New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-24
CPECIFICATIoNs FOR THE CoNrR

SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE CONTRACT
evee opposite Canal Two donbsarns iae
Force Pumps or force pumps Of other patent character
each force pump to Be capable Of lifting and furnishing 1900
ea Ths ss wS e a II 0 H. and
Ions OF water per hour the lift to be twenty feet and forty
or unusual pressure in boilers = se'S
The spaces allotted in the building for the pumps and boilers
Two separate beds foundations pumps engines each
With hight of seventeen fest = 'si's oDs'
Two beds foundations boilers eleven feet
There VIM be required doctor engine with boiler etc., Of suf
I Sa g ~ e. e bSsF
e,er anddscagc pipe thirty inches each pumps having
e pamp u work es ssead and be IL lie most
An bright work of raid pumps engines to be neatly I'm
Shed and other work 70 be well painted the Surveyor may
The number and capacity Of each set of boilers sufficient
Said boilers Or snch pattern and construction as win ena
bic the raising Of steam to working space Of time
far started and 70 consume little fuel possible to obtain
Each 81 boilers will have an iron chimney Of proper hh
and diameter 70 give gerfse. drai and shall be Of h
have steam drum and drum and wrought supply pipe 10
geer with safety valve and cheek valve furnace fronts gates
steam and water guage breeding ard chmney etc. whole
The whole shall be executed to the entire satisfaction
Landings delivered to the city in perfect running order
he snail & s Il tic bs saay and shall d
The contractor shall bind himss t. begin the work nme
diatey after the completion Of the iron building to contain The
same and shall also bind himself complete the work within
sixty days after under penalty of hundred dollars per y
Tor each and day thereafter the not completed
Security to amount Of thousand dollars shall be re-
qned to guarantee he faithful performance the contract
faynents IN cash on the completion Of the work
Of the same by the City Surveyor and the Committees
of II Streets 4. and Landings Of The Common Council.
well understood that In Of failure by contractors
begin or finish the work Or any part thereof within the period
which ne work y being executed the Council shall have the
default required by article 1905 of the Civil Code and with
out applying 70 court Of Justice annu the and without
indemnity and 1t Is also well understood that in case he con-
tractors shall at time abandon the work. finish and
complete the in conformity with contracts e sad
contractors shall forfeit all claims they may have for any mart
the work done by them to the date Of the Abandonment
and that the city shall be thereby discharged from any and a
nahay therefor and Is also well understood in case The
be reod the contractors and their securities shall Be
nee ana bound IN soldo TO unto the city all loss differ
snes between the prices at which the originally con
raeed 70 perform the work. and the prices which they NAV
be adludieated at resale re-adiudication
Blds TO be for the work finished and set corunlete
New Orleans, Feb i, 1860
tsgnedi LOUIS H. PILE,
Il ~, ~ Lad ...5 City Surveyor.
Boards of the Common Council. - ~
lsignedl ROBERT HUYGHE, e,.,-.,..
pa..,a,s.ss # 4. VEaNARD, oha'rInen'
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