Documents Relating To Internal Improvements In The State Of Illinois PDF Download

Excerpt from Documents Relating to Internal Improvements in the State of Illinois: February 23, 1839 Great inconvenience, cost, and uncertainty have been met. With by the vari ous members of the board in executing the law in relation to letting con tracts. The different. Members of the board, and the works upon which they are engaged, must necessarily be far separate from each other. The law requires the attendance of two commissioners at each letting, and makes no provision (in case the second commissioner should not attend) that the acting commissioner upon the line may call to his aid any judge, justice of the peace, or other officer, so thatif by any casualty there should not be two commissioners present, the whole object of the law should not be defeated, the lettings fail, and the work delayed, at great cost and injury to the public interest. The law has also been found defective in the provisions for paying con tractors and others engaged in the construction of the different works. If it was intended by the provisions of the 24th section that no draft should be drawn in favor of this class of persons for a less sum than twenty thousand dollars, then indeed the law becomes almost inoperative as in paying monthly estimates, (which is found to be necessary, ) very few con tractors perform work to that amount. A commissioner cannot have on hand more than twenty thousand dollars at any one time, (which, under a proper provision ofthe law, would be a sum sufficiently large yet it may and sometimes has happened that he has been required to pay, monthly, more than forty thousand dollars to contractors, no one of whom was enti tled to receive a draft upon the fund commissioners for twenty thousand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.