Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-24

GEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
- the Office of the Street Commissioner City Hail.
until Wednesday, the 9th day of June 1869 at
O'Clock P. M, 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 gathering 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 the1west side of Leroy street
The following is 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.
2150 hneal feet of curb
2150 lineal feet of gutter.
2150 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.
5700 hneal feet of curb.
$500 lineal feet of gutter.
JULIA STREET.
800 cubic yards of excavation.
LOO lineal feet of curb.
LOO hneal feet of gutter.
JEFFERSON STREET.
200 cubic yards of excavation.
1,770 lineal feeto curb.
Ito lineal feet of gutter.
1850 lineal feet of tagging
JOHN STREET.
400 cubic yards of excavation.
LOO lineal feet of curb.
LOO hneal feet of gutter.
Bidders win be required to bid for each street In
a 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.
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 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 ii the person or persons omit or re-
fuse to execute such contratct 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 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. ALI 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 rghtto retain all bids which NAV
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.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Elizabeth, May 10, 1861. myl8-3w