Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-13
c,EAIED PROPOSALS will be received a

StEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
y the office of the Street Commissioner, City Hail.
until Wednesday, the 26th day of May, 1863, at
O'Clock P NJ, for the following work.
East Grand street sewer, from Madison avenue
easterly to the summit.
For tagging Bond street, from Spring street to
Catharine street
For tagging Chestnut street, from Rallroad ave-
nue. to Broad street,
For tagging Jefferson avenue, from Port avenue
to North avenue.
Elizabeth avenue from Spring street to Smith
street, tagging the sidewalk eight feet wide.
For grading, curbing and guttering john street.
from Third avenue to Leroy street.
For tagging Broad street. from Salem street to
Waverly Place.
Adams avenue. from Port avenue to North ave-
nue.; South Broad street. from the stone bridge to
Pearl street, tagging the sidewalk eight feet wide
Williamson street from Broad street to the east
erly line of the Baptist Church property tagging
sidewalk eight feet wide.
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.
EAST GRAND STREET SEWER.
800 feet, more or less, of Pinch stoneware pipe
sewer
3manholes.
"a six-inch connections.
BOND STREET.
1900 lineal feet of tagging,
CHESTNUT STREET.
800 lineal feet of tagging.
JEFFERSON AVENUE.
1850 lineal feet of tagging,
ELIZABETH AVENUE.
1000 square feet of new tagging.
| 5000 square feet of tagging to be relaid.
JOHN STREET.
| 400 cubic yards of excavation.
100 hneal feet of curb.
| 100 lineal feet of gutter.
| BROAD STREET.
| 400 lineal feet of tagging.
ADAMS AVENUE.
| 5000 cubic yards of excavation.
'''' ''''' SOUTH BROAD STREET.
400 square feet of tagging, eight feet wide.
100 square feet of tagging relaid eight feet w1de
| WILLIAMSON STREET.
| 1000 square feet of tagging, eight feet wide.
Bidders will be required to bid for each street in
separate and distinct bid they will also be re-
ouired to bid on the time taken for the completion
of the work at the rate of S275 per day. for stone
ware pipe sewnr, and S2.25 per day for carb gutter
and tagging.
| The plans and specifications of the work can be
examined at the office of the Street Commissioners.
| Said proposal must be accompanied by bond
| executed by two or more ample, satisfactory ana
sufficient securities, resident in the country 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 or re-
fuse to execute such contratct, they Will pay 10 te
| CITY of Elizabeth any difference between the sums
| he or they would have been entitled to upon the
completion of the contract and that when the city
| of Elizabeth may be obliged to pay the person OF
persons by whom such contract shall be executed
| PAYMENTS viii be made in cash, monthly IN sums
not less than one thousand dollars as the work pro
| gresses on acertifcate of the City Surveyor, the
city retaining twenty-five per cent, winch Will DC
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 th'
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 SHAH b'
deducted from the amount due the contractor De
fore the final payment is made.
The CITY Council of the city of Elizabeth reserve
to themselves the rightto retain all bids which may
he offered until opened, and to reject any or all thu
bids for the above work, as they may deem best TO
the interest of the city.
L. H. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner.
! Elizabeth, May l, 1863. myl-5w