This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ... his absence or that of his representative can not delay operations. The results obtained by these tests shall be accepted by the contractor without recourse to other tests. The results shall be communicated to the contractor. 6. Delay in delivery.--In case of a delay arising, either from insufficient deliveries or ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ... his absence or that of his representative can not delay operations. The results obtained by these tests shall be accepted by the contractor without recourse to other tests. The results shall be communicated to the contractor. 6. Delay in delivery.--In case of a delay arising, either from insufficient deliveries or from (he refusal of delivered briquets through the fact that the time fixed by contract has expired through letters of order, and without which there would be need of entering a suit, the contractor shall incur, for each month of delay, a penalty of 2 per cent of the value of the delivery not effected. When the delayed quantity is equal to or greater than the supply for a month, the company shall have the right--eight days after entering a suit by registered letter, this remaining without effect--unless a case of superior force be duly established--of suing for the amount due. If the company sees fit to refuse the deliveries when they are not produced within the fixed period of delay, it may annul the contract, and this through fjill right, without recourse to law. 7. Quality of the materials.--The small coal to be used for the manufacture of briquets shall be provided exclusively from the mines of It shall be of recent extraction and free, so far as possible, from sulphur, pyrites, and all foreign matter. It should not produce slag of a nature to impair the gratings or affect, the production of steam. Coal coming from parts of the mine affected by lire shall be excluded. The agglomerated material shall be dry pitch--that is to say, the residue from the tar mineral from which 40 per cent of the volatile matter has been removed, and which in this state should be altogether solid and almost without odor. The pitch, submitted for test in a closed ve...
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