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tor for any work dies or becomes insolvent, 

 for the opposite party to be told that the sure- 

 ties are good ; in case of death, delay and in- 

 convenience frequently ensue. But where the 

 work to be completed is one in which the 

 health of a city is concerned by improved and 

 enlarged sewerage of it and its environs, death 

 and delay would go hand in hand together in 

 such a summer as that of 1858, while sureti- 

 ship is enforced, or a fresh letting is effected, 

 to supersede one breaking down under a case 

 of insolvency. 



