The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-10
MAYoRALrY OF NEW ORLEANS, |
City Hall, Sept. Il, 1865.

MAYoRALrY OF New ORLEANS,
City Hall. Sept. q, 1865. !
mo. l03l-N. 81
Resolred, That the controller be- and he IL
hereby authorized to sell, after ten days notice 10
foot bridge across the New Canal basin, at the
foot of Liberty street, according to plans and
specifications on file in the surveyors Office since
July 10, 1866.
President Board Assistant Aldermen.
(Sisned) THOMAS Marley,
President Board of Aldermen.
Approved Sept. 81, 1868.
(Signed) JOHN R. CONWAY. Mayor.
JoHNW. OVERALL. Secretary.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE CONTRACT FOR THs con-
sTRUCTI0N OF A FOOT BRIDGE ACROSS THE NEW
CANAL BASIN AT LIBERTY STREET.
The bridge, pier, bulkhesds, abutments, etc.,
shall be constructed in all points In accordance
with the plans. sections and profiles hereto
Dexed, and shall have the dimensions marked on
the same. rH
The pier supporting the turning portion of the
bridge shall be built Of best hard burnt lake
bricks, laid in best hydraulic cement mortar,
resting on platform of 4 by IL inch cypress
planks projecting four feet outside of the masonry
suPERsTRucruHE.
All the timbers and lumber shall be Of Pearl
river red cypress OF the best quality, well framed
and having the dimensions marked on the plans.
All the timbers shall be planed, and shall receive
good tarring Of half tar and half rosn or as
phaltum on the edges and wherever two or more
pieces shall be supersposed. The floor shall be
OF narrow cypress planks two inches thick.
IRON WORK AND CASTINGS.
The bed plates. rollers and machinery required
to open and shut the turning portion of the bridge,
as well as all windlasses, etc., shall be of the
best cast iron, properly set in and fastened, the
whole according to the plans. The bolts, sas.
required fastenings shall be of the best Tennessee
iron, and shall be of the dimensions marked on
the plans. The hog chains to DO one and half
inches in diameter.
ABUTMEST PIERS, ETC.
The abutment piers shall be lined with row OF
l2xl2 inch piles, driven ten feet into the solid
ground, at distances of five feet from centers. Said
piles 10 receive double sheathng of 3xl2 inches
cypress planks, strongly nailed with six inch
pressed spikes, and also 12xl2 inch caps. The
spaces between the banks Of the canal and the
projection Of said sbutments into the canal shall
be filed up and graded per plans, and the
hlliDg shall be covered with coat of lake shells
at least six inches thick. and solidy rammed.
Ratings similar to those Of the bridge shall sur
round the pile Innings.
Fender piles to protect the bridge against in
Juries from vessels navigating in said canal shall
De driven and framed as marked on plans.
PAINTING.
The outside faces of the beams and frames, the
ratings and posts, the hog chains, etc.. In fact all
wood and iron work usually painted shall receive
q covering OF three good coats Of the best white
French zinc in linseed oil of such coiors as NAV
be selected by the city surveyor.
GENERAL CLAUSES.
All the materials shall be of the best quality,
and shall be furnished by the contractor, as well
as the labor.
The bridge, when completed, shall De perfectly
well equiIibrated. 10 order that 1t may be easily
opened and shut, and the work in all Its details
shall be perfectly well executed to the entire sat
isfacton of the city surveyor otherwise 1t shall be
rejected.
The contractor shall guarantee the bridge to
stand for term of one year from its completion
and its acceptance by the city surveyor, and to
guarantee the faithful performance OF this clause
the treasurer shall retain in guarantee ten per
cent. OF the contract price until the expiration of
said year, which ten per cent. shall then be paid
only # the bridge be then found in perfect cond.
ton by the city surveyor.
The contractor shall be bound to begin the work
in the ter days following the approval of the adj
Judication by the Common Council, and to com.
piete The same three months after under a men.
atty OF ten dollars per day for each and every dav
thereafter The same is not completed.
security to an amount of one thousand dollars
snail De required To guarantee the faithful per.
Torrance of the contract
fsyment In cash On the completion of the whole
work and acceptance OF the same by the city sur.
Veyor less ten per cent. to be retained In guar.
antee by the city treasurer.
, IL ID well understood that In case of failure by
the contractor to begin or finish the work, or any
part thereof, within the period fixed, or in case
The Common Council be dissatisfed with the man
ner in which the same is being executed, the Com
mon Council shall have the right to snnul the con-
tract without putting the contractor in default as
required BY article 1905 Of the Civil Code, and |
snnout applying to court Of justice to annul the
'sme and without indemnity; and il Is also well |
Understood that In case the contractor shall at /
my time abandon the work or not finish and com /
,lete the same in conformity with his contract,
ne SAID contractor thall forfeit all clsms he may
lave against the city for any part OF the work |
lone BY him up to the date Of his abandonment:
nd that the city shall be thereby discharged and |
eiessed from any and all liability therefor and
also well understood that in case the contract
70 resold, the contractor and his securities shsii