The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-13

SURVEYORS OFFICE, CRY HALL.
SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE REPAIRING OF tbs IRON
RAILING AND OF TIE GATES AND PILLARS OF
LAFAYETTE SQUARE.
The BRICK work and granite coping where II has
been destroyed by the fall OF the walls OF Odd
Fellows Hall, shall be rebuilt and replaced to
correspond with the existing part.
The iron railing which is laying on said square
shall be repaired and put up 10 the same manner
as the standing portion with that exception that
it shall be sealed with lead instead of sulphur as
formerly used.
The pillars and lamps shall be thoroughly re-
paired and reset.
The main and side gates shall be properly re-
paired, cleaned from ali rust aud properly hanged.
The locks shall be also repaired.
The lamps glass shall be replaced with the
best kind Of American cylinder glass, wherever
missing. ~
The tagging in front of the gates shall be relsid
and leveled with bedding Of good hydraulic ce-
meDt. .
The plastering outside and inside of the walls
shall be repaired wherever broken or otherwise
injured. and shall be painted with cement and
sand, Of granite colors. -..--.
The whole work shall be executed with the best
materials and In the best wormanke manner.
under the supervision of the city surveyor.
The contractor shall be bound to begin the
work ten days after the approval OF the adjudics-
ton by the Common Council and to complete it in
forty days after, under penalty OF five dollars
per day for each and every day thereafter the
Good and solvent security in the sum of two
hundred and fifty dollars shall be required to
guarantee the faithful execution OF the contract.
Payment in cash on the completion Of the work
and acceptance Of the same by the city surveyor
and chairman Of the committee Of streets and
landings. ~ 4...a ~
IL is 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 dissatisfied with the man.
ner In which the work Is being executed, the said
Common Council shall have the right to annul the
contract without putting the contractor in default
as required by article 1905 Of the Civil Code, and
without applying to court of justice to annul the
same. and without indemnity; and it is also well
understood that in case the contractor shall, at
any time, abandon the work, or not finish and COM
plete the same in conformity with his contract, the
said contractor shall forfeit all claims he may have
for any part of the work done by him up to the
be thereby discharged and released from any and
that in case the contract be resod the contractor
and his securities shall be held and bound, in
solido, to pay unto the city of New Orleans all
loss or difference between the price at which the
contractor originally contracted to perform the
work and the price at which 1t may be adjadicsted
at resale or readjudicaton.
Bids to be for the whole work complete.
New Orleans, August 4, 1868.
(Signed) l.. SURGI, City Surveyor.
Approved by the committees on streets and
landings of both boards Of the Common Council.
(siened) T. H. SHIELDS, ! c..,
(Signed) GERALD FARRELL,
Registered August 10. 1868.
P. LABARRE, Deputy Controller.