The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-03
HIGHWAY PROPOSALS..
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

NOIlCE III CONIRACIOkS.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
Office of the Chief Commissioner of Highways,
until IL o'clock M. on FRIDAY, 9Th instant.
for the construction of a sewer on the line of
EIGHTH STREET, from Vine street to
On NINTH STREET, from Wood street to
Willow street.
On PHILIP STREET, from point sixty
feet south of Diamond street to Morris
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
On CHESTNUT 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
to Broad 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 Kingsessing 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
On IN GERMANTOWN AND sUsQUEHANNA
AVENUES, from 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-thira street, to be two feet six
| inches in diameter
With such manholes as may be directed by
the Chief Engineer and Surveyor. The under
| standing to be that the sewers herein adyer-
| tised are to be completed on or before the Slst
| day of December, 1871, and that the contractor
| shall take bills prepared against the property
| fronting on said sewer to the amount of oAe dol
lar aud fifty cents for each lineal foot OF
| front on each side of the street as SO much
| cash paid; the balance, as limited by ordinance,
! to be paid by the city; and the contractor will
| be required to keep the street and sewer in good
order for three years after the sewer Is
| finished.
When the street Is occupied by city passen-
! ger railroad track the sewer shall he constructed
| alongside of said track in such manner as not to
obstruct 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 must be accompanied by GER
| tificate that bond has been filed in the Law
Department as directed by ordinance of May
If the lowest bidder shall not execute
| q 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 and 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,
5S3t Chief Com'r of Highways.