New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-19
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, ing with block stones Dorsier street from Custom
nV oSArY AND baEssross OF THE square
blocks shall be Of good hard granite not respect inferior
ssn Inches III Width we
hs Ty 5 hs IN
Sa square fiat and free = Jumps The
blocks adjoining the shall be pa red per &
81 forty degrees With the side laid diagonay
from the eurbstones bordering the side walks
pees Inferior in quality he granite Strained from Boston
they shall be we'll qnared having parallel square
and s as anal @ % aa n sP sh BE- be
The cubsone shall be North river blue perfectly
slope the Sides from three long and from eighteen
inches deep and in no case less than four inches
The gravel shall be Of the best of London gravel
one and half inch in diameter.
MASsER WHICH WoRk SHALL Be ExEcurED-The con-
the old curbstones whenever
Dc y the and substitute tit in their
IKE
shall have slope Of thres inches for Of its height
in the Aperures for draining lots shall
be nicely cut through the by the contractor wherever
gutter shall join in their length the curboHe
s o % % o nehep the
sharp sand said botomng be strongly hardened with
The contractor viii take up the old round stone paving and
after the shall hays been hauled away by MIN shall pick
to be by Surveyor depth fourteen inches
shall the road bed d the to be given by
the Surveyor and shall place the the oag
shall thoroughly roll the same With roller
ing Sa hen laying the paving Ss
lay the blocks dagonay angle of forty degrees from
ding blocks hardening under the same
order that each block may rest on solid Foundation He will
joints all joints oyer half an inch width shall most posi-
laid joints shall accurately filed with fine gravel
sharp sand mixed and the paving shall be rolled with 900
into The joints covering Of three inches of fine gravel and
sharp sand mixed shall be placed upon the paving and the
GENERAL cLAusEsThe old curbsones the old gutter ones,
the old round and the earth picked from the
shall be the property OF the contractor and be hauled
shall be of the quality
nislled by the contractor as well as the labor.
days following the approval of the adjudication by the Com
mS G under and pe1 sp dn ss EACH
every day thereafter the same is not completed ,oo
qred to guarantee The faithful performance Of the
eat, Y G sea BE ds By the m hdss aeo ID
Of the new city charter and to be collected BY the
bills should the same not be paid and to be Sub
rogaed all the rights of the city to seize the property
shall the City Treasury
Property being we'll nnderstood TINT said
Shall have the right demanding of said petitioners the
il is we'll that in case Of failure by the contractor
t the 3 h
in which it being the Council shall Rave the right
to annu the contract without putting the in default
required by article 1905 of the civil code without apply
ing Of justice annu the and without nde
ty and is also well understood that in the
shall time abandon his contract finish and complete
the work in conformity with his contract the said
shall forfeit all claims he may have for any of the work
done by him the date of the abandonment and that the
city shall be thereby discharged from and all liability
therefor and is also well understood that in the
tract be resod his shall he held
and bound in sodo unto the city all losses difference
between the price which the originally
TO perform the work. and the price which be adud
| Gated at resale or REHABILITATION.
Bids be superficial yards the square block paving
complete including the guttersones pes superficial
| of curbstones furnished and laid.
| New Orleans, Aug. 1At, 1857.
[signedl LOUIS Fl. PILE, City Surveyor.
Approved by the Committees Landings
| Boards of the Common Council.
| [Signedl II. 7. VENNARD, }u,
tsisnedl JOHN f. HOLLAND, 'h"rnien'
| Registered Aug. 10TH b1. HENRY DUREL,
| au Ii IL II 10 81 Clerk of Comptroller