Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-19

CfEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
~ the office of the Street Commissioner, City
Hall, until Wednesday, the Sth day Of September,
1869 at o'clock P. NJ, for the following work:
The following is about the amount of work to be
done and the materials to be furnished in the
struetion and completion of said work:
MoRRELL STREET, 4
From Elizabeth avenue to Jersey street.
ITS lneal feet of tagging.
ELIZABETH AVENUE.
To sewer from Prospect street to Spring street.
400 lneal feet, more or less, of 12nch pipo sewer
4manholes.
BOND STREET
To grade, curb and gutter, from Third street to
Trumbull street.
1000 cubic yards of excavation.
$500 cubic yards of filling.
$500 lneal feet of curb
$500 lneal feet of gutter.
OLIVE STREET.
To grade, curb and gutter, from Spring street to
Henry street
1900 cubic yards of excavation.
1850 hneal feet of curb.
1850 lneal feet Of gutter.
LIVINGSTON STREET.
To grade, curb and gutter from Third street to
the New Point road.
COCO cubic yards of excavation.
5000 lineal feet of curb.
5000 linoal feet Of gutter.
Isl CLINTON STREET.
To grade, curb and gutter, from Third STREET to
the New Point road.
5000 cubic yards of excavation.
5000 lineal feet of curb.
5000 Hneal feet of gutter.
MARSHALL STREET.
+ To flag the sidewalks between First street and
Second street.
500 lneal feet of tagging,
CATHARINE STREET.
f To pave from Jersey street to Magnolia street.
5000 square yards of belgian pavement
100 lineal feet of new curb.
1000 lineal feet of curb to be reset.
900 square feet Of bridge stone
Bidders will be required to bid for each street in
separate and distinct bid; they will also be re-
quired to bid on the time taken for the completion
of the work at the rate of S275 per day for paving
2.25 per day for curb, gutter and Tagging, and
S2.75 per day for pipe sewer.
{ The plans and specifications OF the(work can be
examined at the Office of the Street Commissioner.
+ Said proposals must be accompanied by bond
executed by two or more ample, satisfactory and
sufficient securities resident i'll the county, i'll at
least one fourth the sum specified i'll the proposal
FOR the performance of the work, should the con-
tract be awarded to the person making the propo-
sal; and that if the person persons omit or re-
fuse to such contract they will pay to the
city of Elizabeth any difference between the sums
he or they would have been entitled to upon the
completion of the contract, and that which the
city of Elizabeth may be obliged to pay the person
or persons by whom such contract shall be ex-
ecuted.
Payments will be made in cash, monthly. in
sums not less than one thousand dollars as the
work progresses, on certificate of the City Survey
or the city retaining twenty-five per cent, which
will be paid when the work is completed
+ The penalty for each days neglect to complete
the work, according to the contract beyond the time
fixed therein, shall be three dollars, where the
gross amount to be paid the contractor shall be
less than three Thousand dollars, and two dollars
per day additional for every two thousand dollars
beyond that sum. All penalties incurred shall be
deducted from the amount due the contractor be-
fore the final payments made.
The City Council of the city of Elizabeth reserve
to themselves the right to retain all bids which
may be offered until opened, and to reject any or
all the bids for the above work. as they may deem
best for the interest of the city.
L. Ii. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Elizabeth, August A. 1869. all 3w