The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-25
OFFICE mo- -coNrRAcToRs.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Board Of Street and Water Commissioners. ON
Wednesday, May 31st, 1899. at 2 O'Clock P NJ,
IN the Assembly Chamber of the city Han
IMPROVEMENT OF STREET.
from Hudson Boulevard to Germania avenue.
Said Improvement to be made conforma5ly TO
the provisions Of Chapter 217 of the Laws of 1895
in accordance with specifications on file
Blank forms of bid and agreement OF sure
ties must be obtained at the office of the
Chief Engineer, in the City Hall, Jersey City
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
Standard
Of Cost.
About 1861 cubic yards of earth ekcava-
About 8 81 cubic adDis ya ids@ Of rock excavation.
About G ss9 cubic Shfa yards of sand filing, per -"
About bout 1s,s2s square yards Of Belgian paw
About s4s iineai feet Of curbstone, per
About BOUT s .Gs' square feet of Tagging. per
About IA square yards of repaving. per
About Is iineai feet Of reset and dressed
curb, per lineal foot -. Is
About 29o square feet of relaid and dressed
bridge stone, per square foot =. 10
About 3s2 square feet of relaid and dress
ed Tagging, per square foot ....... .z
About 60 lineal feet of cribbing stone, per
About receiving basin rebuilt and CON
: Fine alloMed for the completion Of the
work. IS working days.
The making Of the above Improvement ana
award of the contract therefor will be sub
jeet to the remonstranee of the owners OF the
property liable TO more than one.haI1 the as
sketch.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
velopes, endorsed Proposals for the Improve
ment OF Lincoln Street" directed to Mr..
Jas. S. Nolan, Chairman of the Committee on
Streets and Sewers and handed to the Clerk
OF the Board in open meeting when called for
in the order of business relating to sealed
proposals
posals (and a possible subsequent contrac0 ars
those of some surety company authorized TO
do business in the State Of New Jersey.
Bidders must state a single fixed percentage
of the hundred per cent. standard above quoted
do ali the work eomprehended in specifications.
and if final award of contract be made the
per cent. so stated will form the basis upon
which payment win be made for all items.
The Board may, under the provisions of the
act above cited, exercise the right to reject
The attention of bidders is especially called
, to Section I, Chapter 1874. of the Laws of 1891,
under the terms whereof no contract shall be
binding upon the CRY or become effective or
! operative, until the bonds offered by the con-
tractor have been approved as to sufficiency
by this Board and as to form by the Cor
poration Counsel, the President of this Board
having the power to examine the proposed
By order Of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners.
Clerk
Dated Jersey City, May goth. 1899.
HUDSON COUNTY ORPHANS COURT.
In the matter of the sale of lands of Alice
Tierney. deceased, for the payment of her
debts.
Edward Kenny. Proctor.
Nv virtue Of an order entered in the above
! stated matter, on the seventh day of April.
A. D.. 1883, l shall sell, at public vendue, on
the premises. on
| THURSDAY. the first day of June. A. D. 1899.
AT > O'Clock in the afternoon, all the following
daearibnd land and premises, with the ap-
nl,rfenances, being the same described in said
All that tract or parcel of land and prem
ises situated and being in the Borough Of
East Newark, Hudson County. New Jersey. de-
scribed as follows;-
recognizing on the northerly side of Soaring
street or avenue, at a point therein distant
easterlv one hundred and seventy-hve feet from
the corner Of the same and Passaie avenue, as
tbe same are laid cut on a map of the Scar
ing property, made out by E. Dunn, Surveyor,
March. 1860, and filed in the County Clerks
office of Hudson County. and from thence run
ming north twenty degrees and ten minutes
east ninety-fve feet thence south siSty-pine
de1rees and fifty minutes east twenty-five
feet thence south twenty degrees and ten
/ minutes west ninety-ive feet to the line OF
Soaring avenue aforesaid; thence along the
same north sixty-nine degrees and fifty mill
ntes west twenty-five feet. to the place of be-
ginning. and being lot No. SO on the aforesaid
map. 500
Da'eA B. F. WALSH,