Wisconsin State Drainage Association



                              xX.
                 DECISION OF COMMISSIONERS.

  In 1the interpretation of these specifications and the contract
and upon all questions concerning the execuition of the, work,
the decision of the commissioners shall be final.

  It is hardly to be expected that those preparing the specifi-
cations can foresee every possible matter of dispute that may
arise in the construction of the work and for that reason it is
advisable that some person or number of persons should be
named in the specifications whose decision as to the interpreta-
tion of the specifications and the contract and all questions re-
lating to the execution of the work shall be final. In my own
experience I have found it very satisfactory to provide that
the decision of the commissioners in these matters should con-
trol, but at the same time I have always insisted that the com-
inissioners be fair and reasonable in their decisions.


                             XXII.

                        ABANDONMENT.

  If the, conMtractor shall, at anly time before its completion,
abandon. the work he has contracted to perform, he and his
bondsmen shall not be released from the provisions of part X-6
of these specifications; bitt he shall forfeit all moneys then due
him for work performed and he and his bondsmen shall be li-
able to the district for all loss or damage occasioned by sutch
abandonment and for any increased cost or expense to which
the district may be put, in completing the work according to the
contract.

  Every set of specifications should be prepared in contempla-
tion of the possible abandonment of the work by the contractor.
Not only may the contractor become bankrupt, but death and
other contingencies may result in the abandonment of the work.
For these reasons, it is advisable that the specifications should



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