The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-06
OFFICE Of the Board OF Street and Water
Commissioner of the CITY Of Newark. City

OFFICE Of the Board Of Street and Water
Hall.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office from 3:15 to 1880 o'clock p. m, OF Thurs
day. the eleventh day Of July. 1907. and
meeting Of the Board to be held at said time
and place, for dredging the
PASSAIC RIVER
between Listers Dock and Mount Pleasant
Cemetery.
The following is about the amount Of the
work to be done, and the materials to be
furnished in the construction and completion
Of said work. and upon which bids will be
twenty thousand co. ooD cubic yards Of
excavation.
Bidders are not to state any price for ma
terfals and work for which there is a fixed
amount provided for in the specifications.
Each proposal must be enclosed in a sealed
the bidder end Of the improvement. and d.
rected to the Board of Street and Water Com
missioners Of the city Of Newark.
Bidders will state their prices in writing as
well an in figures.
Bidders must specify in their proposal that,
should the above work be awarded to them,
they will bind themselves to finish and COM
plete the same within sixty (6O consecutive
The plans and specifications OF the work can
be examined at the ofice # the Chief Engineer
ers at the city Hall, Said proposals to be ac-
oompanied by the consent in writing of two
s sur s, or Us = surety company gu,alined to DO
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OF putting in such proposals. qualify as to
their responsibility in the amount of such pro-
9osai, and bind themselves that, IL the contract
be awarded to the person or persons making
the proposal, they will, upon its being so
awarded, become his or their ~sureties for the
faithful performances OF said work; and that IL
the person or perscns omit or refuse TO execute
such contract they will pay to the city Of
Newark any difference between the sums to
which he or they would have been entitled
upon completion of the contract and that
which the city of Newark may be obliged to
pay the person. or persons by whom such con-
tract shall bo executed.
Tha Board OF Street and Water Commission
ers Of the city of Newark reserve to them
selves the right to accept or reject any or all
proposals for the above work, as they may
deem best for the interest of the city.
Bidders and suretfes are hereby notified that
under the provisions OF the seventh section
Water Commissioners, approved March %. 1891,
that the bond or bonds to be given for the
faithful execution and performance of said
public work shall first be approved as to suf-
ncienry by the Board, and as TO form by the
counsel Of the Board. and no contract shall
| operative until such bond is so approved; and
the President OF the Board shall have power
to examine the proposed bondsmen under oath,
IL he shall 80 desire. or shall be SO instructed
by the Beard, but the Board will not be bound
by any statement that may be made by such
proposed hondsmen, but shall have full power
and absolute discretion in the whole matter.
and this provision shall be referred to in any
advertisement inviting bids for any such pub
lilo work.
BY direction of the Board OF Street ana
Water Commissioners Of the city of Newark.
r R. sHERRERD.
Jye-et Chief Engineer.