Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-14

~ EALED PROPOSALS will be received at
- the Office of the Street Commissioner, City
Hall, until Wednesday, the 4th day of August 1859
mt O'Clock P. NJ, for the following work:
The following is about the amount of work to be
done, and the materials to be furnished in the con-
struction and completion Of said work:
EAST GRAND STREET,
To flag the sidewalks from Madison avenue to
Spring street
1910 lineal 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.
400 feet of gutter.
RECTOR STREET
To regulate, grade, curb and gutter, from Pearl
street to South street.
1880 cubic yards Of excavation.
1875 lineal 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.
1850 lneal feet of curb.
1850 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, 1S-inch pipe sewer.
260 ineal feet, more or less, 15-inch pipe sewer
200 lineal feet, more or less, 12-inch pipe sewer
mauholes.
l street basin.
DIVISION STREET.
To grade, curb and gutter from High stre ct to
Livingston street.
1900 cubic yards of excavation.
1000 lineal feet of curb.
1000 lineal feet of gutter
MORRIS AVENUE.
To sewer from Stiles street to the summit
400 lineal feet, more or less, 12-inch pipe sewer
4manhoes.
Bidders will be required to bid for each street i'll
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 $2.25 per day for curD
gutter and tagging, Sab per day for'plpe sewers
The plans and specifications Of the work can be
examined at the office of the Street Commissioner
Said proposals must be accompanied by pond
executed by two or more ample, satisfactory and
sufficient securities, resident in the county, IN AZ
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 propo-
sal; and that if the person or persons omit OF 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
or persons by whom such contract shall be ex-
ecuted
Payments will be made in cash, in sums
not less than one thousand dollars, as the
work progresses on certificate of the City Survey
or, the city retaining twenty-five per cent, which
Will be paid when the work is completed
The penalty for each days neglect to complete
tile WORK. according to tine 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 or
all the bids for the above work, as they may deem
best for the interest Of the city.
/, Ii. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Elizabeth, July 10, 1863 Jl33w