The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-07

STREET COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
City Hall, Room No. Z, Basement Floor,
New Orleans, July 80, 1868.
SPECIFICATIONS OF CONTRACT FOR BURYING THE
INDECENT DEAD AND CONVEYING THE INDECENT
SICK TO HOSPITAL WITHIN THE CITY OF NEW
ORLEANS FOR ONE YEAR.
FIRST.
The contractor or contractors shall be bound
to furnish the necessary number of horses and
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 to be
delivered to said contractor or contractors in
whatever condition they may be in, TO be returned
to the eaid 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 his or their expense
any additional number of wagons, horses and
drivers as the emergency may at any time require.
SECOND.
IL 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
ors will be held strictly responsible for the num-
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 shall be TO issue the necessary GER
tifcstes 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
dscontnuing the different cemeteries in which the
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 com.
ply immediately with all certificates or orders
relative 10 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 contractors, which, in all cases, the
street commissioner will be bound to do or cause
to be done at whatever cost be may be able to
procure the necessary vehicles and labor. The
cost of vehicles 10 be deducted out of any OF the
monthly payments 70 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.
tfcaie of the street commissioner, and the sum
of ten per cent. shall be retained for each Ger.
tihcate IN 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 sndings otherwise to be forfeited for
the use Of the city. - .
NINTH.
The contract shall take effect and 20 into opera.
ton Immediately after the adjudicatious are ap-
proved by the city authorities, and from the date
OF signing the same before the city notary.