The Text

In all contracts for materials or work upon the canals, no bid shall be rejected for informality until the party or parties making it shall have had notice to correct such informality ; and no alteration of the plan or of any specification shall be made before or after the execution of any contract, except with the consent of the commissioners of the canal fund and of the superintendent of public works, or a majority of them ; but this section shall not be held to continue the contract system, or prevent the superintendent of public works or the Legislature from adopting any other mode of doing the public work.