Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the Common Council1862 |
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acc't service pipe Alley American Exchange Bank Amounts brought forward Amounts carried forward April Archer road Assessment roll Balance unexpended Blue Island Avenue Board of Public Bouton Bricks Canal st Carpenter CASH PAYMENT cast iron catch basin Cement cent Chicago avenue Chicago river City Treasurer Clark street CLARK STREET BRIDGE CLEANSING construction contract Cregier crib Dearborn DEDUCT diameter DISTRIBUTING PIPES engine house erection Estimates paid expenditures expenses FEET SEWER Fulton gallons hydrants inch inlet Jefferson Kinzie Labor Lake street Lake Tunnel lots Lumber Michigan avenue miles Milwaukee avenue Miscellaneous N. W. cor North District north side North street Park People's Gas Polk previously paid pumping Rebate Receipts reservoir Reuben river Rucker Rush street Salary of Tender Sewerage sidewalks Sinking Fund South Branch SOUTH DIVISION south side South Water street stop-cocks STREET IMPROVEMENT STREET SEWER street tax Total TRUE COST Twelfth Water Loan Bonds water pipes WEST DIVISION wrought iron
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Strana 98 - The corporate authorities of counties, townships, school districts, cities, towns and villages may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes, such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property, within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same.
Strana 66 - Board shall determine the value of the work so added or omitted, such value to be added to or deducted from the contract price, as the case may be.
Strana 68 - An act to reduce the charter of the city of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to revise the same...
Strana 68 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby given to...
Strana 67 - ... to finally decide all questions arising as to the proper performance of said work, and in case of improper construction to suspend said work at any time, and relet the same, or to order the entire reconstruction of said work if improperly done, or relet the same to some more capable and faithful contractor or contractors...
Strana 67 - And the said party of the second part, for and in consideration of the covenants and agreements to be kept and performed by the said party of the first part...
Strana 68 - Illinois, to extend a tunnel, or inlet pipes, into Lake Michigan, so far as may be deemed necessary to insure a supply of pure water, and to erect a pier, or piers, and crib...
Strana 62 - The excavation for the tunnel, when through sufficiently firm clay, shall conform exactly to the outside of the masonry on the bottom and sides. On top, just enough of excavation above the masonry will be allowed, to give room to turn and key the upper arch properly.
Strana 27 - ... necessary to pump to supply the wants of the canal itself, and nothing more was done by the city. During the whole summer and the early part of autumn, the river, though receiving its full amount of sewerage, did not become so offensive at any time as to be a cause of complaint. Very soon, however, after the packing season commenced, a most disagreeable odor was observed near the Old Street Bridge, on the South Branch, which is above the outlet of any existing sewer. This peculiar odor could...
Strana 66 - Should the commissioner of public works deem it proper or necessary, in the execution of the work, to make any alterations which shall increase or diminish the expense, such alterations shall not vitiate or annul the contract Vo1.