Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — Contract Between the Board of Commissioners and Heinzman Bros. [ARTICLE]

Contract Between the Board of Commissioners and Heinzman Bros.

Fourth. Should the contractors at any time during the progress of said work, bocomc bankrupt, refuse or neglect to supply a sufficiency of material or of workmen, or cause tfny unreasonable neglect or suspension of work, or fail or refuse to follow the drawings and specifications or comply with any of the articles of agreements, the board or its agents shall have the right and power to enter upon and take possession of the premises,' and may nt once terminate the contract, whereupon all elaims of the contractors, tlfeir executors, administrators or assignees, shall cease; and‘the ll Board may provide workmen Add material sufficient to complete said works, after having given 48 hours notice, in writing directed and delivered to. tht? contractors’or A. 4 •• , t at their residence; and the expenses of the notice and the completing of the various works will be deducted from the amount of the contract, or any part of it is due or to become due, to the contractors; and in such case no scaffolding or fixed tackle of any kind belonging to said contractors shall be removed, so long as the same is wanted for the work, but if any balance on the amount of this contract, remains after completion no respect of work done during the time of tlieT defaulting contractors, the same shall bploiig to the persons legally representing them, but the Board shall not be liable or accountable to them in any way for the manner in which it may have gotten the work completed. Fifth. Should any dispute arise respecting the true construction or meaning of the drawings or specifications, or as to what is extra work outside of the contract, the same shall be decided by the architects and their conclusion shall be final and conclusive: or in the evynt of their death or unwillingness to act, them or some other known architect, superintendent of worl&j. or fireman to be appointed by the£ Board. But should any dispute* arise respecting the true value niify .work omitted by the contractors, the same shall be valued ; by two: competent persons, one employed by the Board and the other byiin'e contractors and these two shafflhave power to name or amdecision shall be binding onfall parties. Sixth. No new work of any kind done on ’ the premises, or any work, of any kind whatsoever shall be considered extra unless a separate estimate in writing for the same before its commencement, shall have been submitted by the contractors to the architect and the Board, and thfe signatures obtained thereto, and contractors shall demand payrilent '■ for such work immediately Iw&h/ it is done. In case of days #>rk statement of the same must be delivered to the Board at latest during!., the week following that in which work may have been done, and ofty such

days work and extra work will be paid for, as such as agreed on and authorized in writing. Seventh. The Board will not, j in any manner be answerable or ! accountable for any lessor damage that shall or may happen to said works or any part or parts thereof respectively or for any of the ma- | terials or things used or employed |in finishing or completing said | works, or for injury to any person or persons, either workmen or the public or for damages to the adjoining property from any cause which might have been presented by the contractors, their workmen, or nny who are employed by them, against all which injuries and damage to persons and property, the contractors having control oyer such* work must properly guard against, and-must make good fall damages from whatever cause being strictly responsible for the same. Where there are diffierent contractors employed on the works each shall be responsible to the other for all damage to work, to persons or property, or for the loss caused by neglect, by failure to finish work at proper time, and preventing each portion of the works being finished by the several contractors at the date named in this contract for the completion, or for any other cause; and any contractor suffering damage shall' call the attention of the Board or architect to the same, for action laid down. *► Eighth. All work and material, ns delivered on the premises estimated and paid for, from part of the works, are to be considered the property of the Board and are not to be removed without its consent; but the contractors shall have the right to remove all surplus material after their completion of the works. Ninth. Should the contractors fail to finish the work at or before the time agreed upon they shall pay or allow the Board by way of liquidated the sum of twenty-five dollars per diem for each and every day thereafter the said works rjJipaiu incomplete., Tlie charges of damages to be left with the. Board whether to be charged or not. v Tenth. And it is further agreed by the parties of the contract that should there be a strike of the workmen, or any part of them and thereby delay the work the Board is to extend the time the number of days lost by the reason of said strike.- *•. \] Parties of the i Heinzman Bros. «->»«. |i F w H arr. n Parties of the \ B. R. Faria" second part (J. Martindale See Commissioners Record io y Pg- w* 248.

The cablegram discription of the great Dewey naval battle at Manilla As furnished by John T. McCutbeon, who was an eye witness to the great battle, as given in the Chicago Record on the morning of the 9th, cost thatpaper $1,357.82, being the amount of the cablegram from Hong Kong to Chicago.

It will be the one chance in your life time to get anything in the buggy, harness or wagon line real cheap. Tuesday, May 24, 1898, at Goodland Indiana, is the time and piace. The First Special Bale Day of Judy & ; The Leif ; Bnggy Co. is the event. It wiH jbe the introduction to their future business and the object will be to secure an iminese trade at once with no attention paid to profit. Will trade in old buggies also. Oasw tfiid see our immense stock of goods whether you want to buy or not.