Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1907 — Page 8

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LEGAL ADTMMMIire PETITION FOR STONE ROA©. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, July term, 1907. We, the undersigned each and all of whom are residents freeholders and voters of Kirkland township in Adams county, Indiana, most respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free Macadamized Stonp Road constructed and completed in said Kirkland township, over and upon the public highway, situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of section twenty-five (25) township twenty-seven (27) north range thirteen (13) east, running thence east between sections twentyfour (24) and twenty-five (25), and ending at the northeast corner of said section twenty-five (25), township and range aforesaid, the end and terminus thereof being on the boundary line between Washington township, Adams county, Indiana, and Kirkland township aforesaid. That the improvement thus prayed for is less than three miles in length, and connects both ends with a free macadam road. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway above described be graded, and that broken stone be placed upon ‘the grade and that upon said broken 5 stone that there be placed stone screenings. Your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway, already established, and is one of the public highways of Kirkland township, that the Improvement herein prayed for is to an extension of the Decatur and Bluffton Macadam Road, and connects at the commencement thereof with the Decatur and Bluffton Road, and at the end and terminus thereof the same connects with the West Washington Macadam Road Extension No. 5. Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-four (24) feet, and that broken stone be placed thereon, to awidth of ten (10) •feet, and to a depth of eight (8) inches at the sides thereof, and to a depth of ten (10) inches in the center thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to a depth of three (3) inches upon said broken stone, that said road be constructed as a double track, that the name of said road shall be the Decatur and Bluffton Macadam Road Extension No. 7. We ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levie ( d

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• upon the taxable property of said Ktr...and township, Adiias county, Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay ■ the interest and principal of said bonds as they may become due. | That said road be buiit and that. said bonds be issued, and said tax ? levied upon said property of said township, in accordance with the acts} of thel egislature of the state of In- j liana, passed in the year 1905, beginning on page 550, and as amended in the acts of 1907 now in force pro- 1 vidlng for the extension of free gravel ’ or macadam roads. We further ask that the board take the different steps as required by law, to have said improvement constructed, and made, as petitioned herein, that the same be constructed witbout subm'tting the question of building the same to an election of thev oters of said rirkland township. and that they construct the same under the laws of the staet of Indiana, now in force providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. George Crist, Ezra Reber, D. F. Fugate, Jacob Heller, Adam Hower, George Houck, H. T. Diehl, J. D. Brown, A. Reppert, Reuben Beery, H. J. Dilling, Wm. Stepler, Wm. Brelner, W. L. Breiner, James D. Hoffman, Wm. F. Fulk, L. Howard, J. V. Pease, Geo. P. Shaft, Jonah Carson, J. G. Crum, Heinerlch Hilgerman, Christ Helmrich, G. F. Byerly, Albert Arnold, J. H. Ward, S. J. Bowers, Wm. Adler, Fred Hubner, Wm. Sautbine, J. B. Stoutenberry, B. J. Booker, Elijah Pease, E. S. Howard,- C. B. Niblick, W. D. Hower, Geo. W. Miller, S. L. Driver, Gustav Yager,, T. M. Fulk, Jack Scherry, E. E. Zimmerman, Sam Gast, P. E. Fugate, A. C. Butcher, A. Fugate, Geo. Martin, G. H. Bright, C. N. Zimmerman, D. C. Zimmerman, J. S. Byerly, Chas. S. Bryan, T. E. Henschen, Calvin F. Eiler, Louis Conrad, E. R. Wright, H. S. Jackson, Jacob Myer, Peter Helmrich, Frank Arnold, Albert Bracht. Jacob Spade, J. T. Niblick, Fred Bracht, Jacob Olwine, H. A; Breiner, C. N. Weldy, James D. Gault, George A. Ernst, J. W. Stoneburner, Samuel J. Leyse, John H. Beery, Isaac L. Babcock, M. C. Norris, Joe Shoaf, Wm. Shoaf. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, July 1, 1907, ■ at which time any taxpayer of Kirkland township may appear and make such objections as the law may pro-, vide for. 15-3 t C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, July term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all ! of whom are legal voters, household- | ers and freholders of and in the town(ship of Wabash in the county of Adams and state of Indiana, do here|by respectively petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and Completed in said Wabash township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of section fifteen (15) in township twenty-five (25) north range fourteen (14) east, running thence east on the section line between sections ten (10) and fifteen (15), eleven (11) land fourteen (14); twelve (12) and thirteen (13) to the northeast corner of section thirteen (13) township and M*ange aforesaid, and there to terminate, said road being less than three ij (3) miles in length. Said road to be known as Extension No. 4 of the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township 11 Macadam Road, a free macadam road heretofore constructed and the question of constructing the same was submitted to and voted upon by the ; voters of said Wabash township. Said . I proposed improvement connects at the , . commencement thereof with the said ■ | Geneva. Ceylon and Wabash Free Mai cadam Road and at the end of termin- > us thereof said proposed road ends on i the township line being the line dividl ing said Wabash township and Jeffer- • son township in said county and state, and said proposed Improvement at the ; end and terminus thereof connects s with an improved highway on the I township line aforesaid. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway > above described be graded and that - broken stone be placed upon the grade , and that upon such broken stone there - be placed stone screenings and that t there be built, made and constructed 1 upon said highway what is known as a macadamized road. ! Your petitioners further stow that the public highway thus sought to I be improved is a public highway already established and is one of the public highways of said Wabash township. Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-two (22) feet, and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of ten (10) feet and to a depth of ten (10) inches in the center thereof and to a depth of eight (8) Inches at the sides thereof and that the crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to a depth of three (3) inches upon said broken stone. That said road be constructed as a double track that the .name of said road shall be the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road Extension No. 4. We ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the county of .Adams, in the state of Indiana, ’ payable in twenty semi-annual instali ments or series, and for the paymentof which we ask that a tax be levied ’ upon the taxable property of said Wabash township in Adams county, In-1 diana, in a sufficient amount to.pay ; the interest and principal of said . bonds as they may become due, that said road be built and that said bonds J be issued and said tax be levied up- ( on said said property of said township ; in accordance with the acts of the ( legislature of the state of Indiana, . passed in the year 1905 and amended : in the year 1907 in the acts of the 1 [ General Assembly of the State of Indiana for the year 1907. We further ask that the board take i the different steps as required by law , to have said improvement constructed and made and that they construct the same under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Indiana, providing for **■ • , 7

the extension of Free Gravel or Macadam Roads. , George Cook, Jacob Cook, Ardon S. Burley, John W. Cook, Wm. F. Fravel, i Henry Chrisman, Samuel N. , William Follen, Jacob Runkel, Thomas I E. Macy, R. B. Kerr, Sam Soldner, C. Blery, W. Z. Glancy, Wm. Peel, Wm. ! Shaffter, Peter Bauman, Fred Hannl, Wm. Mann, Jacob T. Burley, Christ i Stenier, William Lehman, Lafayette - Rape, T. J. Williams, Abe Kneuss, John Kuntz, J. H. Smith, Michael Enyel, Michael Schafer, Alex Itthinger, | Henry Engle, Eldridge Weaver, Nar than Shepherd, J. W. Deitsch, P. AMacklin, S. W T . Hale, J. A. Anderson, L. L. Mattox, Adam C. Ford, S-. Cook, D. B. Linton, F. M. Rynearson, Jacob Pease, Adam Cully, P. C. Ford, W. W. Briggs, Wm. Speicher, Andrew Idlewine, S. H. Teeple, Bartlmeus Boice, John Brown, Jacob Kneuss, Jacob Halfen, George Aumiller, Peter Aumiller, Daniel Baumgartner, Wm. Harlow, Russel Long, August Huselman, Fred MathYs. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, July 1, 1907, at which time the taxpayers of Wabash township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 15-3 t C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, July term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and ail of whom are resident' freholders and voters of Washington township, and the city of Decatur, in the county of Adams, and state of Indiana, do hereby respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Washington township, said county add state, over and along the public highway, situated on the following- route, to-wit: Commencing at a point in the center of the highway running north and south and dividing section three (3) and four (4) in township twenty-seven (27) north, range fourteen (14) east, and about 132 feet north of the. north . line of the right-of-way of the Chica-! go and Erie railroad company, run-' ning thence east along and over the public highway, for a distance, of about thirteen hundred (1300) feet, thence j .running in a south-easterly direction: over the public highway for a dlstahce of about one-fourth (%) of a mile and terminating at the east Washington Macadam Road in section two (2) township twenty-seven (27) 1 north range fourteen (14) east, In ' Adams county, Indiana. That said improvement as prayed for is less than three miles in length and connects at both ends with a free macadam road, in said Washington township, and that this improvement is to be a continuation of and an extension of the Decatur and Monroe | Macadam Road extension and is to be called Decatur and Monroe Extension No. 5. j Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway above described, be drained and graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon such broken stone there be placed stone I screenings and that there be built made and constructed, upon said highway, what is known hs a macadamized road. And your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be ' improved is a public highway already established and is one of the highways of said Washington township. We ask that said improvement be paid for in bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual instal-! ments or series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied, upon the taxable property of said Washington township, and the city of Decatur, situated in said township, all in Adams county, Indiana in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds, as they may become due, that said road be built, that said bonds be issued and said tax be levied, upon said property, of said township and said city, in accordance with the acts of the legislature! of the state of Indiana, passed in the year 1905, in the acts of 190 <, and any and all amendments thereto.- 7 We further ask the board that the proposed improvement be constructed, without submitting the question of building the same to the voters of said Washington township, and that the board take the different steps to have said highway Improved as prayed for in this petition, and that they construct the same under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Indiana, providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. L. G. Ellingham, Geo. W. Roop, Fred Schafer, H. B. Heller, C. Radamacker Eli Meyer, H. Krick, J. Q. Neptune, Julius Haugk, B. J. Smith, Fred H. Heuer, Simeon J. Hain, H. R. Moltz, J. F. Lachot, E. Woods, David Gerber, E. Burt Lenhart, C. A. Dugan, P. K. Kinney, Fred Hoffman, J. H. Yager C. S. Clark, A. Van Camp, W. J. Archbold, B. J. Sholty, H. M. DeVoss, J. D. Stults, Roy Archbold, T. R. Moore, P. Kirsch, Fred Reppert, David E. Smith, C. C. Schafer,.L. A. Graham, D. M. Hower, H. F. Callow, J. B. Holthouse, P.Houlthouse.N. C. Anderson,M. Burns, P. B. Thomas, A. J. Smith, F V. Mills, H. F. Linn, C. D. Lewton, R. K. Erwin, L- C. Helm, J. C. Sutton, Charlie Voglewede, A. P. Beatty, John T. Myers, Ed Bultemeyer, Dyonis Schmitt, F. A. Peoples, J. H. Heller, G. Reynolds, S. E. Shamp, J. C. Tritch, : W. H. Lee, Wm. Jackson, Thomas T. I Lister, Orval Harruff, L. Ellis D B ; Erwin, A. F. Welfley, Harry N. Helm’, Dan M. Niblick, H. F. Costello, D. D. Clark, G. Christen. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, July 1, 1907, at which time any taxpaye/ of Wash- ■ ington township may appear and make such objections as the law may nrovide for. 15-3 t . C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. NOTICE. All persona assessed in the Werling

.. — and Meyers ditch take notice that ten per cent of your assessment on said ditch is due and payable at the county surveyor’s office on the last Saturday of June 29, 1907, and one installment of ten per cent on the last Saturday in each month until paid in full. L. L. BAUMGARTNER, 14-lt. Supt. of Construction. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that, the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Jndiana, will receive bids for the construction of a macadamized road 1° Washington township in said county .known as the Raudenbush-Hain Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock a. m., on •> Monday, July 1, 1907, at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned- for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid ■filed. All blds shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estinkates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent.-of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. ,The Board of Commissioners re- ' serve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. ■ Notice is hereby given that the . Board of Commissioners of Adams | county, Indiana, will receive blds for the construction of a macadamized road in Hartford township in said , county, known as the Reynolds MacadI am Road Extension No. 4, up and until 10 o’clock a. m., on Monday, July 1, 1907, . at a regular session of said Board of I Commissioners held in the city of De- ' catur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed blds will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. | A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned for faithful performance jof said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. * All bids shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer | iti charge, not to exceed eighty per cent, of any one estimate out of the ! funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all. bids. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, will receive bids for the construction of a macadamized road in Monroe township, in said county, known as the Huser and Waggoner Macadam Road, up and until 10 o’clock a. m., on Monday, July 1, 1907, at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held in the. city of Decatur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed bids will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report pfthe Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone.A good bond must accompany each bid-twice the amount of. the bld filed conditioned for faithful performance of said work and tlhat the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and qomplete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bld filed. All bids shall he made so as to give the amount for 'Which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer, in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent, of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County., NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, superintendent of the construction of the John L. Helms ditch, in Preble township, Adams county, Indiana, on Saturday, June 22, 1907, at 10:30 o’clock a. m., at the office of the County Surveyor, in the City of Decatur, in said county, receive sealed blds for the construction of said ditch in accordance with reports, plans and specifications therefor, now on file in said cause, . Blds will be received and contracts let to .follows: Section 1 from Station 24 to 34 plus 38. Section 2 from Station 14 to 24.

— ...re.— ~ Section 3 from Station 0 to 14. and to the lowest and best bidder or bidders. Bidders will be required to file with their bids affidavits as required by law, upon forms furnished by such superintendent and each bid shall be accompanied with a good and sufficient bond in a sum equal to the amount of such bld, conditional for the faithful performance of said contract, and that such bidder will enter into contract if the same be awarded to him, such bond to be approved by said superintendent The said superintendent reserves the right do. reject any and all bids. No bids will be accepted in excess of the estimated cost of suqh work, or in excess of the benefits found. : L. L. BAUMGARTNER, 14-2 t Superintendent of Construction NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, will receive blds for the construction of a macadamized road in Wabash township in said county, known as the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road Extension No. 3, up and until 10 o’clock am., on Mcrtday, July 1, 1907, at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, sealed blds will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned for faithful' performance of said work and that the bidder If awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete, the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bid filed. * All blds shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. * C. D. Lewton, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners, of Adams county, Indiana, will receive bids for the construction of a macadamized road in Root township in said county, known as the J. A. Cline Macadam Road, qp until 10 o’clock a. m., on Monday, July 1, 1907, at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed blds will be received for the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance with the bld filed. All blds shall be made so as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent, of any one estimate out of the funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids. C. D. LEWTON, . •- 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, .will receive bids for the ■ construction of a macadaiqized road in Washington township in said county, known as the 'West Washlnton Macadam Road Extension No. 5, up and until 10 o’clock a. m., on Monday, July 1, 1907, * at a regular session of said Board of Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed blds will be received sot the construction of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of the Viewers and Engineer which are now on file in the Auditor’s office of said county, said roads to be built of crushed stone alone. ~ A good bond must accompany each bid twice the amount of the bid filed conditioned for faithful performance of said work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into contract therefor and complete the same according to such contract and in accordance' with the bid filed. All bids shall be made So as to give the amount for which said road will be constructed for cash payable on estimates to be made by the Engineer in charge, not to exceed eighty per cent, of any one estimate out of the. funds to be hereinafter raised by the sale of bonds as required by law. Each bidder will be required to file affidavit as provided by law. The Board of Commissioner? reserve .the right to reject any and all blds. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. NOTICE OF PUBLIC LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, will. Receive blds for the construction of " a macadamized road in Kirkland township in said county, known as the Otto Reppert Macadam Road, up and until 19 o’clock

re-■ . h.ww.ii in a. m., on r Monday, July 1, 1907, 1 at a regular session of said Board of ’ Commissioners held in the city of Decatur, Adams, county, Indiana, sealed j bids will be received for the construct tion of said road in accordance with the plans, specifications and report of t the Viewers and Engineer which are f now on file in the Auditor’s office of j said county, said roads to be built of Crushed stone alone. A good bond must accompany each 3 bld twice the amount of the bld filed conditioned for faithful performance of.said .work and that the bidder if awarded the contract therefor will enter into, epntract. therefor and * complete the same According to such con- , tract and in accordance with the bid 1 filed. ■ ' ■■ • w All bids shall be made so to to give the amount fqr which said road will be constructed fdr cash payable on esj timdtes to be made by the Engineer j in charge, not to exceed eighty per r cent, of any one estimate out of the 1 funds to be hereinafter raised by the - sale of bonds as required by law. 1 Each bidder will be required to file 1 affidavit as provided by law. ) The Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all blds. C. D. LEWTON, 14-3 t Auditor of Adams County. f —— - NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS FOR I • SUPPLIES. Notice is hereby given that on Mon- : day, the Ist day of July, 1907, and c I up until ten o’clock a. m., of said day, * the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, in the state of Indiana, constituting the Board of Turnpike directors, as such Board will receive sealed } 1 bids for the furnishing of crushed J i stone and other materials for tumipke ' repairs in said Adams county for the ensuing year, blds will be received and entertained as follows, in carload lot? to vary with the needs of the county, j and subject to the order of said Board 1 or its superintendents, prices per yard f. o. b. at the following railroad sta- ? tions in said county, to-wit: Bingen, Decatur, Monroe, Berne,Geneva, Craig- ‘ ville, Peterson, Pleasant Mills, Rivarre, Preble. Magley, also per yard loaded in wagons at quarries in Decatur, ; Linn Grove, Hartford township, Jeffer- ! son township, Blue Creek township, Pleasant Mills and at Willshire, 0., ! Said stone to be furnished upon order aforesaid, optional with said Board, ’ and according to specifications now on file in the’Auditor’s office of Adams county, Indiana, bids will also be re- ■ ceived for bridge plank, bidder to give . place of delivery, bids will also be received for common drain tile in sizes from three to eighteen inch, bidder ( to give price at factory named by him, , bids will also be received for hard . burned brick, suitable for wells, bld- ! der to state prices at kiln. Blds will also be received for salt glazed tile, } sizes from six to twenty-four Inches, t each bid shall be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond in the sum of $2,000 with either free hold or surety, and with the necessary affidavit as ! required by law, the Board reserves ■ ,the right to reject any and all bids. 1 . MARTIN LAUGHLIN, - DAVID WERLING, WILLIAM MILLER, ! Board of Turnpike Directors of ! Adams county, Indiana. 1 Attest: —C. D. Lewton, Auditor. 1 14-2 t. NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS. Notice is hereby given that the ■ Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams in the state of Indiana, will , on the first day of July, 1907, and up until 10 o’clock a. m. of said-day, receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all material and labor necessary for the construction of the following Bridges, Arches and Abutments, for . the use of said county, to-wit: Wm. Kuklehan Bridge, Root township, 16 by 32, also concrete abutments at same , bridge. John McKean Bridge on Monroe township line, 22 by 16 foot span, George Jacobs bridge, Blue Creek township, 24 by 16 foot span. River Bridge at Linn Grove, 160 by 16 . foot span, concrete abutments at same place. Bidders on structural, concrete work on Linn Grove job will also state price which they will pay or allow for old Bridge. Bidders may bid on structural and concrete work as a whole or separately. All according to certain surveys, profiles and general plans, which have heretofore been pre--1 pared and deposited and are now oh ' file in the office of the Auditor of said county and which are now open to public Inspection. Bids will also be ■ received at the same time and place , for painting court house roof, and barns at county infirmary, according to plans -and specifications now on file at the Auditor’s office. , No bid will be received or entertained by said Board unless such bid is accompanied by an affidavit such as is now required by law governing bids for Bridges. Each bid must be accompanied by a ' good and sufficient bond, equal to the amount of the bid, made payable to ; the State of Indiana, signed by at least two freehold sureties, residents of the county, or bj*a properly authorized and qualified bonding or surety company; which bond shall guarantee the faithful performance and execution of the work so bld for, in case the same is awarded, and that the contractor shall promptly pay all debts incurred by him in the prosecution of such work, including labor, materials furnished, and for boarding the laborers thereon. Any one desiring to submit plans and specifications for competition at the same letting may do so by filing the same with the county Auditor of said county not less than ten days before the said date of letting. If any such plans and specifications so submitted include the use of any patented device or of any article controlled by a monopoly, the specifications shall be accompanied by a statement of the terms upon which such device or article may be used’or obtained. The Board reserve the right to reject any and all bids. / . MARTIN LAtIGHLIN, DAVID WERLING, k WILLIAM. MILLER, 1 Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. Attest:—<3. D. Lewton, Auditor. 14-3 t.