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|colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | '''Great Western Railway Company'''<br>'''Bewdley and Kidderminster Branch'''<br> |-| ||style="text-align:center;" |'''Specification of Works'''
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|colspan="2" || to be done in constructing the railway (intended for a single line of railway) authorised by "The West Midland and Severn Valley Railway Companies Act 1864" "The Great Western Railway Act 1868" and "The Great Western Railway Act 1872" commencing in the Foreign of Kidderminster in the Parish of Kidderminster in the County of Worcester by a junction with the Severn Valley Line of the Great Western Railway at or near the Bewdley Station and terminating in the foreign Parish and County aforesaid by a junction with the West Midland Line of the Great Western Railway at or near the Kidderminster Station with all works and conveniences connected therewith.
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|colspan="2" || style="text-align:center;" |'''General Specification'''
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| style="vertical-align:top; width: 20%;" | 1. The contractor to execute all works <br><br><br><br><br><br>To supply all materials &c || The contractor shall to the satisfaction of the Engineer in a workmanlike substantial and lasting manner construct and execute all the Works herein mentioned and specified or referred to whether temporary or permanent including all contigent and incidental works and shall construct and execute all the said Works, and in the manner and according to the directions and provisions herein respectively as delineated on the Drawings enumerated herein after mentioned specified or referred to or in any detailed or modified Specifications Drawings Plans Sections or written instructions which may from time to time be given to the Contractors by the Engineer, and in and for the construction and execution of the said works, the Contractor shall provide and supply all the materials plant articles and things which according to this specification are to be provided by the Contractor or which may be requisite or proper for the due performance of the works and of all the kinds descriptions and qualities specified in or to be inferred from this Specification and the Drawings or from any detailed Specification Plans Drawings Sections or written instructions as aforesaid of the best and most proper kinds or descriptions respectively to the satisfaction of the Engineer, and shall also find and provide all labour tools plant and machinery requisite or proper for the due performance of the work, and in executing the same shall perform fulfill obey and abide by all the directions provisions terms and conditions of this Specification and the Drawings and of any such detailed Specifications and written instructions as aforesaid and shall be subject to the several liabilities and obligations in case of default herein mentioned it being the intention of these Presents that the Contractor shall do execute and provide in accordance with this Specification everything requisite or proper for the entire performance of the said Works.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" | 10. Contractor to maintain the works during progress<br>And indemnify company from damage to roads &c<br><br>And from failure from bad workmanship &co c for 12 months || The Contractor shall during the progress of the respective works maintain and keep the same in good and compete condition and working order and repair and reinstate all injuries and damages thereto however caused and shall also bear and pay and indemnify the Company from and against all damages loss penalties costs and expenses which they may sustain or be put to by reason of the death of or injury to any person or persons whomsoever occasioned by the Construction of the works or arising from any act or default of the Contractor or which may result from the stoppage of traffic on any Railway, Canal, road or public thoroughfare or from or through the stoppage of any watercourse and if within the period of twelve months from the completion of the work and acceptance thereof by the Engineer any failure should arise from bad workmanship or defective materials (excepting the permanent way materials) or should any defect or deficiency be discovered in the works or should any damages be thereby occasioned to any person or persons or to Railways Canals watercourses lands roads footpaths drains telegraphs or sewers or any other matter or thing the Contractor shall forthwith at his own expense remedy and make good any such failure or defect and shall indemnify the Company against all liabilities claims and demands whatsoever by or on the part of any person or persons whomsoever who may sustain damage or inconvenience from or whose interests may be affected by any such failures defects or deficiencies.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" | 12. To make arrangements with owners<br><br>Pay all damage<br><br>Indemnify Company || The Contractor shall make definite arrangements with the Owners of property in respect of all land or property taken used or entered upon for any temporary purposes and shall pay all damages compensation and purchase or other moneys that may become payable in respect thereof or in respect of trespass on and damage to any adjoining or contiguous properties or in respect of the exercise for such temporary purposes as aforesaid and (as such Agent) of any of the powers of the Acts of Parliament before referred to and will indemnify the Company therefrom and from all losses costs claims and damages charges and expenses on account thereof or in relation thereto and if the said Company shall at any time be called upon to pay any such monies the sums so paid or which the said Company shall be liable to pay shall be charged to the Contractor as so much money paid to him on account of his Contract or at the option of the said Company may be recovered by them from the Contractor as a debt due by the Contractor to the said Company.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" | 13. Differences in drawings || Should there appear hereafter to be any discrepancy between measurements by scale on the drawings and the figured or written dimensions the figured or written dimensions shall be taken as correct and drawings made to larger scales and those showing particular parts of any work shall be taken as more correct than those made to smaller scales and for more general purposes.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" | 14. Contractor to see to form of surface &c || The Contractor must satisfy himself as to the form of the surface the nature of the soil and of all matters and things and any information which may be obtained from the Engineer or from any of his Agents shall not relieve the Contractor from any risk or from the fulfilment of his Contract or incidental works not particularly mentioned in the specification but which from the nature of the works included in the Contract may be required whether temporary or permanent.
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| style="vertical-align:top;" | 15. Engineer may alter work || The whole of the works shall be commenced and carried on at such places as the Engineer may direct and the mode of execution shall be under the control direction and supervision of and to be carried out to the satisfaction of the Engineer who shall have full power to enlarge alter diminish or omit any part of the works herein specified and to alter the line and levels of the Railway as he may think fit and it is to be distinctly understood that the Engineer shall have full power to alter modify enlarge or diminish the works now intended without any such deviation vitiating the Contract and all such alterations shall be valued at the rates contained in the schedule of prices annexed hereto and added to or deducted from the Contract sum as the case may be.
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