Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-20

CEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
= the office of the Street Commissioner City Hall
until Wednesday, the 9th day of June, 1869, at 8
O'Clock P NJ, for the following work;
For grading, curbing, guttering and tagging
Walnut street from Chestnut street to Mary street
For grading, curbing and guttering Spencer street.
from First avenue to the Creek.
For grading, curbing and guttering Julia street
from Meadow street to Spring street.
For grading, curbing. guttering and tagging JEFF
ferson street, from Elizabeth avenue to Jersey
street.
For grading, curbing and guttering John street,
from First avenue to the west side of Leroy street
The followingis about the amount of work to be
done and materials to be furnished in the construc
ton and completion of said work.
WALNUT STREET.
200 cubic yards of excavation.
2,150 lineal feet of curb
2, $50 Hneal feet of gutter.
2,150 lineal feet of tagging.
100 lineal feet of curb and gutter to be reset
100 lineal feet of tagging to be relaid.
SPENCER STREET.
$500 cubic yards of excavation
300 lineal feet of curb.
$500 hneal feet of gutter.
JULIA STREET.
800 cubic yards of excavation
1,100 lineal feet of curb.
LOO lineal feet of gutter.
JEFFERSON STREET.
200 cubic yards of excavation.
Ito lineal feet of curb
Ito lineal feet of gutter.
1850 lineal feet of tagging.
JOHN STREET.
400 cubic yards of excavation.
LOO lineal feet of curb.
100 lineal feet of gutter 4sA
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
ofthe work, at the rate of $225 per day, for 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 bond
executed by two or more ample, satisfactory and
sufficient securities resident in the country in at
least one-fourth the specified in the proposal
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 conratct 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 executed.
Payments will be made in cash, monthly in sums
not less than thousand dollars, the work pro-
crosses, on acertihcate of the City Surveyor, the
city retaining twenty-five per cent, which will be
paid when the work is completed.
The penaley for each days neglect to complete
the work, according to the contract beyond the
time fixed thereid, 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 payment is made.
The City Council of the city of Elizabeth reserve
to themselves the rightto 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 for
the interest of the city.
LII. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner
Elizabeth, May Is, 1869. my1S-3w