The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-11
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sewers; Thlrty,Fourth Street Sewer
District


Public notice is hereby given that
until ten o'clock a. m. Wednesday,
January 20, A. u. 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 itemizei
sealed bids or proposals for the con
struction of yitriled tile pipe sewers,
house connections and, inlets and
brick manholes in Thirty-Fourth and
West ThirtyFouWh 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, 1903, which said ordinance pro
vides 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 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 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 sail
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 ae-
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 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 ut the said City
Council chamber, No. iii 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
accepted 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 a bond
payable to the said City of Cairo III
the sum of fifty per centum of the
amount of his bid, with security to be
approved by the said Board, condi-
Toned for the faithful performance, in
al respects. Of his said contract and
or holding the city harmless, etc; |
md he shall bind himself, in his sail |
contract and bond, to guarantee his
said work for the period of two years |
rom and after the acceptance of the |
,ame by the said Board and its con
by the conrt,
The contractor to whom the con
ract for the construction OF the i'm
lrovement is awarded and who SHAH |
10 the work will be paid in bonds
# the city bearing interest at the rae |
If five per centum from their respee
i've dates. Blanks for bids or propos
lis will be furnished on application to
he said City Engineer at his office
iforesaid 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.