09/11/1917 Board of Public Works Minutes

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The following assignment for Williston Construction Company Was approved by the Board, South Bend, Indiana Sept., 4,1917. FOR VALUE RECEIVED, The Williston Construction Company hereby transfers, sells and assigns to the ST. JOSEPH LOAN & TRUST COMPANY of South Bend, Indiana, all its right, title and interest in ---and to a certain contract made and executed by and between the City of South Bend, Indiana, and the Williston Construction Company, for the paving and improving -of Howard Street in the City of South Bend, Indiana, which contract is dated, lat. day`of August 1917, and the said Construction. Company hereby transfers, sells and assigns to the said +rust Company all money and bonds that shall hereafter be due from the City of South Bend, to the said construction Company, and the saud +he St. Joseph Loan & Trust Company is hereby authorized to receive said money and the said bonds, and the receipt of the said Trust Company therefor, shall fully discharge the City ofSouth Bend, -from any further liability to the said Williston Construction Company. The consideration for the foregoing assignment, is that the said the St. Joseph Loan &Trust Company has agreed to advance to the said Williston Construction Company, certain amounts of money that .may be required during the construction of the said work and the foregoing assignment -is made to secure the said The St. Joseph Loan &trust Company for all amounts so advanced and loaned to the said Williston Construction Company. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the.Williston Construction Company has hereunto executed this agreement and affixed its seal this 4th. day of September 1917- WILLISTON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. BY J.` G. 'SCHAUB Secy. City of South Bend, South Bend, Indiana, .,he above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of the assign- ment ofthe contract made by the Williston Construction Company to the St. Joseph Loan and +rust Company of -South Bend, Indiana, and you will kindly abserve -the. provisions thereof, and pay to the -said rust Company all moneys and bonds that may hereafter accrue and be pay- able to the Williston Construction Company. ROME C. STEPHENSON President. Dated Sept., 4,1917. Bond and. contract for ,the pavement on Dubail Avenue. from Michigan -Street to Miami Street signed by +he.- White Construction...Company as pineipal. and +he National Surety Company as suaeties was presented to the Board, but.all action;ot same was deferred unt i1: Tuesday S e$t emb er 18th.',1917 at 10: 00 A.M. Contract for pipe sewer on Niles Avenue from Napoleon Blvd, to St. Vincent Street, was :awarded to Staples & Ackerman` at prices bid on at 10-:00 •A.U. this llth. day of September 1917. Contract_ for pavement on all north of Washington Avenue from William Street to Taylor Street was awarded to Harry N. Barnes at prices bid on at 10:00 A.M. this -llth: day of Septeorr 1917. lr. F. J..Anderson, City Engineer brought up the matter regarding the delay of water taps on Dub A Avenue. Water works claimed that' had only a few taps left out�ldesired them for use other places. �he Board resolved to call a special meeting Friday evening Selbt., 14th., 1917 if E. C Daicey, Mgr. of the South Bend Home Telephone Company did not move poles by Thursday Sept., 13th.,1917. The Board took up the matter of an increase in the salary of the City Cemetery Sextons salary and refused the same. It was unanimously adopted and approved by the Board that the plan of Eddy Street and Uishawaka Avenue suggested by Mr. A. H. Rice making the roadway taper from 66 feet at Jefferson Boulevard to 46 feet at the Grand Trunk , be approved.-