Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-22
cEALED PROPOSALS will be received at

GSEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
- the office of the Street Commissioner, City
Hall, until Wednesday, the 4th day of August, 1868,
at O'Clock ?. NJ, for the following work:
The following is about the amount of work to be
done, and the materials TO be furnished i'll the con-
struction and completion OF said work
EAST GRAND STREET,
To flag the sidewalks from Madison avenue to
Spring street
300 lneal feet of tagging.
FIRST STREET
To regulate, grade curb and gutter Pine street TO
Port avenue.
100 cubic yards of grading.
400 lineal feet Of curb
RECTOR STREET.
To regulate, grade curb and gutter, from Pearl
street to South street
1000 cubic yards of excavation.
1,575lincal feet of curb.
1875 lineal feet OF gutter.
NEWARK AVENUE
To regulate, grade and curb, from Broad street
to Port avenue, and from Alma street to Clinton
township, to pave with wooden pavement from
Broad street to the line of Clinton township.
$500 square yards of wooden pavement.
10000 cubic yards of excavation.
2,700 lineal feet of curb.
CROSS STREET.
To regulate, grade, curb and gutter, from Port
street to Smith street.
400 cubic yards of excavation.
1,050 lineal feet of curb.
l,Oj0 lineal feet OF gutter.
THIRD STREET.
To construct sewer, from Livingston street to
South Park street and in BROADWAY from Third
street to Park Place.
$50 lineal feet more or less, 18-inch pipe sewer.
2GO lineal feet or less, 15-inch pipe sewer.
200 lincal feet more or less, Pinch pipe sewer.
8n.auholes.
l street basin.
DIVISION STREET.
To grade, curb and gutter from High street to
Livingston street.
1900 cubic yards of excavation.
1000 lineal feet OF curb.
1900 lineal feet of gutter.
NORRIS AVENIJE
To sewer from Stiles street to the summit.
400 hneal feet more or less, Pinch pipe sewer.
manholes.
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 S2.25 per day for curb
gutter and tagging, $2.75 per day for pipe sewers.
me plans and specifications of the work can DO
examined at the office of the Street Commissioner.
sad proposals must be accompanied by a bond
eAccuted ny TWO or more ample, satisfactory and
suicieht securities, resident in the county, in at
eust one fourth the sum specified i'll the proposal
Tor the performance of the work, should the con-
tract DC awarded to the person making the propo-
sal; ahd that If the person persons omit re-
ise 10 execute such contract they will pay to the
CITY OF Elizabeth any difference between the
ne OF 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
Payments will be made in cash, in sums
NOT less than one thousand dollars, as tho
work progresses on certificate of the City Survey
or the city retaining twenty-five per cent, which
VIII be pad when the work is completed.
a. Inc penalty for each days neglect to complete
he WORK according to the contract beyond the time
nAed therein, shall be three dollars, where the
gross amount to be paid the contractor shall be
Iess ihah 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 payment is made.
me City Council of the city of Elizabeth reserve
10 themselves the right to retain all bids which
may be offered until opened, and TO reject any or
an the DDS for the above work, as they may deem
best for the interest Of the city
l. IL. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner
Elizabeth, July 10, 1863. u33w