The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 | Page 9

No. 2. Underpinning walls: To underpin the walls as specified, requiring 750 cubic feet of brick masonry, or less, amount of masonry not to exceed 750 cubic feet.
Item No. 3. Filling in cavities: To fill in cavities and openings as specified, 500 lineal feet of 2 by 4 inches squared lumber and 800 cubic feet of masonry, or less, whole amount of filling not to exceed 825 cubic feet.
Item No. 4. To brace the walls as specified in the annexed plan and specifications.
Items numbered five and six of the specifications hereto annexed, together with the plans, specifications, and conditions pertaining especially and only to them and not to the other items, are omitted.
The said parties of the first part further contract and agree to deliver over the work, completed and finished, to such person as the Secretary of the Interior may designate, within two months after receipt of notice that this contract has been approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
It is further stipulated and agreed, That should the parties of the first part fail to complete the work within the time specified, or should they deliver work which is not in accordance with the plans and specifications hereto annexed, only such sum shall be paid for the work as may be agreed upon by the said parties of the first part and the Secretary of the Interior; and it is further stipulated and agreed on the part of the parties of the first part that if the work is not completed in the time specified and according to the specifications hereto annexed they will pay to the United States a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for each and every week after the time specified, such payments to be deducted from the amount due for work done: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, or such person as he may authorize to do so, may extend the time for the completion of the work.
And the United States of America, by the said Cosmos Mindeleff, acting for the Secretary of the Interior, do hereby contract and agree with the said parties of the first part that for the aforesaid work, performed and executed in the manner and under the conditions aforesaid, there shall be paid to the said parties of the first part the following sums:
For item No. 1. For clearing out the d��bris, as specified and as above limited, sixty cents ($0.60) for each cubic yard.
For item No. 2. For underpinning walls, as specified and as above limited, one dollar ($1) for each cubic foot.
For item No. 3. For filling in cavities, as specified and as above limited, one dollar ($1) for each cubic foot, including lumber.
For item No. 4. For bracing walls, as specified, two hundred dollars ($200). Provided, That payments for the work here contracted for shall be made only after the inspection and approval of the work by such person as the Secretary of the Interior shall designate.
It is an express condition of this contract that it shall have no force or effect until it is submitted to and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
It is a further condition of this contract that no Member or Delegate to Congress, or any other officer or agent of the United States, either directly or indirectly, himself or by any other person in trust for him, or for his use and benefit, or on his account, is a party to or in any manner interested, in whole or in part, in this contract, or in the enjoyments, benefits, profits, or emoluments arising therefrom.
(Signed) Theodore Louis Stouffer. [SEAL] Frederick Emerson White. [SEAL] Augustine Gray Williams. [SEAL] Andrew James Doran. [SEAL]
Witnesses as to Stouffer, White, Doran, and Williams:
(Signed) Frank C. Kebbey, _Clerk District Court, Second Judicial District, Territory of Arizona_. Cosmos Mindeleff, [SEAL] Acting for the Secretary of the Interior.
Witnesses as to Cosmos Mindeleff:
(Signed) Jeff Hunt. Chas. B. Eaman.
AFFIDAVIT OF CONTRACTORS
Territory of Arizona, _County of Pinal, ss:_
Augustine Gray Williams and Andrew James Doran, subscribers to and sureties in the contract hereto annexed, being duly sworn, depose and say, each for himself, that he is worth the sum of two thousand dollars over and above all debts and liabilities which he owes or has incurred, and exclusive of property exempt by law from levy and sale under execution.
(Signed) Augustine Gray Williams. [SEAL] Andrew James Doran. [SEAL]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this ninth day of May, A. D. 1891.
[SEAL] (Signed) Frank C. Kebbey, _Clerk District Court, Second Judicial District, Territory of Arizona_.
Territory of Arizona, _S Ct:_
I, Joseph H. Kebbey, associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Arizona, certify that I am personally acquainted with Augustine Gray Williams and Andrew James Doran, sureties, and that in my opinion they are good and sufficient to the amounts in which they have