The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-11

lne lily can buy and own the fiterl1g pianti
lAnds, rights of way, and all apparfenahees
and easements necessary to the fushilnnent OF
these specifications. said price to ne stated per
million gallons Of daily capacity Of the tsiter.
ing piart. said purchase to take effect at Inc
expiration Of i've, ten or fifteen years ir95a
notice of It's intention to purchase six mouths
N adyanee Of such purchase.
The City will pay at the end Of each quarter
of the calendar year the sum due to the con-
tractor e such repositories as the contractor
CONTRACTOR TO MEASURE WATER.
Inc contractor shall measure the water az
the supervision of the representatives of the
city, who shall have free access to the meters
amount delivered the City shall pay the same
amount paid in the corresponding quarter OF
the previous year, and the disputed amount
shall be settled by arbitration. one arbitrator
to be named by the City, one by the CONTRACTOR,
Ine decision ola majority Of the three 70 Pc
mai II the amount so determined shall pc
fay he e eEaass maj a. a y sl paib d t isss tbe dir
ference shall be deducted from some quarterly
payment following the decision OF the arbitra-
tors. The water shall be measured as near as
may be to the point Of delivery into the pres
ent intake Of the Jersey City water WORKS,
Inc meter shall be Of a kind acceptable 10 ehe
CITY, and if found inaccurate at any time II
SNAIL ne changed on demand.
LIABILITY OF DAMAGES.
me contractor shall put up and MAINTAIN
such barriers and red lights as will eHectu-
his work. for which the CITY might be liable.
and he shall be liable for all damages occa-
Stored IN any way by his acts or neglect. or
USE OF PATENTED DEVICES.
Nj fees for any patented invention, article
any manner connected with the construction,
ereetlon Or maintenance of the work, or any
part thereof embraced in these specifications,
shall be included in the price mentioned in the
contract, and the contractor shall protect, and
demands for such fees or claims, and before
the final payment or settlement is made on &C
COUNT OF the contract the contractor must fur
tory release from all such claims.
WORK BE INDEPENDENT;
The water works must be SO constructed that
they may be used and operated to supply Jer-
sey City exclusively, and the contractor must
agree to furnish no water therefrom to any
consumer of Jersey City water
TIME TO COMPLETE.
The contractor will be allowed one year and
six months from the date of contract to com
piete the work and furnish the water specified.
For every days delay beyond the term of
contract, the contractor shall pay the City the
sum OF five hundred (s50O dollars per day as
iiquidated damages and not by way Of penalty.
All the time lost by reason of strikes, aecl-
dents or other delays unavoidable or beyond
the controhof the contractor, shall not be com.
the unavoidability of such delays Is certified
10 by. the Engineer appointed by the City to
RIGHT OF DOMAIN.
The City will agree to exert or exercise such
or otherwise as it now has or may hereafter
acquire, and which may be advantageously
used or exercised for the purpose of the con
tract, IN order to enable the use or acquisition
or such water and water-rights and lands and
other property. for the right of way. hltering
plant and other works or plant, as may be
necessary to the proper and convenient con-
struction and maintenance of said system of
water works to supply Jersey City, as afore-
said, said rights of condemnation to be exer-
cised in the name of the City, but at the cost
and expense of the contractor, and the con-
tractor shall pay and hold the City harmless
of and from all cost. expenses, claims and de-
mands Of all persons by reason of the taking
and III for n rnn IF tha Trn
posed contract Of ali lands, water, water
rights and other property. The City will also
agree to exercise, on demand of the contractor.
waters, tributary to the proposed works, but
all expenses attendant upon the prevention of
such pollution shall be borne by the con-
USE OF CITY LANDS.
The City will permit the contractor to occupy
and use exclusively, so far as may be neces-
sary for the purpose of constructing, operating
and maintaining the proposed fltering plant,
for the term and under the conditions of these
specifications, all of it's land lying between the
Passaie River and the first highway to the east
thereof and south of a line two hundred (20W
feet south of and parallel with the s~outherly
permit him to lay his conduits to- the present in
take and to connect herewith on City lands
not above included, but so as not to unnecessar-
lily interfere with the City's use of such lands
to operate its pumping station. If more land
shall be needed by the contractor he must ac-
quire the same at his own cost and expense.
INSPECTION.
The Engineer shall have the right to in
speet and test the character of the work
performed and the material used in con-
structing the water works, and the con-
tractor shall afford said Engineer reason
able facility for making such tests and in
s~pection. Defective work and material may be
condemned by the Engineer at any time be-
fore the final acceptance of the work, and
when so condemned it shall be Immediately
taken down and rebuilt in accordance with
the plans and specifications. When defective
material has been condemned it shall be at
once removed from the work and disposed of
to the satisfaction Of the Engineer.
rnninS of all MANS and UprEiD0 dra u-inC O.
prepared by the contractor for use on the
work shall be filed with the Engineer before
such plans and drawings shall be used in con-
struetion. If such plans and drawings do not
conform to the specifications they may be
rejected by the Engineer, and after such re-
lection they shall not be used on construction.
The contractor shall be served with a writ
ten notice from the Engineer to replace or
remove any rejected work or material or any
work or material which may prove defective
on the final test of the water works, or in their
use and operation priors.to the purchase there
of by the City, which notice shall designate
a reasonable time for the completion of such
replacement or removal, and if the contractor
shall neglect or refuse to obey such notice,
then tile City will replace or remove the same
at the expense Of the contractor ~~s
The final test of the works will be the turn
ing on of the water and its delivery in the
to the City. Under this test the works must
prove themselves efficient, iserviceable and dtlra-
BILE for the purpose intended.
III parts Of the works exposed to the eye
Without unnecessary ornamentation and saaIi
be Of thorough, proper. and Workmanlike con
struction, sound, solid and sufficient.
The specifications are intended to secure
frst-class material and workmanship through
out. Any workmanship or material not men
toned or described, which may be necessary
to make the works to be constructed com
plete. and in all respects of the best quality
and efficiency shall be furnished and performed
by the contractor as fully and thoroughly as
If the full d<tails and specifications therefor
had been gIsen herein.
When the work is completed the altering
plant and all structures connected Herewith,
and the drrounding ground, shall be cleared
Of ali n .pbish and temporary structures. and
left in a neat and presentable condition.
MAINTENANCE.
The COZ tractor shall maintain the water
works in\ ~ood condition and thorough repair
u'iu ABANDONMENT OF CONTRACT.
IF the Engineer shall certify that the rom
tractor has abandoned the work to be done
unnecessarily or unreasonably delayed. or thar
the contractor is wiIfully violating any Of
tha terms, covenants and agreements of fine
contract, or is not executing this contract in
az to Indicate it's completion within the re-
ouired time, then the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners shall have the power ana
right to notify the contractor to discontin1ie
tract. and upon such notification said con-
tracfor shall discontinue said work. or srob
Y,arts thereof as said Board may desisnate.
and said Board shall thereupon have the nower
To complete the same at the cost and EXPENSE
IF fhe Contractor; and the expense so charped
shall be deducted and paid by said Board ont
Of such moneys as may be due or heconoe
due at any time thereafter, to said oontran-
for under this contract or any part thereof
In case such expense is less than the sim,
which would have been payable under mis-
contract. il the same had been Completed nv
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