The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-04
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
Office of the Chief Commissioner of Highwaya
until IL o'clock NJ. on FRIDAY, 5th instant
for the construction of a sewer on the line of
EIGHTH STREET, from Vine street to
On On NINTH STREET, from Wood street 70
Willow street.
On PHILIP STREET, from a point sixty
feet south of Diamond street to Norris
street.
On MASTER STREET, from Mascher street
to west curb line of Front street.
On CHERRY STREET, and on the line OF
Kershaw street from Fifteenth street to Race
street
On PINE STREET, from Ninth street to Tenth
street.
On CHEsNUT STREET, from Nineteenth
street to Twentieth street.
On SEVENTEENTH STREET, from Mount
Vernon street to Wallace street.
On THIRTEENTH STREET, from Coates
street to Olive street, and
On OLIVE STREET, from Thirteenth street
On SEVENTH STREET, from Coates street
to Brown Street.
On THIRTEENTH STREET, from Columbia
to Montgomery avenue.
ON FORTY-sECOND STREET, from Balti-
more avenue to Klpgsessing avenue.
On THIR1 Y-SEVENTH STREET to Irving
street, thence up Irving street to Thirty-eighth
street.
The foregoing Sewers to be three feet in
diameter, aud to be constructed in the usual
form.
On GERMANTOWN AND sUsQUEHANNA
AVENU ES, frem Sixth street to point 4S5 feet
north of Susquehanna avenue on the said Ger
mantown avenue, and
On SAMSON STREET, from Thirty second
street to Thirty-Aird street. to be two feet six
inches In diameter.
With such manhole as may be directed by
the Chief Engineer aud Surveyor. The under
standing TO be that the. sewers herein advsr-
tised are to be completed on or before the 3ist
daV of nAQAmlRr at he rac4ap
shall take bills prepared against the property
fronting on said sewer to the amount of oae dol
lar aud hfty cents for each lineal foot of
front on each side of the street as SO much
cash pad the balance, as limited by ordinance,
to be paid by the city; and tue contractor will
be required to keep the street aad sc wer in good
order for three years after the sewer u
finished.
When the street Is occupied by a city passen-
ger railroad track the sewer shall he constructed
alongside of said track In such manner as not to
obsruct or Interfere with the safe passage of the
| cars thereon; and no claim for remuneration
shall be paid the contractor by the company
| using said track, as specified in the Act of
| Assembly approved May s. 1866.
Each proposal NUT be accompanied by q cer-
| tifcate that bond has been filed in the Law
Department. as directed by ordinance of May
| 25 1850.
| If the lowest bidder shall not execute
contract within five days after the work
| is awarded, he will be deemed as declining, and
will be held liable on his bond for the differ
! ence between his bid aud the next lowest bid
| der. specifications may be had at the De-
! partment of Surveys, which will be strictly
adhered to. The Department of Highways re-
serves the right to reject all bids not deemed
! satisfactory
All bidders may be present at the time and
! place of opening the said proposals. No al-
! lowance will be made for rock excavation,
! except by special contract.
MAHLON H. DICKINSON
533t Chief Oom'r OF Highways.