New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-07
the contracts for widening and ceanlnt
Camp street, Melpomene and Canal street Canals
and also the ditch on Claiborne street.

Concerning the contracts for widening and cleanlns
Camp street, Melpomene and Canal street Canals,
and also the ditch on Claiborne street.
VT work shall be adiudicnted into separate and
a distinct contracts as follows, to witt
stContract, Camp street Canal, from Clio street
Felicity road.
I'd Contract Melpomene Canal, from Camp street
Canal to Claiborne Canal, 4.5.,
Sd Contract Canal street Canal from Claiborne
street TO Hagan avenue Canal.
4lh Contract Claiborne street ditch from Canal Ca
rondelei 10 Canal street Canal,
Camp street Canal shall have ten feet in width the
Top, five feet in width al the bottom, six feet in depth
below the level of The cutters al Clio street and eli
city road and feet in depth below the level oihe
cutters al Mepomene street. with regular descent
from both Clio street and Felicity road 10 Mepomene
street
aelpomene Canal shall have twenty feet in width at
the top aud feet Width al The bottom, in all that
part comp rsed between Camp Canal and Dry
AIDES street, and twenty-five fee, the top and fifteen
feet in width the BOTTOM in all that paft comprised
between Dryudes street and Claiborne street Canui,
and Shall have depth Of seven feet below the level of
the cutters Camp street. and depth of eight feet
below The surface Of the lowest ground at Claiborne
street, with reg ular descent from to the other.
Canal Canal shall have thirty feet III width at
the top twenty feet in width at the bottom, feet
in depth below the level Of the cutters Claiborne
street and eight in depth below The surface
lowest ground Aagan avenue with regulardeseent
Claiborne street ditch shall have eigh, feet in width
the top, four feet IL width at The bottom, four feet
depth below The levels Of The CUTTERS Canal Caro-
deIe, and Ave in depth beoy The Level of The gut
Canal street, Win ular descent from
the other.
The sides ard bottoms Of said canals and ditch shall
be neatly cut, smooth and esstd, according 10 the
lines and grades 10 be given by the City Surveyor and
all dirt, slumps, roots, shall be at least
Ave The sides OF said canals and shall belong
| 10 the city.
All bridges across said canals and all ratings on the
sides of said CANALS which may be disturbed dam
aged by The contractors, shall be repaired by said
tractors before any settlement be made
The contractors shall bind themselves 10 have all
1 dams constructed by Them open every night,
prevent the water f1om backing nlo iae cutters OF The
| city,
The contractors shall bind themselves 10 begin the
days after the approval OF the adjudication by
the Common Council, Otherwise the contracts shall,
pso facio be null and void; and they shall also bind
themselves 10 have the work completed i'll the follow
ing times, TO wit; the Camp steel Canal in forty days.
the hIelpomene Canal III nIaety days. the Canal steel
Canal IN ninety days, and the Claiborne street ditch
twenty days-otheFwise they shul be liable fine of
per day for each and every day thereafter it
completed
Securities shall be required as follows. 10 wit: in
The sum of $500 rem the contractor for Camp street
Canal; in the sum of S2900 from the contractor for
| Melpomene Canal; in the sum of $3.50 from the con-
tractor for Canal stree, Canal and in The of 500
| from The contractor for Inc Claiborne street &itch
In case of neglect the part any of the CONTRACT
tors 10 comply strictly with the foregoing specfca-
lions the Council reserves the right to declare tho
u Of justice. and without iademifying con-
| tractor.
Payments in cash on the completion of each and