The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-11

furnish all collins that may be necessary Tor the
interment Of the INDECENT dead, deliverable az 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 Tor the
The civ 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 sffice, No. IS st. Peter street,
whose duty shall be to issue the necessary Ger.
ti6cstes of death and orders for hospital, under
the direction of said street commissioner. and to
attend to all details in connection with said con-
tract.
... FIFTH.
The city of New Orleans reserves the right Of
disseminating the different cemeteries In whlehthe
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 mediately with all certificates or orders
relative to the intermeut 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 and labor. The
amount of the fines, the wages OF workmen and
cost of vehicles to 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
tihcate of the street commissioner, and the sun
OF ten per cent. shall be retained for each GER
tifcate 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 MS
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 imme diatey after the adjudicatOus 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 10 case of failure by
the contractor or contractors to begin or perform
the above work, or in case the city authorities be
dissatisfied with the manner In which the work is
being performed or executed, the said city autho-
rules shall nave the right 10 annul the contract
without putting the contractor or contractors in
default as required by article 1905 OF the Civil
Code, and without applying to a court of justice
to snnul the same, and without indemnity; and il
is also well understood that in case the contractor
or 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 OF
the abandonment and that the city shall thereby
be discharged and released from any and all liza
biity therefor and 1t is also well understood that
in case The contract be resold the contractor or
contractors and his their security, shall be held
and bound in sOld0, 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 il may
be adjudicated at a resale or read Indication.
Bids to be so much per year.
The contract shall be sdjudicated to the lowest
bidder at the Office of the city controller, on
August 18th, 1868, Saturday noon.
(Signed) JOSEPH MURPHY,
Street Commissioner.
Approved: 7. Il. SHIELDS,
Chairman Streets and Landings Board Aldermen.
.......... GERALD FARRELL,
Chairman Streets and Landings Board Assistant
Aldermen.
P. LABARRE, Deputy Controller.
Registered August Sd. 1865