Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-14

CtEALED PROPOSALS will be received al
- the Office of the Street Commissioner, City Hall
until Wednesday, the seth daylof June, 1863, at Z
O'Clock p. NJ, for the following work:
For Paving Grove street, from Grier avenue to
Broad street. with wooden pavement
For sewering Sonth street, from the Summit at
or near Grier avenue, to Broad street;
For paving Union street, from Morris avenue to
Jersey street;
For sewering Marshall street, from the south
side of Third street to the summit
For sewering William street, from Madison ave-
nue. to Catharine street;
For street BASIN corner of Smith and Cross
Streets
The followingis about the amount Of work to be
done, and materials to be furnished III the construc
ton and completion OF said work.
GROVE STREET.
10000 square yards, more or less, of wooden pave
SOUTH STREET.
$50 feet, more or less, Of 12-inch stoneware pipe
sewer.
manhOles.
2S six-inch connections.
UNION STREET.
1000 square yards OF trap-block pavement.
45O square feet OF bridge stone.
2 600 lneal feet OF curb to be reset
100 hneal feet Of new curb
MARSHALL STREET.
800 feet, more or less, of Pinch stoneware pipe
sewer.
manhOles.
"a siX-ipch connections.
/ street basin.
WILLIAM STREET.
so feet more or less, 15-inch stoneware pipe
$50 feet, more or less, Pinch stoneware pipe
sewer.
mGnholes.
60 six-inch connections
l street basin.
sMI1H AND CROSS STREETS.
/ street basin.
Bidders will be required to bid for each street in
a separate and distinct bid they will also be re-
mir tn hid fine time taken 10 cOunDptiOu
ofthe work. at the rate of S2.T5 per day for stone
ware pipe sewer, S275 for paving, and 1925 FOL
curb, gutter and tagging.
The plans and specifications of the work can be
examined at the office OF the Street Commissioner.
Said proposal must be accompanied by a bond
executed by two or more ample, satisfactory and
sufficient securities, resident in the county in al
least onetourth the sum specified in the propose
for the performance of the work, should the con
tract be awarded to the person making the prOpo
sal; and that ii the person or persons omit or re
fuse to execute 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 o.
persons by whom such contract shall be executed
Payments will be made in cash, monthly, in sums
not less than thousand dollars, the work pro
crosses, on certificate of the City Surveyor thu
city retaining twenty-five per cent, which will b.
paid when the work is completed
The penaley for each days neglect to complete
the work, according to the contract, beyond tht
time fixed therein, shall be three dollars, where thu
gross amount to be paid the contractor shall b.
less than three thousand dollars, and two dollars
per day additional for every two thousand dollars
beyond that sum- All penalties incurred shall b.
deducted from the amount due the contractor be
fore the final payment is 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 all The
bids for the above work, as they may deem best fo
the interest of the city.
L. H HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Elizabeth, Jehe s. 1869. ie10-3w