New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-10
SPECIFICATIONS

CONCERNING the contracts for widening and cieanIng
Camp street, Mel pomene and Canal street Cana s
and also the ditch on Claiborne street.
YEEHE work shall be adudicated into separate and
| H. distinct contracts as follows, to wit:
Felicity road
I'd Contract. Melpomene Canal, from Camp street
Canal 10 Claiborne Canal.
Sd Contract. Canal street Canal from CIaibnrne
street 10 Hagan avenue Canal
4h Contract. Claiborne street ditch, from Canal Ca
rondelel TO Canal street Canal.
Camp street Canal shall have ten feet in width nj the
top 1--WE feet in width the bottom, six feet in dc plh
below the level of the cutters at Clio and eli
city road and seven feet in eph below The level of The
cutters al Melpomene street, with regular descent
from both Clio street and Felicity road 10 Meponene
street.
Mepomene Canal shall have twenty feet in W dth at
the top and ten feet in width the bottom in all that
part comprised between Camp street Canal and Dry
AIDES street, and twenty-five feet the Top and fifteen
feet in width al the bottom, in all that part comprised
between Dryades street and Claiborne street Calial
and shall have depth of feet below the level OF
the cutters al Camp street, and depth of eight feet
below the surface OF the lowest ground Claiborne
street, with reg uar descent from 10 the other.
Canal street Canal shall have thirty feet in width at
The top, twenty feet in width at the bottom, feet
in depth below the level of The cutters al Claiborne
street, and eight feet in depth below the surface of the
lowest ground at Hagan avenue, with regular descen
from one TO the other.
Claiborne ditch shall have eight feet in width
al the top four feet in width at the bolton, in
depth below the Levels Of the cutters Canal Caron-
deet, and five feet in depth below the level OF the gut
ers al Canal street, with reg ular descent from
! the other
| The sides and bottoms of said canals and ditch shall
| be neatly cut, smooth and dressed, according 10 The
lines and grades 10 be given by the City Surveyor and
all dirt stumps, roots, etc, shall be least
five feet from the sides of said canals, and shall belong
| 10 the CITY,
All bridges said canals and all ratings on The
sides OF said canals which be disturbed dam
aged by the contractors, shall be repaired by said
| tractors before any settlement be made.
| The contractors shall bind themselves to have all
dams constructed by them open every night, TO
prevent the wafer from backing into the cutters the
| city.
The contractors shall bind themselves 10 begin the
work ten days after the approval of the adjudication by
| the Common Council, Otherwise The contracts shall
pso to- be null and void; and they shall also bind
themselves TO have the work completed in the follow
ing times wit: the Camp Canal in forty days.
the Melpomene Canal in ninety days. the Canal street
Canal ninety days, and the Claiborne street ditch i'll
twenty days-oherwise they shall be liable 10 a fine of
$40 per day for each and every day thereafter it
| completed
Securities shall be required as follows, TO wit: in
The sum of $500 from the contractor for Camp street
Canal; in the Of $1,000 from the contractor for
Melpomene Canal in the sum of S25oU from the CON
tractor for Canal street Canal and in the sum of 500
from The contractor for the Claiborne street ditch
In case OF neglect the part OF any of the contrac
tors 10 comply strictly with the foregoing spechca
| lions the Council reserves the right 10 declare the
contract, pso aco, null and void, without applying TO
court OF Justice, and without ndemnifying The con-
| tractor.
Payments in cash on The completion of each and
every contract and the acceptance the work by the
City Surveyor
Bids to be per running Of 2as feet for each con-
New Orleans, 5,h December, 1855. z.
~.- LOUIS H. PILE,
| City Surveyor.
Approved by the Committee on Streets and Landings
of The Board of Aldermen, New Orleans 9th Decem-
| Der. 1855.
tsignedl CHAs. PRIDE, Chairman.
Approved by the Committee Streets and Landings
Of the Board OF Assistant Aldermen, New Orleans, 9Th
December, 1855.
| d73t Chairman.