New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-19
SPECIFICATIONS

For attending all the Nuisance oats and wharyes of
the city.
FEyaE contractor shall receive the said nuisance
i'll boats and wharves in whatever condition they
may be found at the time OF entering into contract
This bid shall include The cost and expense per annnm
of all men, implements and fixtures, and all necessary
repairs Of the boats implements, fixtures, neces-
sary to work said boats in an expeditions manner
He shall be prepared al all times, day night TO
ceve, and shall receive and convey and discharge into
the current of the river all oia manure filth dead an
imas and fecuent matter of whatsoever kind. When
ever by reason of winds or current any OF the things
discharged in the channel of the river have tendency
TO lodge against any bank Of the river, any wharf or
vessel ne SHALL with men and skitts, cause said mat
Ter or things 10 be lowed again into the current of the
river, so that no part thereof shall lodge or remain
within the corporate limits of the city of NewOreans
He shall furnish man and one skf at the nuisance
or blood wharf of the Fourth District push off and
tow out into the current all floating matters that may
be discharged thererom into the river.
The Council the right 10 remove any of the
nuisance wharves from their present locations they
proper; and in case of removal, the contractor
shall be at the expense of removing The boats and fix
lures.
At the expiration of the contract the contractor
shall return to the city all the said nuisance boats
their implements and fixtures, in good state of re.
pairs.
Payments will be made monthly on the Street Com
mssoners certificate, reserving five per the
expiration Of the contract said five per cent payable
only on final certificate, after inspection, 10 the
state of repairs Deductions shall be made from each
monthly certificate of ten dollars for each and every
shall be proved 10 the satisfaction of the Street
from depositng in the nuisance boats anything proper
to be deposited therein than fifteen minutes fun
avoidable accidents only excepted, and the same
amount Of fine for each and every time that said con-
tractor, by neglect shall allow any of the oal other
offensive matter 10 lodge remain aginst any bank of
the wharf yesse Within The corporate limits
OF the city
In of any gross neglect the part OF the con-
tractor the Street Commissioner shall have the right
declare The contract ipso faco null and void, wilhou,
recourse 10 any court, and without any indemnity 10
the contractors and the street Commissioner shall then
have the right to put men i'll charge of the work. al
the expense of the contractor and his securities.
Security shall be given in the sum of one thousand
dollars. satisfactory 10 the Finance Committees, con.
ditoned for the faithful performance of the contract
The sale shall be for year from the expiration
of the present contract; the payments 10 commence
from the time the contractor actually commences The
work
The City Council the right 10 reject any
adjudication made by virtue of these specifications if
they deem it advisable,
New Orleans December IL. 1855 s@I-
AUG S. PHELPS.
deelS-5t Street Commissioner |