The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-01-08
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sewers: Thirty-Fourth Street Sewer
District

| Dlstrict
Public notice Is hereby given tha
until ten O'Clock a. m, Wednesday
J&nuary 90 A, d, 1903, ut the Ci'A
Council Chamber of the City of Cairo
Illinois. No. MI Commercial Avenue
the Board of Local improvements OF
| the City of Cairo will receive itemizeJ
sealed bids or proposals for the con
| stmction of viirlfied tile pipe sewers
| house connections and inlets and
brick manholes in Thirty-Fourth ard
| West Thirty Fourth Streets, I'll Tty
Fifth and West Thirty Fifth Streets
Thirty-SiXth and West Thirty-SiXth
Streets, Sycamore Street, Elm Street,
Washington Avenue aud Highland
Avenue, in the City OF Cairo, under
Ordinance No. 40. approved Septem.
Der ?, 1908, which said ordinance pro
vides for and establishes a sewer dis.
trlct 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 aud brick manholes are 10
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. Ill 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 |
he said work will be found and may
be there examined The said local |
rs a whole and in all its
parts is fully described in the said |
ordinance and bids must be for the
construction of tho improvement as q
yhole and in strict conformity to It's
erms and provisions.
All bids or proposals must be ac-
by cash or by a check pay
bile to the order of the President Of
he said Board. in his official capacity.
nd certified by responsible bank
or an amount equal to ten per centum
f the amount Of the bid or proposal
nd without such cash or check no
i'd or proposal will be considered.
he bids may be delivered to the
'oard at the time and place first
bove mentioned at the said city
ouncl chamber, No III CONNER
ial Avenue aforesaid; and at the said
me and place the said Board, in open
assion, will open. examine and pub.
ely declare the said bids or pro
osas.
The contractor whose bid may be
rcepted shall enter into Q. contract
it'll the said City of Cairo for the
Of the said Improvement
strict accordance with the terms
nd requirements OF the said ordi-
ince and shall also enter into a bon
iyable 10 the said City of Cairo in I
Ie sum of fifty per centum of the :
Mount of his bid, with security to be U
proved by the said Board, condi- U
1ncd for the faithful performance, in
! respects of his said contract AMI
+ holding the city harmless, etc;
ID he shall bind himself, in his said
ntract and bond, to guarantee his [
id work for the period of two years
ON and after the acceptance e the
me by the said Board and its con r.
nation by the court y
The contractor 10 whom the con.
act for the construction of the i'm
ovement is awarded and who shall! -
the work will be paid in bond n
the city bearing interest at the ratc /
five per centum from their respee- y
re dates Blanks for bids or propos l
! viii be furnished on application to
e said City Engineer at his office
Dresaid. The Board reserves the III
yht TO reject any and all bids Oh
GEORGE PARSONS. G;
esident Of the Board of Local I'm
OF the City OF Cairo, I'LL +.
lol' a
test: ERNEST WORKMAN, III
Secretary |