New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-21

The undersigned respectfully submits the
following statement as comprising the bids
received in reply to advertisement inviting
proposals for landing improvements"
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steamship wharves per square =
$41 50 s3e 90 S38 so s33 so $39 IS SAG so
Ship wharves per square.
n5o $500 80 so $500 1915 3s15
Steamboat wharves per square.
$3.50 900 IL 90 IS 90 3ss IS so
wharves taken up and raised, per square.
1900 1880 l25 500 975 10 so
wharves taken up and relaid per square.
300 80 so 80 $50 $50
Laying floor per square.
1875 l4OO IS so 1000 1475 l450
Caps, per running foot.
IS 90 221e 25h IS &c &c
stringers, per rnnning foot
$500 22M 25k 10 26 &c
Braces, per running foot.
Piles, each.
u95 995 10 50 so 1915 II so
Revetment, new, per running foet
u50 $50 $50 so $50 925
Revetment, old, per running foot.
SIS $50 $50 225 AS so
Bulkhead. new, per running foot.
875 SIS $50 $50 $50 725
Bulkhead old, per running foot.
487 375 $50 50 375 275
Mooring posts, each.
60 90 Is 90 900 49, 90 5000 5000
Batture, cubic yard.
44a. 3sh 3ek 33E 37H 5h
New jetties, per running foot.
$500 ~ so 1000 100 200 % 50
Old piles, each.
500 so $50 200 500 50
For the first section the bid Of Eager,
Ellerman & Co. is the lowest, as Per sched-
ule. r.
For the second section, the bid Of Frank
CaserinO is the lowest; but he having by
written document abandoned the contract
and forfeited his deposit made as security,
oftwO thousand five hundred ($25Oe) dollars,
it is respectfully requested that the award
be made to Messrs Eager, Ellerman & Co.,
the next lowest bidders, as per statement.
For the third and fourth sections, Mr..
Carvin is the lowest bidder.
Pursuant to the above schedule and re-
capitulation, it is respectfully recommended
| that the accompanying resolution be
adopted, adjudicating the contracts to the
several parties heretofore enumerated as
the lowert bidders, and accepting the
securities respectively offered by them.
Very respectfully. etc,
j. r. WEST,
Administrator.
Resolved by the Council of the city of
| New Orleans. That the Mayor be and he is
| hereby authorized to enter into contract,
on behalf of the city. per nOtal1al act, be-
| fore the City Notary. for the recOnstructing
and improving of the wharves and land
ings of the city cf New Orleans, With:
/. Eager. Eilerman & Co.. as principal,
| and II. H. Stanley and George VI. Manson
| as surety, in the sum OF ten thousand dol
| lars ($lU,U0O), for the first section
| 2. Also, with Eager. Ellerman e. Co., as
| principal, and w. w. Walker AMI j. l.. Gu
| bernator as surety. in the SUN of fifteen
thousand dollars (Sl5,OOe), for the second
sectivn.
3. Also, with NJ Carvin as principal, and
Sam Smith l. Co. as surety, III the sum OF
| fifteen thousand dollars (Sl5,OW), for the
third section.
4. Also, with NJ. Carvin as principal, and
| Sam Smith Il Co. as surety, in the sum OF
ten thousand dollars 0,00O), for the fourth
section.
5. The whole to be contracted for at
prices quoted in the report of tie Admins
TRAITOR Of improvements. under date of the
nineteenth day Of July, 1870.
The Mayor asked if these resolutions
left it to the contractors to repair the
wharves wherever they pleased, or
were they to be restricted to sud portions
as the Administrator might designate.
Mr.. West replied that the Specifications
were very binding on the subject.
Mr.. Pierce asked how mach the work
would amount to.
Mr. West said there was no telling.
Mr.. Emley: understand thee is to be
as much or as little done as the Admins
traitor may direct.
Mr. West said he designed that the De
partment of Improvements should be kept
in communication with the Council, and
that the Council should be fully informed OF
the amount involved.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. West thereupon presentedthis'f
preamble and resolution:
WHEREAS, By advertisement dated June
16, 1870, by the Administrator d Improve
ments, for proposals for work II be done
upon the wharves and levees Of the city OF
New Orleans, it was made q condition OF
such proposals that bidders for section two
should deposit with the Administrator OF
Finance the sum OF twenty-five hunured
f$2500) dollars, as evidence Of their lnten-
ton to abide by the adjudication. and
Whereas, Frank CaserinO having bid for
said section two, and having made the de
post as aforesaid, and having by letter adj
dressed to the Administrator Of Improve
ments under date of July l, 1870 abandoned
his bid, and declined to enter tito contract
with the city according to the tems thereof;
therefore, be it
Resolced, That the aforesaid deposit OF
twenty-five hundred dollars ($25to) made by
Frank Caserino, be and is hereby declared
forfeited to the city, and the Administrator
| of Public Accounts is authOrizh to Issue
his warrant to the Administrator Of Finance
to receive the amount.
Adopted.
Mr.. Shaw presented the following ortii-
nance, which was read first AID second
time and laid over under the chatter:
An ordinance providing for the payment OF
the several accounts therein FAMED.
Be it ordained, That the following appro-
priations be and are hereby made and that
the Administrator of Public Accounts war
rant on the Administrator of finance IN
payment Of the same:
James A. Gresham. for Acts q 1870 tor
Office of Administrator of Accounts, 50.
The New Orleans Tribune, fol subscrip-,
ton for four copies for one year to first VI
June, 1871, $40.
John Brugniens, for gas fxturs and tit
ting in Office Of Administrator If Pubic
accounts, S226.
A. S. Collins, Sheriff of the parish of JEFF,