The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-09

City Hall, Room No. 7, Basement Floor,
New Orleans, July 80, 1868.
SPECIFICATIONS OF CONTRACT FOR BURYING THE
INDECENT DEAD AND CONVEYING TBB INDECENT
SICK TO HOSPITAL WITHIN THE CITY OF NEW
ORLEANS FOR ONE YEAR.
FIRST.
The contractor or contractors shall be bound
10 furnish the necessary number of horses aud
drivers requisite for the faithful performance of
said contract.
The four charity wagons, the property Of the
city, and now used for the above purpose, 10 be
delivered to said contractor or contractors 10
whatever condition they may be in, TO be returned
TO the said city upon expiration OF contract In the
same order and condition as received usual wear
and tear excepted the said contractor or con.
tractors hereby binding himself or themselves to
keep the said wagons in good order at his or their
expense during the continuance Of the said con-
tract, and also to furnish at bis or their expense
any additional number OF wagons. horses and
drivers as the emergency may at any time require.
r..f.- SECOND.
II shall be incumbent on the contractor or con.
tractors TO have wagon and driver at the police
stations of the First and Second Districts during
all hours of the day and night.
THIRD.
The city OF New Orleans is hereby bound to
furnish all collins that may be necessary for the
interment of the INDECENT dead deliverable at the
City Workhouse, and the contractor or contract
Der Of collins delivered to him or them for the
said purpose.
The city of New Orleans also being bound for
The amount of all sections fees, according to ex-
listing ordinances, and also TO furnish the ground
requisite for said burial.
FOURTH.
The said contractor or contractors are also
bound TO furnish, at their own expense, one com
petent person at the Office OF the street commits
siOner, City Hall, and one at the branch street
commissioners office, No. IS st. Peter street,
whose duty shah be to issue the necessary Ger.
ti6cates of death and orders for hospital, under
the direction of said street commissioner. aud to
attend TO all details in connection with said con-
tract.
FIFTH.
The city of New Orleans reserves the right Of
dscontnuiDg the different cemeteries in whichthe
bodies of said INDECENT dead shall be inferred and
also the hospitals to which said INDECENT sick shall
be conveyed by said contractor or contractors.
SIXTH.
The said contractor or contractors shall CON-
ply immediately with all certificates or orders
relative TO the interment of said INDECENT dead. or
conveyance of said INDECENT sick to the various
hospitals, under penalty of ten dollars for each
and every neglect, and further penalty Of the
amount of doing the work so neglected by the
contractor or contractors, which, in all cases. the
street commissioner will be bound to do or cause
to be done, at whatever cost he may be able to
procure the necessary vehicles AMI labor. The
amount Of the fines, the wages OF workmen and
cost Of vehicles to be deducted out of any of the
monthly payments TO be made to said contractors.
SEVENTH.
The contractor or contractors shall furnish good
and solvent security, TO an amount equal to the
amount of contract conditioned to guarantee the
faithful performance OF his or their contract.
EIGHTH.
Payments will be made monthly, upon the GER
tficate of the street commissioner, and the sun
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tifcate 10 guarantee until the expiration Of said
contract, which ten per cent. shall then be paid,
should the said contractor or contractors be found
to have faithfully complied with the terms Of his
or their contract by the said street commissioner,
jointly with the chairman of the committee OF
streets and landings; otherwise to be forfeited for
the use of the city.
NINTH.
The contract shall take effect and 60 into opera
ton Immediately after the adjudica tiOns are ap-
proved by the city authorities, and from the date
Of signing the same before the city notary.
TENTH.
II is well understood that in case of failure by
the contractor or contractors to begin or perform
the above work. or 10 case the city authorities be
dissatisfied with the manner in which the work is
being performed or executed, the said city anthO-
titles shall have the right to annul the contract
without putting the contractor or contractors in
default, as required by article 1905 OF the Civil
Code, and without applying to court of justice
is also well understood that in the contractor
contractors shall at any time abandon the work,
and not perform the same in conformity with his
or their contract the said contractor or contract
ors shall forfeit all claim they may have for any
portion Of the work performed up to the date OK
the abandonment. and that the city shall thereby
be discharged and released from any and al LA.
bility therefor, and 1t Is also well understood that
IN case the contract be resold the contractor or
contractors and his or their security, shall be held
and bound IN sOlido to pay unto the city all loss
or difference between the prices at which the con-
tractor or contractors originally contracted TO
perform the work, and the price at which 1t may
be sdjudieated at resale or read Indication.
Bids TO be so much per year.
The contract shall be sdiudcsted to the lowest
bidder, at the Office of the city controller, on
August 18th, 1865, Saturday noon.
(signed) JOSEPH MURPHY,
Street Commissioner.
Approved: T, h. SHIELDS,
Chairman Streets and Landings Board Aldermen.
GERALD FARRELL,
Chairman Streets and Landings Board Assistant