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purposes of the works, but the corporation shall not be liable for any 

 loss or damage which may happen to any of the said materials or plant, 

 and the whole responsibility in reference thereto shall remain with the 

 contractor in the same manner as if they had remained his property. 

 When the works shall have been satisfactorily completed and the certifi- 

 cate of completion hereinafter referred to (see 01. 25) has been given, all 

 implements, plant, and unused materials which may be then upon the 

 ground shall revest in the contractor, and he shall forthwith remove the 

 same at his own cost, together with any buildings which may have been 

 erected for the purpose of this contract. 



8. Period of commencing and completing and order of executing work. 

 The contractor shall commence the works within seven days from the 

 date of notice from the engineer so to do, and shall complete and deliver 

 up the same within the following periods respectively from the date of 

 such notice, viz. : or shall forfeit or pay the sum of in 



respect of each work whereon the specified time shall be exceeded, for 

 each day by which such period shall be exceeded ; provided, however, 

 that if the contractor and his sureties shall not have entered into the 

 contract within seven days of the acceptance of his tender, or as soon 

 thereafter as the contractor shall have been requested to enter into the 

 same, then the period specified for the completion of the works shall be 

 held to have commenced seven days after the acceptance of the tender or 

 as soon thereafter as the contractor shall have been requested to enter 

 into the contract or at such later date as the engineer shall agree to in 

 writing, and the contractor shall complete and deliver up the whole of 

 the works within the aforesaid periods respectively, from the commence- 

 ment of the period for completion, or shall be liable to the penalties 

 hereinbefore set out. 



The work shall be carried on without any intermission, unless the 

 weather shall be such as to prevent its proper execution, or unless the 

 engineer shall, in the exercise of his discretion, suspend the work or any 

 part thereof on account of any cause which shall appear to be sufficient ; 

 but no such suspension shall extend the period within which the whole 

 of the work shall be completed, unless the cause or duration of such 

 suspension shall in the engineer's opinion require or justify an extension 

 of time, in which case the engineer shall allow such an extension of 

 time as he may consider proper ; but the contractor must exercise 

 every endeavour to avoid the necessity for any such extension. The 

 engineer may also allow additional time for any other cause which may 

 appear to him to be sufficient. The contractor shall carry out the works 

 in such order as may be directed by the engineer, and in such manner as 

 will facilitate, as far as possible, the execution of any work to be per- 

 formed by either parties, and will interfere as little as possible with the 

 traffic upon the various public and private roads and footways. 



[NOTE. As to penalties generally, see Chap. XV. ; as to effect of delay in 

 commencing work which is due to the acts of the employers, see Chap. XV., 

 9 ; as to engineer's power to grant extensions of time, see Chap. XV., 13.] 



8A. Delay ~by frost. The surveyor may delay the progress of the 

 works in case of frost or otherwise, without vitiating the contract, and 

 grant such extension of the time for the completion of the contract a.s ho 



