08/14/1917 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Conerning the Imnr ovement of the roadway of Dubail Avenue from C""'Michigan Street to Miami Street, with asphalt, asohaltic concrete, bitulithic, or brick in pursuance to Resolution No. this eb ign the day for receiving and opening bids, the Board of Public WoBks at 10:00 o'clock publicly opened read and considered all bids. And thereupon the Board designted AsphaltioConcrete the kind of pavement.with which said street is Lobe improved and fixes the- 25th. day of August 1917 as the time when petit ions must be filed, and the Board hereby e ont inues this matter until the 25th.day of August 1917 at 10: 00 A. V,-. On the above above named the Board Frill either pass on petitions, let said contract, or reject all bids. E. M. MORRIS A. H. RICE JOHN B. 7EBER BOARD OF PUBLIC ?'iORXS. Dated this,14th. day of August 1917. The following communication with agreements as to the pavement between Chicago South Bend & Northern Indiana Railway Company tracks on Eddy Stret and Mishawaka Avenue was filed and approved by the Board .. AUGUST•10,1917. Mr. Eli. F. Seebirt, City Attorney, City of. South Bend, South Bend, Indiana. Dear Sir In' reference to your suggestion that the railway company file a stipulation with the Board of Public Works setting forth specifically the pett ik of Mishawaka Avenue and Eddy Street that is to be improved at the exepnse of tYr Chicago, South Bend & Northenn Indian Railway Company, I have submitted your suggestion to th Board of Directors of the Company and am authorized by then to execute the stipulation as drafted by you. In order to admit of my signing the agreement on behalf of the railway company instead of its exeeut ion• by the President / and the secretory, as proposed by your form, I have caused the last paragraph V of eabh form to be recast so as to recite th?t the agreement is executed by me as its attorney instead of by the President and secretary, and I enclosed there with the agreements: One covering the proposed improvement on Eddy Street and Vishawaka Avenue between Jefferson Boulevard and 19th. Street; One covering the portion of the improvement on 14isha,wake Avenue between 5th. Street abd 19th. Street; One covering the portion of the improvement of Mishawaka Avenue from Eddy Street to 19th. Street; One covering the portion of the improvement on Mishawaka Avenue from 5th. Street toEddy Street, and. Another covering that portion of the improvement on Eddy Street from Jefferson Boulevard to the south line of uishawa.ka Avenue Very truly yours, ;HARRY4?,WAIR. AGREE%ENT AND RATIFICATION. That, Whereas, the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana heretofore on the 3rd. day of July 1917 adopted a preliminary resolution, numbered 544 for theimprovement of that portion of Mishawaka Avenue and- Eddy Street from Jefferson Blvd. to Nineteenth Street by paving the same with some kind of modern City pavement;