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DETAIL SPECIFICATIONS.

THE REQUIREMENT.

It is required that there be constructed in accordance
with these specifications a

This pavement to extend from curb to curb as same may be
hereafter determined.

EXCAVATION.

Shall be included in the price of bid on per square
yard. The roadway shall be excavated to the necessary depth below
the established grade of the finished roadway, to provide for the
thickness of pavement, and thoroughly rolled with a 5 ton steam roller,
until the surface of the sub-grade is solid, and approximately
parallel to the proposed surface of the contemplated pavement.
Soft and springy places not affording a firm foundation shall be
dug out and refilled with good sound earth, cinders, gravel, concrete
slag or stone, as the engineer may direct, such extra excavation to
be paid for at actual reasonable cost of labor and materials, plus
15 per cent.

The contractor shall dispose of all excavated material as
directed by the engineer. Where the haul upon this material does
not exceed 3000 feet no extra compensation shall be allowed.

For distance greater than 3000 feet an over haul allowance
of one cent per cubic yard for each additional one hundred feet
shall be made.

In the prosectuion of the work the contractor will be held
responsible for all damages done to pipes and conduits.

MARGINAL CURB.

Whenever the pavement is joined to maedam, gravel or
other surface not affording proper support to the edge of the
pavement, a marginal curb shall be used. This curb shall be made of
a hard and durable stone, or concrete at least six inches wide
and fourteen inches deep if of stone. This curb shall be dressed
on top and five inches down on the face next to the pavement. It must