Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-03-30
cEALED PROPOSALS will be receive

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! = at the office of the Street Commissioner.
City Hall, until "Tednesday the 21st day of April
1869. at O'Clock p. NJ for the following improve
ments: n
For building a sewer in Railway avenue. from
| Broad street to the river.
| For building sewer in Grier avenue, to
point at OF near the Edgar turnpike road. -
| To regulate. grade aud curb Maple avenue, nom
Grove street to Garden street.
To regulate, grade and carb Garden street, from
Washington avenue to Maple avenue.
fsTo requisite and curb Grove street, from Wash
ington avenue to Maple avenue
| To regulate, grade. curb and gutter DeHart
place, from Jersey street to Railway avenue.
To regulate. grade, curb and gutter Morrell
street, from Elizabeth avenue to Jersey street.
The following is about the amount of work to
be done. and the materials to be furnished in the
construction and completion of said work:
RAILWAY AVENUE.
| $50 lneal feet, more or less, of 1S-inch stone
$50 Ineal feet, more or less, IL inch stoneware
| pipe sewer.
7manholes.
/ street basin.
| 20slineal feet 12-inch culvert.
GREER AVENUE.
500 ineal feet. more or less, is inch stone
ware pipe sewer.
$50 lineal feet, more or less, 15-inch stone
500 llneal feet, more or less, 12inch stoneware
pipe sewer.
| 20 manhoes.
| 1860 lineal feet, more or less 6-inch stoneware,
| pipe.
! street basins
| 100 lineal feet more or less. 12inch culvert
GARDEN STREET.
5000 cubic yards. more or less. of excavation.
3l00 lineal feet, more or less, of curb.
GROVE STREET.
270O lineal feet, more or less of curb
DEHART PLACE.
| 1snO prlhin words marc or 1acs of oxoovatiop
$500 linea feet, more or less, of curb.
$500 lineal teet more or less, of gutter
MORRELL STREET
1900 cubic yards, more or less, of excavation
| 1900 lineal feet, more or less of curb
| 400 lineal feet, more or less, Of gutter
MAPLE AVENUE.
1900 cubic yards more or less of exca vatBon
| 1850 feet, more or less, of curb
Bidders will be required to bid for e@eh street
in a separate and distinct bid; they will also be
required to bid on the time taken for the compile
ton of work at the rate Of $25 per day for stone
ware pipe sewer, and $2,25 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
bond, executed by two or more ample, satisfac-
tory and sufficient securities resident in the
county, in at least one-fOurth the sum specified
in the proposal for the periOrmaneeof the work,
should the contract be awarded to the person
making the proposal; and that if the person or
persons omit or refuse to execute such contract
they will pay to the city of Elizabeth any differ
ence between the sums 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 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 less than three thousand dollars. and
two dollars per day additional for every two
thousand dollars beyond that sum. Allpenalties
incurred shall be deducted from the amount due
the contractor before the final payment is made.
The City Council OF the City of Elizabeth re-
serve to themselves the right to retain all bids
which may be offered until opened and to reject
any or all the bids fer the above work, as they
may deem best for the interest of TIE city.
LII. HIGGINS, Street Commissioner
| Elizabeth. March 81, 1869. meg