Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-15

CSEALED PROPOSALS will be received at
- the office of the Street Commissioner, City
Hall, until Wednesday, the 4th day OF August 1862
at O'Clock p. 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
Spring street.
1910 lineal feet of Tagging.
FIRST STREET.
To regulate, grade curb and gutter Pine street to
Port avenue.
100 cubic yards of grading.
400 lneal feet of curb.
400 feet of gutter.
RECTOR STREET.
To regulate, grade, curb and gutter, from Pearl
street to South street.
1900 cubic yards of excavation.
1875 lneal feet of curb.
1,575 lineal feet of gutter.
NEWARK AVENUE.
To regulate, grade and curo, 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.
2,7O0 lineal feet of curb.
CROSS STREET.
To regulate, grade, curb and gutter, from Port
street to Smith street
400 cubic yards of excavation.
1850 lineal feet of curb.
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.
$40 lineal feet more or less, 1S-inch pipe sewer.
26O lineal feet, or less, 15-inch pipe sewer.
900 lineal feet, more or less, Pinch pipe se"tr
mauholes.
l street basin.
DIVISION STREET.
To grade curb and gutter from High street to
Livingston street.
L. 500 cubic yards of excavation.
1000 lineal feet ot.curb.
1000 lineal feet OF gutter.
NORRIS AVENUE.
To sewer from Stiles street to the summit.
400 lineal feet more or less, Pinch pipe sewer.
4manholes.
Bidders will be required to bid for each street Ill
a 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 S2.25 per day Tor curp
gutter and tagging, S2.75 per day for pipe Sewers
The plans and specifications of the work can bt
examined at the Office of the Street commissioner
Said PROPOSALS must be accompanied by bond
executed by two or more ample, satisfactory iIhu
sufficient securities, resident in the county III az
least one fourth the sum speclhed IN INC protDsa
for the performance of the work, shoulu the CON
tract be awarded to the person making the propo
sal and that if the person or persons oiilt OF re
fuse to execute such contract they VIII pay 10 tit
CITY of Elizabeth any difference between the sums
he or thev wonld have been entitled to upon the
completion of the contract, and that winch INT
city of Elizabeth may be obliged to pay the person
or persons by whom such contract shai oe CA
| ecuted. :.
PAYMENTS will be made i'll cash, an sums
not less than one thousand dollars, as 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
| ixed therein, shall be three dollars, where the
gross amount to be paid the contractor shall be
less than three thousand dollars, ana TWO dollars
Nor 5av 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 OF
ali the bids for the above work, as they may deem
best for the interest OF the city.
l. II. HIGGINS, street COMMISSIONER
| Elizabeth, July 10, 1859 Jl3 wv