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SOURCE: BUFFALO EVENING NEWS- VOL.XXXIV. NO. 145 -September 27, 1897 
NEW YORK STATE CANALS 

NOTICE TO THE CONTRACTORS - Office of the Superintendent of Public Works, Albany, N.Y.,
Thursday, September 16, 1897. Pursuant to the chapter 113, laws of 1897, sealed proposals will
be received by the Superintendent of Public Works, at his office in Albany, N.Y. until noon
Tuesday, September 28, 1897, at 12 o'clock noon of that day, for constructing a bridge over the
Oswego canal at First and Oneida streets, in the village of FUlton, N.Y.  Plans and
specifications may be seen from the date of publication of this notice to the date of receipt
of bids, at the office of the Superintendent of Public Works, Albany, N.Y., and at the office
of the Assistant Superintendent of Public Works, Thomas Wheeler, Syracuse, M.Y., and at the
office of the Assistant Superintendent of Public Works, R.G. Lay, Rochester, N.Y.  Every
proposal for said work must be accompanied by a draft or certified check upon some good banking
institution in the city of New York or Albany, issued by a National or State bank in good
credit within the State, payable at sight to the Superintendent of Public Works, for the amount
expressed below, as required to be deposited with bid for the proposed work.  The amount of
deposit bid for the same will be 10 percent of the proposal and will be retained as part of the
security until the completion of the work; the amount of labor bond required on execution of
contract will be 35 percent of the proposal, the amount of bond for faithful performance of
contract, on exectuion of contract will be 40 percent of the proposal.  All proposals for the
above work must be addressed to the Superintendent of Pubic Works, at Albany, N.Y., and must be
endorsed on envelope: "Pre-Oswego canal at First and Oneida streets, in the village of Fuylton,
N.Y.".  The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.
GEORGE W. ALDRIDGE, 
Superintendent of Public Works. 
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