Smyrna times., 1925-05-27
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT GETS
MORE STATE ROAD ESTIMATES
E. RILEY MINER co. LOWEST
ON KENTON-MARYLAND ROAD
Numerous Contractors Submit Bids
for Work All Over the State at
Meeting Last Wednesday

MeeIlng Last Wednesday
Bids were opened at Dover Wednes-
day afternoon by the State Highway
Department for the following con-
tracts, which included all those adj
vertised for with the exception of one
Sussex county road from Ocean View
to Bethany Beach which was cancelled
until the Sussex county bond issue is
settled.
Contract CN22, Mermaid -NIilltown,
1853 miles, Juniata Company, Phila
delphia, $68,O49.5O; Stewart and Don
ohue, Wilmington, $685.
Contract CK25, Kenton-M maryland |
line, Kent county, $50 miles, Conner |
ford Construction Co., Philadelphia,
S212, ,728; William Eisenberg, Camden,
N. j., $2OO,265; Froeming Bros, Inc,
Milwaukee, Wis, S198,9OO; George &
Lynch, Dover, 9,894.50; Hanneman
& Burroughs Co., Salisbury, Md,
$191, 1,675.4O; Highway Engineering &
Construction Co., Selbyville; $185,187;
Juniata Co., Philadelphia, $22O,201.90;
E. Riley Mixner Co., Goshen, n. j.,
$194,763.5O; D. E. O'Connell & Son,
Ridley Park, Pa, $195,512.60; Sutton,
Coursen Co., Ocean City, N. j., S217,-
189; William w. Truitt, Lincoln City,
S191 $40.
Contract CS39, NAPLES Mill-Brick
Granary, 5.117 miles, Comerford Con-
struction Co., Philadelphia, S269,566;
T7;o1l Do,1-o,. p T-vJo,.,,vooJ Db;lodol
phia, S249,312; Froeming Bros, Inc,
Milwaukee, Wis, $294,413.90; E. Riley
Mixner, Goshen, N. j., $258, ,723.2O;
Roberts Paving Co., Salisbury, Md,
$3.50, ,867.6O; William w. Truitt, Lin
coin City, $253,O42.2O.
Contract SC3OB, Rehoboth Bridge,
superstructure rolling bascule, A. S.
Fox Co., Dayton, Ohio, S34,728;
Phoenix Bridge Co., Philadelphia,
S38,4OO.
Because of a question as to the
validity of the act passed by the rec
ent Legislature authorizing a Sussex
county million dollar bond issue, the
following resolution was presented
and adopted by the Commissions:
Whereas, A question has arisen re-
/ specting the constitutionality of an
act passed by the recent General As
sembly known as "Senate amendment
to House bill No. 278," which is an
act purporting to authorize and en-
power the Levy Court of Sussex coun-
ty to bond for one million dollars for
state and road construction, and
Whereas, This department deems it
unwise to proceed with its road build
ing program in Sussex county until
the validity of said act shall have
been determined by the courts, and
Whereas, For the public interest
and in order that the road building
program in Sussex county shall not
be unduly delayed that a decision of
our courts be secured at as early a
date as possible, and
| Whereas, Section ? of Chapter 13,
of the Revised Code of the State of
Delaware Of 1915 empowers the gov
ernOr to request the chancellor and
judges to give him there opinions in
| NAASLll6 bONN4lAHS bilC NOllSlllUllOudlllN W
of any law enacted by the Legisla-
ture of this state.
Now Therefore Be 1t Resolved, By
the State Highway Department of the
State of Delaware in meeting as
sembled this goth day of May, A. D.
1925, that it respectfully recommend
to the Honorable Robert P. Robinson,
Governor of Delaware, that he re-
quest the chancellor and judges ia
give him their opinion at as early a
date as possible touching the consti-
tutionality of said act Of the Assem-
bly,.
And Be 1t Further Resolved, That
copy of this resolution be spread
upon the minutes of this meeting and
that another copy be forthwith pre-
sented to the Governor.