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Report of New Buildings Committee on Rotunda Restoration contracts:

The New Buildings Committee met on this date at 11 o'clock to receive bids
for construction of marble work, terrace paving, roofing and sheet metal work
on the Rotunda Restoration.

There were present Hollis Rinehart, Chairman, Lewis C. Williams and C.
O'Conor Goolrick, Also President Newcomb, S. J. Makielski, Consulting Architect
and G. B. Hazelgrove, Resident Engineer.

The following preamble and resolutions were adopted:

WHEREAS, pursuant to advertisement, bids for the construction of
Marble work, Terrace paving, Roofing and Sheet metal work have been filed by
the following bidders: Vermont Marble Company, Georgia Marble Company,
Marsteller Corporation, Vickery Stone Company of Indiana, Bailey Plumbing &
Heating Company, Brown and Taylor and N. W. Martin & Bro.

and that said bids have been duly received, opened and publicly read:

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the bids listed in the preamble hereof be
filed and presented to S. J. Makielski, Consulting Architect, and that the
said S. J. Makielski is hereby directed forthwith to tabulate said bids, and at
the earliest practicable moment, report to this New Buildings Committee of the
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia his findings as to the lowest
and best bids.

Report of Consulting Architect:

I., S. J. Makielski, Consulting Architect, pursuant to Resolution
heretofore adopted, having examined and tabulated all of the bids submitted for
the several classes of work on the Restoration of the Rotunda, Docket Va.
1312-F, make the following recommendations to the New Buildings Committee of
the Rector and Visitors.

       
CONTRACT NO. 20  Furnishing and setting of all marble to Georgia Marble
Company of Nelson, Ga., for 
$65,200.00 
CONTRACT NO. 21  Furnishing and setting all stone flagging to N. W.
Martin & Bro. of Charlottesville, Va. for 
$4,550.00. 
CONTRACT NO. 22  Roofing, Waterproofing and Sheet Metal Work to N. W.
Martin & Bro., Charlottesville, Va. for 
$4,340.00 
Total  $74,090.00 
(Signed) S. J. Makielski,
Consulting Architect.

On motion, duly made and seconded, it was

RESOLVED, That the awards as above recommended be approved.

On motion, duly made seconded it was

RESOLVED, That we recommend to the Regional Director of Public Works
Administration that the $3,000 allocated to engineering and supervision in the
Control Estimate be transferred to Construction Fund (3#) in the Control Estimate.

(Signed) E. I. Carruthers,
Secretary.

On motion, the foregoing report of the New Buildings Committee was ratified
and confirmed, and J. L. Newcomb, President, was authorized and directed to execute said
contracts in the name and for and on behalf of the Rector and Visitors of the University
of Virginia.