Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-05-17
PROPOSALS Gill he rec

! CtEALED PROPOSALS will be received al
- the Office of the Street Commissioner, City Hall
until Wednesday, the Goth day of May 1869, 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 tc
For tagging Chestnut street, from Railroad 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.
3 manholes.
"a six-nch 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 lineal feet of curb.
100 lineal feet of gutter
BROAD STREET.
400 lineal feet offaggng
ADAMS AVENUE.
5000 cubic yards of excavation.
$500 liIeal feet of curb
SOUTH BROAD STREET.
fcf, Aoe, oifrlot foot
HOO square feet of tagging. relaid eight feet wide
WILLIAMSON STREET.
1000 square feet of tagging, eight feet wide.
Bidders will be required to bid for each street III
a separate and distinct bid they will also be re-
qured 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 $2.25 per day for carb 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 a bond
executed by two 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 if 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 one thousand dollars as the work pro
crosses, on acertifcate 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. 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 rightto 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. II. HIGGINS Street Commissioner.
| Elizabeth, May l, 1869. myl-3w