Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-12

GEALED PROPOSALS will be receiv ed
- the office of the Street Commissioner, City
Hail. until Wednesday, the first day of September,
1869 at O'Clock p M, 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:
MEADOW STREET AND ADAMS AVENUE.
To sewer from the sewer in Anna street to Adams
avenue, and in Adams Avenue from Meadow street
TO the summit north of Mary street.
1890 lineal feet more or less, l2-tnch pipe sewer
10 manholes.
/ street basin.
0lineal feet of 12-inch culvert.
CLINTON STREET.
To sewer from Third street to the summit.
10 lineal feet, more or less, 15-inch pipe sewer
430 lineal feet, more or less, Pinch pipe sewer.
manholes.
street basins.
40 lineal feet of 12-inch culvert.
ELIZABETH AVENUE.
To sewer from the summit near Fourth street, to
connect with the sewer at Smith street.
500 lineal feet, more or less, 15-inch pipe sewer
400 lineal feet more or less, Pinch pipe sewer
10 manholes.
street basins.
so lneal feet of 12-inch culvert.
JERSEY STREET.
street basin corner of Jersey and Division
streets
Is liueal feet of 12-ineh cuvert.
SOUTH STREET.
10 pave with Belg1an or trap-DlOch plNeihch1
from Williamson street Washington avenue
1000 square yards of pavement.
$50 square feet of bridge stone.
100 lineal feet of new 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 the time taken for the completion OF the
work at the rate of $2.75 per day for pipe sewer
and S2.75 per day for paving.
The plans and specifications of the work can De
examined at the office of the Street Commissioner
Said proposals must be accompanied by bond
executed by two more ample, satisfactory and
sufficient securities resident in the county, in at
least one-fourth the sum specified in the proposal
for the performance of the work, shohld the con-
'sract 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 t. contract and that which the city
of Elizabeth My 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, as 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 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
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, as they may deem best for
the interest of the city.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner
Elizabeth, August 7, 1869. a10 3w