The New Orleans crescent., 1868-10-09
STREET COMMISSIONERS OFFIos,
City Hall, Room No. Z, Basement Floor,


STREET COMMISSIONERS OFPIcs,l
City Hall, Room No. z, Basement Floor.
New Orleans, October s, 1868. J
SPECIFICATIONS OF CONTRACTS FOR CLEANING THE
STREETS AND REPAIRING THE UNPAvED STREETS
OF THE SEVENTH, EIGHTH AND NINTH WARDS,
FOR TERM OF TWO YEARS.
The contractors shall be bound, daily, If 30 re-
qured, to clean out thoroughly all the cutters
and under all the bridges in all the streets, alleys
and levees within the limits of their respective
ward or section, and to remove therefrom by
O'Clock A. NJ. from the 18th day of March, to the
18th day of October, and by 8 o'clock A. NJ. from
the 18th day of October to the 18th day of March,
daily, all kinds Of filth, dirt, vegetable substances
etc., that may be found lying IN or growing in or
upon the borders of the same, and to remove all
substances OF any description whatsoever which
may obstruct hinder the free passage the water
in or through said cutters and under the said
bridges; and they shall be further bound, daily.
if SO required, in all the streets within the
limits of their respective ward or section through
which water is or shall be conveyed by the Water
Works Company or the city. to cause all the gut
tiers TO be thoroughly cleaned and washed before
9 O'Clock, A. NJ, from the 18th day of March to
the 18th day OF October, and by 10 O'Clock. A. NJ.
from the 18th day of October TO the 18th day of
March, in the following manner, to-wit: BY csus-
ing to be scraped, by the means Of suitable hoes,
etc. all dirt or filth of any description contained
or found therein which shall be put into piles at
the sides thereof, and Immediately after having
scraped and cleaned said CUTTERS, the contractors
fsfs py se always asaE s sS
cient hose for each plug SO opened. In such q man.
ner as TO conduct the water into said cutters
without unnecessary waste, and while the water
10 thus running they shall cause them to be swept
or cleaned with brooms, excepting on days when
there shall be sufficient rain water passing through
the cutters for the purpose required.
The contractors shall be bound. whenever re-
quired, 10 cut and remove all grass weeds and
other vegetable substances found growing on the
sidewalks bordering and fronting any OF the pub
lie squares, public places, neutral grounds, public
buildings, or on the paved or unpaved streets,
cutters or bitches, and they shall be further
bound TO clean and dig the said bitches to their
original depths, and keep the same clean and dug,
In accordance with grades and levels TO be fur
nshed by the city surveyor; aud the dirt coming
from the same where the streets are unpaved
shall be thrown upon the center of the street and
properly graded; and they shall further be bound
to fill up with proper materials all holes ruts, etc,
In all the uppsved streets, common alleys, etc.,
within the limits Of their respective ward or sec.
ton, upon their first appearance. and shall always
keep and preserve the grade OF said unpaged
streets, alleys, etc., in q regular curved form.
The contractors shall be bound daily TO cause
TO be taken and carried away from and out of all
the streets. common and private alleys, lanes,
roads. dublic places and levees, and from the
sidewalks Of the same, by o'clock A: NJ. from
the 18th day of March TO the 18th day of October,
and by s O'Clock A. NJ, from the 18th day of 90.
tober to the 18th day of March, daily, all the filth
dirt, rubbish. manure, animal and vegetable sub.
stances, ofias, kitchen stuff and fecculent mattel
of any description Whatever, that may be found
contained in boxes, barrels, tubs. baskets or other
vessels, or what may be thrown or found lying on
any of the said streets, sidewalks alleys public
places and wharves. or upon the border or mar
gin Of the river down to the waters edge within
the limits of their respective ward or section, and
they shall further be bound 10 carry away i'm.
medistely all dead animals found within the limits