New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-23

y foF The Construction Of Plank Road on the east side q
Claiborne from the New Canal 10 the upper limit of the
whole of the roadway which is thirty feet in width shall
BY the City Surveyor the contrac filling the where
low and picking and hauling away the dirt where too high
panked in the following manner o.wt Five strings of mud
of the best mill cypress shall sound panks
@ By rT wsye ncs w tas feet
than ten inches and shall be prmed down at the ends
walls Of 1--WE with inch cypress pins
four feet long and driven aang Or at an aPge Of sixty de-
more than i've feet from centres and that the section
blanks and sls shalt rest on wei rammed bottomng Of dry
river three inches thick. The spaces between The sis
o e s hem
panEs shall The hard eoS FROM
and from all defects calculated impair their strength
and twenty feet long assured in the work They TO be
close sc e well 5 tied and oe PKsd with S
tesecon the centre M and the whole road shall be well
XII S sha S shall be
Ts R ss n eli the @ the work in
days following the approval of the adjudication by the
after under penalty dollars per day for each every
day ~, thereafter the same is not completed ..
feet good repair and condition and during year after
eOHdition the Gy Treasurer viii san Ten per- cent Of
n be Sd S M city d 4 ct S s rd5
be then found in perfect good order and condition. otherwise it
Good and solvent security of $3.50 shall be
qured guarantee faithful performance contract
Payment be made the completion of the work
ceptance of the the City Surveyor follows towt
the proportion TO BE- paid by the property in bills against
said propeyhoes to be made by the City Surveyor in
fomity with section 10 of the City Charter said bills
be collected by the who shall be subrogaed all the
rights of the city and seize the property in of
payment of all of said bills and the city OF New Orleans
be held liable responsible for of said bills should
the not be paid.
The contractor shall pay into the City Treasury, prior
receiving his certificates of publication of the petit
the property holders it being well understood said
contractor shall have the right of demanding of said petition
the reimbursement of said cost of publication.
The whole work shs be executed the entire satisfaction
the City Surveyor who shall be the sole judge the quality
the same
MISUNDERSTOOD failure by the contractors
begin finish the work any part thereof within Pc
in which the work being executed the Council shall have the
right anuul the without putting the
default required by article 1905 of the Civil Code and with
applying of justice Rnnu the and without
tractors shall any time abandon he work finish
complete the in conformity wl their contracts the said
shall forfeit all claims they have for
the work done by them the of the abandonment
that the city shall be thereby discharged from and all liza
bty therefor and is also we'll understood that
held and bound in soido pay the city all loss differ
between the price which the originally
tracted perform the work and the price which may be ad
Indicated at resale or REHABILITATION.
Bids to be running foot for the whole work complete
New Orleans April II, 1861.
lsignedl LOUIS H. PILE, City Surveyor.
Approved by the Committees Streets and Landings of both
Boards of tho Common Council.
s ssnsdj Btsi kfNG HAEEt5soN chanen.
ALFRED A. DUCROs,
AL l2 For Comptroller.