New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-08-17
SPECIFICATIONS for the CONTRACT for pax

SPECIFICATIONS for the contract for paw
ing with square block stones Natchez street from Camp
QUALITY AND DMEssIoss OF MArERIALs.-The square
To he oe as o %
long shape not less than eleven inches than four
than twenty inches in length and from nine inches
nSknesi ss They hey s shall be well having parallel
fa BE aonn % s and free s Of am The
say the stones shall be cut IT. 4. nn
angle @ Of fo[yaye degrees With the side be laid dago
The gutter shall be Of good hard granite any
ny shall Be- to rtysx 1ches one Ssp
inches in width and ten inches in thickness They shall be
make aud 5e pee %e sH sStG Ss
The shall BE- Of North liver blue stones perfectly
well and dressed bevs dressed on the the
to inches deep and in no less than four inches
The gravel best of London gravel not over one
and half inch in diameter.
MANNER WHICH THE WORK Shall. BE- ExEcUrED-The
shall ake up the old eurbones whenever oreret
The curbsones sAa be set according the
like They shall be duly inerspersed in lengths Of
from three six feet throughout The work. each
towards the adjoining sidewalk, and be soliy
shall be nicely through the by the
required by the Street Commissioner
shall @ ns laid with an inclination slope towards The Of
sharp mixed said bottomng to be strongly hardened IN
I, til solid, with the head of the crowbar,
after the same shall have been hauled by him shall pick
@ % grfSe be s a Of hs m % the
the face Of the square blocks when laid The conrac
BY the Surveyor and shah place the of the on
no s na Than Sp nGG 1 % # SndoH % 5 @ M h%p s"n
it forms 1 an even yen and M hard foundation The square block
tractor shall Jay the blocks diasonaly angle forty
ye from the street line breaking joints with tier
The same in order thai each block solid aton
He will all lay the blocks they touch and make
P1syey be 5 rejected BY the Street When the
gfaye and sharp sand and the paving shall be rolled with
D IN % 'f @ Of Fs 4e1 h nce s 5
sand mixed shall be placed upon the paving and the same Shall
GENERAL CAusEsThe old curb and guerstoues the old
ou % ND stone and the earth picked from the street Shall
pc e property oil the contractor and shall be hauled away by
All the materials shall quality shall
nished by the contractor well as the labor:
The contractor shall bound begin the work within the
Common Council and to complete the same sixty days after said
every day thereafter the same is not completed.
ana solvent security to an amount Of two thousand five
PAYMENTS be by the property holders the certia
Of me ew city charter aud to be collected BY the contractors
bills should the paid and the be
oSsd to all the Of the city to sue 9 ssize the properly
The cGnraeof M shall into the City Treasury prior
e @ bent sS OF wt d s @ sU1 3
tractor shall have the right of demanding Of said petitioners the
well understood that failure by the contractor
TO begin or finish the wolk thereof within the period
fixed in the Council dissatisfied with the
winch the work being executed the Council shall have the
right to an the without putting the contractor in de-
ian Ms required by article 1905 Of the Civil Code and without
Applying TO OF annu the and without in
uem aud is also well understood that in the conrRc
tor shall any time abandon his finish and
pe the same in conformity with his the said
tosa forfeit al claims he may have for part OF the
done by h up to the date of The abandonment and thsthe
Guy snail be thereby discharged from and all liability there
Tor and saso we'll understood that The contract lie
eSo the contractor and his securities shall be held and bound
III udo TO unto the city all loss difference between the
price ut which the originally contracted to perform
ING work, and the price which it be adjUdicaed
sale or reHdjulicatiOn
BIDS to be superficial square block paving
piete per superficial foot furnished and laid and
per running foot of gutter stones furnished and laid.
New Oreans, July 27lh 1857.
LSgnedl Louis II. PILE, City Surveyor.
Approved by the Committees Streets and Landings o. both
Boards 0s the Common Council.
[SgnedI H. r VENNARD. },,,
- lSguedl JOHN L. HOLLAND, o"'
Registered, August TO- 1851
HENRY DUREI.
anil lS II 10 q Clerk OF Comptroller.