Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-11

SEALED PROPOSALS will be received
- the office of the Street Commissioner, City
Hall, until Wednesday, the first day of September,
1869, at O'Clock 2. NJ, for the following work:
The following is about the amount of work to be
DONE and the materials to be furnished in the
struction and completion of said work;
MEADOW STREET AND ADAMS AVENUE.
To sewer from the sewer in Anna street to Adams
avenue, and i'll AID ans avenue from Meadow street
to the summit north of Mary street
1890 lineal feet, more or less, l2nch pipe sewer.
10 manholes.
l street basin.
90 ineal feet of Pinch culvert
CLINTON STREET.
To sewer from Third street to the summit.
10 neal feet, more or less, 15-inch pipe sewer.
400 lneal feet, more or less, Pinch pipe sewer.
manholes.
street basins.
40 lineal feet of Pinch culvert.
ELIZABETH AVENUE.
To sewer from the summit near Fourth street, to
connect with the sewer ut Smith street.
$50 lineal feet, more or less, l5-inch pipe sewer.
400 lineal feet more or less, 12-inch pipe sewer.
Is manholes.
street basins.
80 lneal feet of Pinch culvert
JERSEY STREET.
street basin corner of Jersey and Division
streets.
25 lineal feet of 12nch culvert.
SOUTH STREET.
To pave with Belgian or trap-block pavement,
from Williamson street Washington avenue.
1000 square yards of pavement.
$50 square feet of bridge stone.
100 lneal feet OF hew curb
1900 lineal feet of curb reset
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 S275 per day for pipe sewer
and 81. rs per day for paving.
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 in the county 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 pro-
posal and that if the person or persons omit or
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 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 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 day 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 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, they may deem best for
the interest of the city.
L. II. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Elizabeth, August 7, 1862 al0 3w