The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-20
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sewers: Thirty-Fourth Street Sewer
District

Public notice Is hereby given that
January 20, A. d. 1909, at the City
Council Chamber of the City of Cairo,
Illinois. No. I'LL Commercial Avenue,
the Board of Local improvements of
the City of Cairo will receive itemized
sealed bids or proposals for the con.
struction of vitrified tile pipe sewers,
house connections and inlets and
brick manholes in Thirty-Fourth and
West Thirty-Fourth Streets, Thirty
Fifth and West Thirty-Fifth Streets
Thirty Sixth and West Thirty-SlXth
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 sewer dis
trct named and called therein the
Thirty-fourth Street Sewer District,
the boundaries whereof are given in
the said ordinance
.
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
the specifications of and for
the said work will be found and may
be there examined. The said local
as a 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 check pay.
able TO the order of the President Of
the said Board, in his official cabacity,
and certified by a responsible bank
for an amount equal to ten per centum
If the amount OF the bid or proposal |
and without such cash or check no |
Did 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
'ouncil chamber, No. iii CONNER
ial Avenue aforesaid and at the said
inc and place the said Board, In open
ession, will open, examine and pub
icly declare the said bids or pro-
osals.
The contractor whose bid may be
ccepted shall enter into a contract
With the said City of Cairo for the
obstruction of the said Improvement
n strict accordance with the terms
nd requirements of the said ordi.
ance 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
pproved 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.
rovement is awarded and who shall
o the work viii be paid in bonds
( the city bearing interest at the rate
{ FIVE per centum from their respec.
I've dates. Blanks for bids or propos
Is will be furnished on application TO
he said City Engineer at his Office
foresaid. The Board reserves the
light to reject any aud all bids.
GEORGE PARSONS.
resident of the Board OF Local I'm
provements of the City Of Cairo. Hi
nois.
test: ERNEST WORKMAN.
Secretary.