Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-23

SSEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
y the office of the Street Commissioner, City
Hall, until Wednesday, the 4th day of August, 1862
at O'Clock z, 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
2O70 lincal 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. #..ts fs
400 feet of gutter.
To regulate, grade, curb and gutter, from Pearl
street to South street.
1000 cubic yards of excavation.
1878 lineal feet of curb.
1,575 lineal feet Of gutter.
s1 ~ 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.
2,70O lineal feet OF curb.
SO CROSS STREET.
To regulate, grade, curb and gutter, from Port
street to Smith street. au
400 cubic yards of excavation.
1850 lneal feet of curb. XIII
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, 18-inch pipe sewer
260 lineal feet more or less, 15-inch pipe sewer.
200 lineal feet more or less, Pinch pipe sewer.
manholes. @ e
/ street basin. 80
DIVISION STREET.
70 grade, curb and gutter from High street to
$500 cubic yards of excavation.
1000 lineal feet of curb.
1000 lneal feet of gutter
NORRIS AVENUE.
To sewer from Stiles street to the summit.
400 hneal feet more or less, 12-inch pipe sewer.
4manholes.
Bidders will be required TO bid for each street in
separate and distinct bid; they win also be
CURED to bid on the time taken for the completion
OF the work at the rate of $2.25 per day for curb,
gutter and tagging, S2.75 per day for pipe sewers.
Inc plans and specifications of the work can be
examined at the Office of the Street Commissioner.
Said proposals must be accompanied by a bond
executed by two or more ample, satisfactory and
suihcent securities, resident in the county in at
least one fourth the sum specified in the proposal
Tor 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 or
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 tho
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. sg %
Payments will be. made in cash, in sums
not less than one thousand dollars 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
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 or
all the bids for the above work, they may deem
best for the interest of the city.
l. If. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
Elizabeth, July 10, 1862 jl3 3w