The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-01-30
Sealed Bids or Proposals

Sealed Bids or Proposals will be received at
! the Board of Freeholders Room In Morristown
New Jersey, on Monday the twenty third day
OF February nineteen hundred and three, at
| ten O'Clock in the forenoon, by Committee o.
the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County
of Morris, for lnacadamzing the following
/ roads or sections of roads in said County, viz:
| The MorrIstoWn and Green Village road.
BEGINNING at the corporate limits of Morris
town In SGn,H street ana e tbe ian th
aforesaid Green Village Road through Loan
taxa Terrace and Spring Valley to the Villase
Green at Green Village and there ending
The Boonton and Beavertown road. BEGIN
MING at a point in the middle of the road
leading from Boonton to Lincoln Park at the
division line between the townships of Mont
vile and Boonton thence extending in q
westerly direction following the line of the
aforesaid road it's several courses through the
township of Montville IT, the division line
between Montville and PequanDoc township
near the head of Beavertown Plain, distance
| of 22B00 feet.
A section of the Sussex Turnpike BEGIN
MING at point in the middle of said turnpike
| road at the intersection of the same with the
road leading from Ledgewood 10 Port Morris
| in the township of Roxbury, thence extending
| n q westerly direction following the line of
| the aforesaid sussex turnpike road through
the township of Roxbury a distance OF bSSu
The maps, proflles and specifications may be
seen at the Board of Freehoiders Room In
Morristown, New Jersey, where information
may be secured and blank bids and bonds OBJ
| tanned.
Each bid must be accompanied by a bond in
One Thousand Dollars with satisfactory SO
curity conditioned that II the contract shall be
awarded the bidder, he will. when required by
| the Board execute an agreement IN writing 10
Cations and bond In at least the contract
price to faithfully perform the work.
Bidders submitting bids on more than one OF
roads shall enclose the sane In separate
envelopes with the name of the road or section
for which the same Is submitted, and also the
compliance with this provision shall result In
| the rejection of the bid as Informal.
Bidders must submit an estimate by the
square yard on six inch macadam road.
samples of stone to be used by the contractor
must accou pany each bid and statement OF
the place where the same is obtained SO that
the Freeholders may enter and obtain
specimens If deemed necessary.
| The stone to be used in the work must be
taken from the same quarry as the sample
| All the stone used must be quarry trap rock
except as mentioned In the specifications
properly sized and screened, and contractors
work.
The material to be used must be equal in
quality to the sample of stone shown in the
Engineer's Office at Morristown.
Bids must be for complete work, including
No bids shall be withdrawn.
The price must be written In the bids and
| stated In figures.
Bids must be accompanied by the name and
residence Of the bidder.
| Each bid must be accompanied with an
affidavit that no person other than those
mentioned is interested financially therein.
Informal and "unbalanced" bids will be re-
jected. Bids will he rejected as informal tina.
do not cover and include all the work COM
pleted. including the necessary and proper
preparation for the foundation Of the road bed
contract and specifications and on the maps
and profles.
The attention of bidders Is particularly called
to the following resolution passed by the Road
Committee and the rights reserved therein.
Resolved, that In our proposals for bids the
right Is reserved to narrow or widen the road.
way to be paved whenever such change may
be considered advisable.
Bidders must satisfy themselves. by personal
examination or otherwise, of the nature and
extent of the work. the width, length and
depth of cuts and fills, the size and quantity
of drai pipe and the width, depth and extent
Of the CUTTERS and shall not at any time afte
the submission of a bid, dispute or complain
q misunderstanding In regard to the exca-
vations or fills, the work to be done or
materials furnished.
The right Is reserved to increase or diminish
the outs and fills along the line of the work
The right to reject any or all bids is especial
ly reserved,
The right to return all bids relating to any
one of the above mentioned roads before the
same are opened by the committee, Is hereby
G. A. BECKER,
Director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders,
Morris County, n. j.