New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-05-01

SPECIFICATIONS for the contract for IN W
- ing with block First street from Magazine 70
QuAIrr AND DIMENSIONS or rnK MarERIA1s-Tbs .ou.re
IN quail ~ to the granite obtained from Boston, They shall be
inches IN width and twelve nor more than
inches long and not less than nine inches thickness They
shall be well quarred having parallel square es and ends
SO as TO make light joints aud the shall dressed souar
shall be angle foydve degrees win The
sides 50 as 70 DO laid dagonaly from the bordering
The gutter of good hard granite obtained from
shall be well QuAred having parallel square and ends
hewed and dressed, otherwise they shall De rejected.
eaa9 stones shall DC o. North river blue stones perfectly
shape Of the sides from three six feet long shteen to
ssn'' woe ana III no case less than four inches in
The gravel shall be Of the best London gravel one
and half inch IN diameter The shells shall be and
sound lake shells The sand shall be clear sharp Of large
MANNER IN WHICH rHs woRK SHALL BE ExroUrKn-Tba
shall take up The old curb wherever ordered
stones md shall also place curb stones wherever are
o se he% ero stones hs be set according to the lines
workmaaike manner They shall be duly inerspersed in
curb stone shall have slope Of three inches for every foot
~ height towards the adjoining sidewalk and shall
ohd liked and backed in the approved manner Amer
lures for draining lots shall be nicely through tie same by
existing sidewalks which may be found dps9
BY me Surveyor shall be regulated aud ead by the
The gutter shall in their length the curb stones
ana snail be laid with an inclination ope towards
Of one inch bottoming Of out London gravel or
lake shells and sharp sand mixed sd boomn be- strongly
hardened with the head of The crowbsr until solid.
The contractor shall take up the old wooden cutters and
shall pick and grade the surface Of the street. accordance
with the grades given by the Surveyor o depfb Of %
nehe below face Of the square blocks when
the curve to be given by the surveyor shall place on the
op o. the same selling Of not less than four inches Of London
gravel or lake sh Ills and sharp sand Mixed and shall tho
roughly roll the with sd0b roller unt il forms an
and hard foundation The square paving shall then
be laid In laying the paving. the contractor Shall ay the
blocks disganey a. angle Of forty degrees with The
the blocks aud hardening the materials under tho in order
ha each block may rest on solid foundation He shall use
All lay the blocks As they touch and make close
joints As all joints over half inch in width shall posi-
the joints shall be accurately allied with gravel and sharp
800 b. lcer After he ran 6ss sleS KY IS aSe Wan nn
nee INTO the joints covering OF three in hes of fne gravel
sans shall be rpened for travel
SEsEeAL cLAgsEs-Ths old wooden cutters and the earth
picked from the street shall be the property OF the
and shall be hanled away by aim.
All the materials shall be of the best quality sh III be
furnished by the contractor, IS well ms the labor.
The contractors shall be bound begin The work
Council and complete the aftsr under
peeAy o. ten dollars day for each and day thereafter
Good and solvent security 5000 shals be re
qpired for the faithful performance Of the contract
Payments follows o-wit On the completion Of each and
eyery block the sum Of s. Is running foot DO paid
holders the certificates OF the Surveyor Conformity with
contractor the city not 10 be held liable or reponsb for
any OF said bills should the be paid and the
the property in Of of all of said bills
Iee contractor shah Into the CITY Treasury prior
eeng his certificates the cost OF publication Of the petitions
the property holders being well understood thar sad con
tractor shall have the right Of demanding petitioners the
reimbursement Of said cost Of publication
well Understood that in failure BY the
10 begin or finish the work thereof within
period Fixed in the Council DO dissatisfied with she
manner in which the work being executed the Council shall
have the right annu the contract without putting
tractor in default required BY article 1905 OF Civil Code
and without applying TO court Of justice annnl
and without indemnity and il is well understood
case the contractor shall time abandon the
anish and complete the in conformity with his contract
he said eonactOr shall forfeit all he may have for any
part Of the work done by him up Of the abandon
and that the city shall be thereby discharged any
hs Az liability theteor and is also we'll understood that in
case the contract be reod the securities
hs be held and bound in soldO pay the CITY ali los
herence between the price which the origin
ally contracted TO perform the work the price at which
may be adjudicated at resale re-Adjndeation
BIOS 70 Dc per superficial yard Of square block paving FUR
slshed and laid including the gutter stones and per
foot Of cnrb stones furnished aud laid.
New Orleans, April q 1855
lSignedl LOUIS II. PILE, City Surveyor
Approved BY the Committees Streets aud Landings Of
both boards Of the Comnon Council =
tSigpedl JNO. e. HOLLAND.
issnsd H. !. yENSxRD. chairnen'
HENRY DURRI..
myl Clsrk Of Comptroller