Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-04-07
SEALED PROPOSALS will be recolv

GEALED PROPOSALS. will be receive
- at the Office OF the Street COMMISSIONS
City Hall, until " ednesday. the 2fst day of Apr
1869, at O'Clock p. NJ, for the following improy
mcnts:
For buildinga sewer in Railway avenue. iron
Broad street to the river.
For building sewer in Grier avenue, to
point at or near the Edgar turnpike road.
To regulate, gradeaud curb MapleaYenue, froh
Grove street to Garden street.
To regulate, grade and curb Garden street, fro
Washington avenue to Maple avenue f.-.. +.
70 requisite and curb Grove street, from Wasl
ington avenue to Maple avenue
To regulate, grade, curb and gutter Dollar
place, from Jersey street TO Railway avenue.
To regulate. grade, curb and gutter Morrel
street, from Elizabeth avenue to Jersey street.
The following is about the amount of work tC
be done, and the materials to be furnished in the
construction and completion of said work:
RAILWAY AVENUE.
$50 lineal feet, more or less, of1S-inch stone
ware pipe sewer. tG@ fuf af
$50 1ineal feet, more or less, IL inch stoneware
pipe sewer
Tmanholes.
I street basin.
90 lineal feet 12-inch culyert, +ai
GRIER AVENUE.
800 lineal feet. more or less, is inch stone
ware pipe sewer. tIgtfl
$50 lineal feet, more or less, 15.inch stone
ware pipe sewer. 5t ltH4
500 lineal feet, more or less, 12-inch stoneware
pipe sewer.
20 manholes. ,lt5..fI -ftt. rtes#t
100 six-iHch connections.
1860 iineai feet, more or less, 6anch stonewarc
pipe. ltI
street basins.
100 lineal feet more or less, 12-inch culyert
GARDEN STREET.
5000 cubic yards. more or less, of excavation.
300 lneal feet, more or less, of curb. uttu ..rl
GROVE STREET.
2700 lineal feet, more or less Of curb,
DEHART PLACE,
1900 cubic yards, more or less, of excavation.
$500 lineal feet, more or less, of curb.
$500 lneal feet, more or less, of gutter
MORRILL, STREET
1900 cubic yards, more or less, of excavation
400 lineal feet, more or lees, of curb
400 lineal feet, more or less, of gutter
MAPLE AVENUE.
300 cubic yards, more or less, of excavation
1850 feet, more or less, of curb
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 compile.
ton of work at the rate ri ST. 70 per day for stone
ware pipe sewer, and 1925 per day for curb, gut
ter and tagging.
The plans and specifications Of the work can
be examined at the office of the Street Commits
sioner.
Said proposal must be accompanied by a
bond, executed by two or more ample, satisiac-
tory and sufficient securities, resident in the
county, IN at least One-IOurLn the sum speclneu
in the proposal for the performance of the work,
should the contract be awarded to the person
making the proposal; and that If the person o
persons omit or refuse to execute such contrac
they will pay to the city of Elizabeth any differ
ence between heisums he or they would have
been entitled to upon the completion OF the con
tract, 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 five hundred dollars, as the
work progresses, on certificate of the City Sur
veyor, the city retaining twenty-five per cent
which will be paid when the work is completed
The penalty for each days neglect to complet,
the work according to the contract beyond tn
time fixed therein, shall be three dollars wher
the gross amount to be paid the contractor shall
be less than three thousand dollars an
two dollars per day additional for every tw
thousand dollars beyond that sum. All penaitie
incurred shall be deducted from the amount du
the contractor before the final payment is made
The City Council of the City OF Elizabeth II
serve to themselves the right to retain all bio
which may be offered until opened, and TO reje,
any or all the bids for the above work as thG
may deem best for the interest of tie city.
L. II. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner
Elizabeth, March 81, 1869. maD