Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-28
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GEALED PROPOSALS will be received a
- the office of the Street Commissioner, City
Hail. until Wednesday, the 18th day of August
| 1869 at O'Clock p. M, for the following work:
The following is about the amount of work to bC
DONE and the materials to be furnished in the con
struction and completion of said work;
WEST JERSEY STREET.
To sewer from the summit near Chiffon street, tC
the bridge over Elizabeth river.
$50 Hneal feet, more or less, 18-inch pipe sewer
$50 lineal feet, more or less, 15-iDch pipe sewer
GRIER AVENUE.
From South street to the road leading from the
Edgar turnpike near the residence of Jacob Gohr
ing, to Williamson street, to grade and curb.
1850 lineal feet of curb.
100 cubic yards of excavation.
MAPLE AVENUE.
To flag the sidewalks from Grove street to Garden
street. ...
1,648 lineal feet of tagging.
GROVE STREET.
To flag the sidewalks from Washington avenue
to Maple avenue.
2725 lineal feet of tagging.
ADAMS AVENUE.
To regulate, grade and curb from Port avenue to
North avenue.
5000 cubic yards of excavation.
$500 lincal feet of curb
MARY STREET.
To sewer from Jefferson avenue to Madison ave
800 lineal feet. more or less, 1Sinch pipe sewer.
manholes.
20 lineal feet of 12-inch culvcrt
GRIER AVENUE.
To pave Grier avenue, from South street to the
road leading from the Edgar turnpike, near the
residence of Jacob Gohring TO Williamson street.
10 400 square yards of wooden pavement.
COURT STREET.
To flag between Third street and Fourth street
262 lineal feet of tagging.
LIVINGSTON STREET.
To flag between First street and Second street.
400 is FIRST STREET.
poIf ant hftx nrOa
street and Livingston street
40 square yards of pavement.
LEROY STREET.
400 cubic yards of filling.
$50 lineal feet of curb.
$50 lineal feet of gutter.
Bidders will be required to bid for each street in
separate and distinct bid; they will also be required
to bid on the time taken for the completion OF the
work, at the rate of S275per day for paving S2.25
per day for curb, gutter and tagging, and S275 pei
day for pipe sewer.
The plans and specifications of the work can be
examined at the office of the Street Commissioner.
Said proposal must be accompanied by bond
executed by two or more ample, satisfactory and
sufficient securities, resident in the county in al
least one fourth the sum specified in the proposal
for the performance of the work, should the con
tract be awarded to the person making the pro
posal and that if the person OF persons omit OF
refuse 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 OF
persons by whom such contract shall be executed
Payments will be made in cash, monthly, in sums
not less than thousand dollars, as the work pro
gresses on q certificate of the City Surveyor, 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 duo 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 or all thu
bids for the above work, they may deem best fol
the interest of the city.
L. II. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Elizabeth, July a. 1869. j27 3w