Imperial Valley press., 1923-10-12

DaLed TINS llth day OF OCTOBER,
1923.
J. s. LOOFBOUROW,
City Clerk of the City of Ell Centre,
California. 1912
(SEAL)
NOTICE INVITING SEALED PRO
POSALS FOR STREET WORK
OR IMPROVEMENT.
Pursuant to statute and to Reso-
luton of the Board of Trustees of
the City of Ell Centre directing this
notice, the undersigned, City Clerk
of the City of Ell Centre, invites
and will receive at his office in the
City Hall of said City up to 1880
clock p. IN. on the oath day of Oc-
tober, 1923, sealed proposals or
bids for the hereinafter mentioned
street work or improvement to be
done in accordance with the follow
ing specifications for said work or
Improvement, on file in the office
of said City Clerk, and this day
posted near the council chamber
door of said Board of Trustees,
namely, specifications numbered 27
for laying asphaltic concrete pave
ment, specifications numbered 81
for the construction of cement curbs.
specifications numbered % for lay
ing water mains and water service
lines and specifications numbered
| % for the construction of electric
lighting system, to-wit:
SECTION /. The Street work or
improvement ON that certain por
tion of Holt Avenue and of He'll
Avenue, Hamilton Avenue, Vine
Street, Wensley Avenue and Sew
| enth Street, described in Resolution
| Of Intention numbered 262 passed
| and adopted by said Board of Trus-
tees on the 10th day of September,
| 1923, which Resolution of Intention
is hereby referred to for des
cription of said work or improve
ment.
SECTION II. That the said con-
templated work or Improvement in
the opinion of said Board of Trus-
tees of said City is of more than To-
cal or ordinary public benefit and
in and by said. Resolution Of Inten-
ton said work or Improvement was
| declared to be Of more than local
or ordinary public benefit and said
| Board Of Trustees in said Resolu-
ton made the expense of said work
or Improvement chargeable upon a
district declared in said Resolution
to be the district benefited by said
work or improvement and to be as
sessed to pay the cost and expense
thereof, which district is described
in said Resolution of Intention in
general terms and is shown by a
plat on file in the office of the
City Engineer of said City, ap
proved by said Board of Trustees
which said plat indicates by %
boundary line shown thereon the
extent of the territory to be includ
ed in said assessment district and
which plat governs for all details
as to the extent of said assessment
district and to which Resolution OF
! Intention and Plat reference is here.
by made for complete description
of said assessment district.
! SECTION III. The City Engin
eer is directed to make q diagram
! OF the property affected or bene
fitted by the proposed work or i'm.
provement and to be assessed to pay
the expenses thereof. Such diagram
shall show each separate lot, piece
or parcel of land, the area in square
feet of each of said lots, pieces OF
parcels of land and the relative 10.
cation of the same to the work pro
posed to be done, all within the
limits of the assessment district.
| SECTION ". The Board OF
Trustees determines that serial
bonds shall be issued to be secured
by the assessments which shall here.
after be made to pay the cost of
said work or improvement, and no,
tice is hereby given that serial
bonds to represent unpaid assess
ments and to bear interest at eae
rate OF seven per cent per anhum
VIII be issued hereunder in the
manner provided in the Improve
ment Bond Act of 1915, the last in.
stallment of which bonds shall ma.
ture' fourteen years from the second
day of July next succeeding ten
months from their date.
SECTION v. All proposals O,
bids shall be accompanied by q
check payable to the City of EI
4 Centro, certified by responsible
bank for an amount which shall moi
be less than ten per cent (10%l of
the aggregate of the proposal, or by
bond for said amount and Sc
payable signed by the bidder and
two sureties who shall Justify be,
fore any officer competent to adj,
minister an oath in double the said
amount and over and above all sta,
tutory exemptions.
Reference is hereby made to the
II. Mueller Manufacturing Com.
pany License Agreement in refer,
ence to the patented brass water
pipe fittings known as 'sMueller
Fittings dated August "a, 1923
ON file in the office of the CITY
Clerk of said City; also to the
Marbelite License Agreement of the
/ Marbelite Corporation of America
in reference to the patented "Mar,
belite' lamp posts, dated Septem.
Der IL, 1928, on file in the office
of the City Clerk of said City.
Dated this llth day of October