of the President Of |
the said Board, in his official capacity, |
and certified by 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 said
time and place the said Board, in open
session, will open examine and pub
licly declare the said bids or pro
posals.
The contractor whose bid may be |
shall enter into a contract |
with the said City of Cairo for the |
of The said Improvement |
in strict accordance with the terms |
and requirements Of the said ordi-
nance and shall also enter into bond
payable TO the said City of Cairo in
he sum of fifty per centum Of the
mount of his bid, with security to be
approved by the said Board. condi-
toned for the faithful performance, in
til respects, of his said contract and
or holding the city harmless, etc;
md he shall bind himself, in his said
contract 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-
by the court Il
The contractor to whom the con.
ract for the construction of the i'm
royement is awarded and who shall
10 the work will be paid in bonds
# the city bearing interest at the rae
# five per centum from their respec-
i've dates. Blanks for bids or pTopos
Is will be furnished on application to
he said City Engineer at his office Il
.foresaid The Board reserves the
light TO reject any and all bids {
GEORGE PARSONS,
PRESIDENT of the Board of Local I'm
provements of the City of Cairo, HI
nois.
.ttest: ERNEST WORKMAN,
Secretary. |