The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-05

STREET COMMISSIONERS OFFICE
City Hall, Room No, Z, Basement Floor,
New Orleans, July 30, 1868.
| SPECIFICATIONS OF A 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 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 themselves to
keep the said wagons in good order at his 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.
It 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 CON-
petent person at the Office of the street commits
ut he hFan atr At
commissioners office, No. IS st. Peter street.
whose duty shall be to issue the necessary Ger.
tihcates 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
dscontinung 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 TO the nterment 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 80 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
amount of the fines, the wages of workmen and
cost Of vehicles TO be deducted out of any of the
"aUrnants 10 be made to said contractors.
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 snm
OF ten per cent. shall be retained for each Ger.
tllfAtn until tha x,;-o
contract, which ten per cent. shall then be maid
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 90 into opera.
ton immediately after the adjudcatious are an.
proved by the city authorities and from the data
OF signing the same before the city notary.
TENTH.
IL IS wen understood that in case of failure by
the contractor contractors to begin or perform
t1e above work. or in case the city authorities he
1lssaIisned with the manner in which the work is
Deing performed or executed, the said CITY autho
rites shall have the right to annul the contract
without putting the contractor or contractors in
oeiault, as required by article 1905 Of the Civil |
oode, ana without applying to a court of justice /
10 snnul the same, and without indemnity: and II /
Is also well understood that in case the contraetor
or contractors shall at any time abandon the work
and not perform the same in conformity with his
VI tneL contract, the SAID contractor contract
ors shall forfeit all claim they may have for anv
portion Of the work performed up to the date o;
the abandonment, and that the city shall thereby
De discharged and released from any aud ali lia.
olty therefor, and 1t Is also well understood that
n case the contract be resold the contractor or
contractors and his or their security shall be held
mo bound an Sottdo to pay unto the city all loss
u olnerence between the prices at which the con-
ractor or contractors originally contracted TO
'erform the work, and the price at which il NAV
'e aoJudicated at resale or rehabilitation.
Bids to be so much per year.
The contract shall be adjudicated 10 the lowest
dder, at the Office of the city controller. on
Iugust 18th, 1865, Saturday noon.
(Signed) JOSEPH MURPHY.
Street Commissioner.
Approved: L. ii. SgTELps'
hartman Streets and Landings Board Aldermen.
GERALD FARRELL,
hartman Streets and Landings Board Assistant