The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-13

SPECIFICATIONS ooNcERNrNe THE REPAIRS AND ADJ
DIrIoNs TO Bs MADE TO THE COURT HOUSE, TO
FIT IT UP FOR THE USE OF TIE SEVENTH DIS
TRIcT COURT. AND ALSO FOR THE WANTS OF THE
THIRD AND FOURTH DISTRICT COURTS.
SEVENTH DISTRICT COURT.
The existing partition in the center shall be re-
moved.
The center opening shall be filed with tran
som light, and the remainder with brick wall of
same thickness as the old one.
The party wall dividing the present rooms from
the gallery shall be demolished. including the two
cbimneys right and left. and shall be rebuilt solid
and flush with the two side walls.
girder, as shown on the plan and section, shall
be placed across the space left, to support the
joists of the upper floor.
Two new partitions shall be put up to divide the
present room from the clerks office Of the Third
and Fourth District Courts, he studding being Of
So yellow pine, placed one foot apart.
Two new doors, with transom lights, on the
hall, in place of those existing.
The openings on Chartres street shall be over.
bauled and thoroughly repaired. the walls aud
ceilings shall be plastered three coats and hard
finished.
In each of the clerks Offices for the Third,
Fourth and Seventh District Courts, shall be
fight Of winding stairs similar in construction TO
those already existing in the Supreme and Fifth
District Courts. Around the walls there shall be
a four-feet high wainscotng, made OF Narrow inch
yellow pine flooring. with moulding on top.
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half inch thick. and three inches mouldings.
The judges and clerks stands, the lawyers
table, the platform for the jury seats, the deputy
sberif's stand, the witness benches and railing,
shall be similar to those now used IN the Third
District Court, and placed in conformity with
plans.
THIRD Story-The floor shall be leveled; the
old tie beams shall be completed, leveled,
strengthened, cramped and bolted throughout.
The joists for the new floor shall be OF the pest
yellow pine by 3. sspporsed by trimmers by 4.
well nailed TO the old umbers and placed 10
inches from certers.
The upper joists for ceiling shall be OF similar
size.
The studding forming wall all round the man.
ssrd roof and for the partitions shall be of by 4,
placed foot from center and resting on plates
3 by above and below.
The door posts shall be by 4. The chimney
flues now existing shall be pulled down wherever
found in bad condition and rebuilt from the level
of the old floor TO the top, above the roof.
The flooring shall be of narrow, yellow pine, II,
tongued and groved, Of good quality and free OF
bad defects.
The partition doors, with trsnsom lights, shall
be double panel, IL thick, hanged with 4-inch
butt hinges. and good American rim lock:
The transom lights In the partitions shall be OF
the dimensions as those above the doors.
The present door of the law library shall be
used in the new room.
The skirtings all round the rooms and passage
shall be Of u cypress, IL inches high, with D.
The walls, feelings partitions, Throughout the
third story, shall be lathed and plastered, three
coats, hard finished.
Four new dormants, similar to those already ex.
isting shall be placed as marked on the plan.
The main stairs, leading from the second story
to the third, shall be made as per plan, with l. t.
inch rsers, inch treads, with mouldings and re-
turn nosing walnut railing, with turned ballu
dove-tailed in the treads, and fancy turned new
ell, also Of black walnut.
Two water closets. as per plan. with porcelain
basins, and lead pipes, two inches in diameter,
descending into the yards gutter. The flooring
shall be raised above the flooring of the passage,
and shall be covered with zinc, mo. 49, having a
fall sufficient TO carry of the water into the pipes
Leading to the yard.
The walls shall, be wanscoted, four feet high
on each side one partition six feet high to divide
the two closets, and one lattice door tc each
closet.
The stairs leading to the cupola shall be re-
The cupola and the outside of the dormant win
dows shall receive three coats of the best white
| lead and shall be sanded. The wood work,
usually painted, and the iron shall receive three
| coats of paint Of the color designated.
The roof stating shall be overhsuled and thor
| oughly repaired, and the ridges and chimneys
pointed all round with good mortar OF lime and
| white sharp sand. :,
The valleys, hanging cutters and leaders shall
| be thoroughly repaired all round the main build
| ing, and those missing or decayed shall be re
placed.
The gas pipes now existing shall be repaired
and new ones placed wherever designated on the
plans with ordinary fixtures and burners.
The fixtures Of the Seventh District Court shall
| be similar TO those Of the Third.
The new glazing shall be of the best quality oil
American glass, and the broken panes of glas:
shall be replaced wherever required.
GENERAL CLAUSES.
The whole work shall be executed in conformity
with the plans and specifications, and under the
/ supervision of the city surveyor.
In case of omission of anything necessary tc
| complete the work above described, the con
tractor shall bind himself 10 have it done at hi'
own expense, upon the requisiton of the city
| surveyor.
The contractor shall be bound to begin the worE
| ten days after the approval OF the adjudication
| by the Common Council, and to complete the
same on the 18th of October next, under penslty
| Of twenty-five delars per day for each and every
day the same is not completed.
Payment in cash on the completion OF the work
and acceptance of the came by the city surveyor
| and committee of streets and landings.
A security of one thousand dollars shall be re
CURED from the contractor to guarantee the faith
full performance of the contract
Ii is well understood, that in case OF failure BY
the contractor to begin or finish the work, o
any part thereof, within the period fixed, o
| in case the council be dissatisfied with the name
in which the work is being executed, the coun
| ell snail nave tne Tlgnt 10 dnnul INC COu
tract without putting the contractor in default
as required by article 1905 of the Civil Code, AM
without applying to court of justice to annul th
sane, and without indemnity; and it Is also vel
understood that in case the contractor shall, a
| any time abandon the work, or not finish and com
plete the same in conformity with his contract, til
| contractor shall forfeit all claims be may hav
for any part of the work done by him up {
the date Of his abandonment. and that the cit
shall be thereby discharged and released from an
and all liability therefor and il is also well under
STOOD that in case the contract be resod, the cor
tractor and his securities shall be held and bound
in sodo, TO pay unto the city all loss or differenc
between the price at which the contractor or
ginally contracted to perform the work, and th
price at which it may be adjadicated at a resal
or readjudication.
Bids to be for the whole work complete.
New Orleans. August IL, 1858.
| (Signed) L. SuRGI, City Surveyor.
Approved by the committee on streets and lan(
ings of both boards of the Common Council.
| (SiQned) 7. H. SHIELDS, cA.;.,,.,
GERALD FARRELL, OA" A
Registered August Is, 1865.
| seIO sc PAS. LABARRE, Deputy Controller.
MAYORALrY OF New ORLEANS,
| LCity Hall, August 81, 1865.