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Acc't Alley Amount received Archer avenue Armitage avenue Ashland avenue Bloomingdale Blue Island avenue boilers Buren C. F. Cedar blocks California avenue Canal Cedar blocks Center avenue Chicago avenue Chicago River Clark Clybourn avenue coal Cobble stone commissioner of public cost Cottage Grove Curbing and filling Dearborn Desplaines Division street Douglas avenue East Egan avenue Elston avenue engine Ferrules Fullerton avenue Granite blocks Halsted street Hoyne avenue inches Indiana J. B. Smith Kedzie avenue Kinzie Lake lamps Leavitt Lincoln lineal feet Macadam Michigan avenue Milwaukee avenue N. W. cor North avenue North side Oakley avenue Ogden avenue Park avenue Paulina pipe Planking Polk pumps Randolph repairs Robey Rockwell Salle sewers South Division street bridge street viaduct Thirty-first Total number Twelfth street Twenty-second Twenty-sixth valves viaduct Wabash avenue Washtenaw West Chicago West Chicago avenue West Division West Madison West side West Twelfth Western avenue Wooden block
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Page 14 - All contracts for the making of any public improvement, to be paid for in whole or in part by a special assessment, and any work or other public improvement, when the expense thereof shall exceed $500, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder...
Page 11 - There is hereby established an executive department of the municipal government of the city of Chicago...
Page 326 - February 11, 1835, changing the corporate powers of that town, it was provided " that the authority of the Board of Trustees of the said Town of Chicago shall not extend over the south fractional section 10 until the same shall cease to be occupied by the United States.
Page 15 - ... and all other public buildings in the city belonging to the city, and of the erection of all public buildings; of all works for the widening, deepening or dredging of the Chicago River and...
Page 19 - ... his, their or its employes or workmen, and when due notice has been given of the pendency of such suit, such judgment shall be conclusive against such person, persons, firm or corporation, and his, their or its sureties on such bond, not only as to the amount of damages, but as to their liability: and conditioned also for the payment of all claims and demands whatsoever which may accrue to each and every person who shall be employed by such contractor, or any assignee or sub-contractor of such...
Page 256 - I have the honor to submit to you my annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, together with my recommendations for the improvement of the electrical branch.
Page 12 - He shall be appointed by the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the common council.
Page 18 - Any persons taking any contracts with the city, and who agree to be paid from special assessments, shall have no claim or lien upon the city, in any event, except from the collections of the special assessments made for the work contracted for...
Page 29 - Said commissioner shall appoint a deputy commissioner who shall be an expert entomologist and horticulturist, and who shall perform such duties as may be required of him by said commissioner, and shall be acting commissioner in the absence of the commissioner.
Page 22 - ... to which they may be put by reason of injuries resulting from neglect or carelessness in performing the work so permitted, and that no claim will be made by them or their successors in interest against the Corporation, if the work so permitted be taken up by...