New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-18

SPECIFICATIONS for the contracts for
Canal Canal and The side Of ohppsw wa street.
aGFsFiRsr GosTRAeI sidewalks on both
sides Of johnson street. from the New Canal to Canal street,
SECOND sidewalks the east side Of ooip
s s ~di from Josephine to Washington street. to be eight
CuRBsroNEs-Hewed and dressed curbsones shall line the
good quality with them beveed dressed the top to answer
Thirty vide four i they shall Sn we'll se
lots shall be duly lengths o hree
viii be given By suryeso and each
adjoining houses shall also be oldiy
and backed il the most
ssnes in this res ect and no enbstones less than four
than inches below the upper surface Of adjoining gutter
shall be admitted in the work
mill twelve inch wide By four inches thick
Tsp sc Sesss
The enngs piansd there and At every of
in driven suitable augur holes in the
es the shall be to suit and on M
outside edge it's to have notehes Of eight inches long
Of no, les than four feet long eight inches
WS ' A sa'sd
s Se
5oomD Be Iy liver saudi four inches hick and so
IDLY beSdsd before the pins are TIE top edge Of the
face Of the gutter plank AID the latter shall be laid with
slope of inch towards the Wooden
draining lots ,hall be built the They
shall be four inches wide by eight inches deep and shall be
bottom with two by four inches pieces the top keep
the sides from being Displaced and i'd gutes shat,
through the whole width of the sidewalks.
BRICK PAvEMENT.-The walk avemen shall be laid with
lake bricks OF the best quality in herring bone, bed of
lake sand other sand of equally god quality with It,
sshes generally called blue bily' The joints between
the bricks shall be well filled with sharp sand and coating Of
half an inch thick spread the VIII lie surface OF the brick
broken and well rammed aud made level and graded
smoothly with declyity slope towards the outline
haf an inch per foot The ground where two low shall bs
@ up o e at his expense and well ramned
an inch OF sharp sand blue bills under the byck and
said bricks shall be properly bedded herring bone
regularly laid In close joints without any rugged
places SO that the pavement will bear sightedge otherwise
GENERAL CLAUSES The lie work shall be executed to
the entire OF the City Sureyo who will
| judge Of the quality Of the work
All the materials shall be of the best quality and shall
furnished by the contractors, well as the
The Contractors shall be bound begin
days following the approval of the aducatio Comm
Gounc and complete the three after
penalty Of dollars day for each and
the Is not completed.
Good aud solvent security in the of 81 900
1uired sm each of the contractors the
performance of their contracts.
Payne b, made the completion of the work.
ceptanco the by tho City follows
the proportion be paid by the city IN Cash. and the proportion
paid the hoers IN bills against said property
holders be made by the City Surveyor in conformity with
section l9 of city charter said bills 70 be collected by
city and seiz. the in case OF OF
all Of said bills and the city Of New Orlesns not 10 bd
held liable responsible for OF said bills should the same
1 not be paid.