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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

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OFFICE of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners OF the CITY OF Newark. City
Newark, N. j.. July s, 1907.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office from 3:15 to $3.50 o'clock p. m. of Thurs
day, the eleventh day of July 1907 and
opened at the last named hour at q public
meeting OF the Board to be held at said time
PASSAIC RIVER
between Listers Dock and Mount Pleasant
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
compared:
Twenty thousand t2O.OOO cubic yards of
excavation.
Bidders are not TO state any price for ma
terals and work for which there is fixed
amount provided for In the specifications,
Each proposal must be enclosed in a sealed
envelope. properly indorsed with the name OF
the bidder ana If 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 in figures.
should the above work be awarded to them.
they will bind themselves to finish and COM
plete the same within sixty (eO consecutive
The plans and specifications of the work can
be examined at the office II the Chief Engineer
Of the Board OF Street and Water Commission
ers at tho City Hail. Said proposals to be ac-
conpanied by the consent in writing of two
huTetleS or n surety tOnpHHy quailHou 10 uu
business in New Jersey, who shall, at the time
OF putting In such proposals. qualify as to
their responsibility in the amount of such pro-
oosal, and bind themselves that. II the contract
be awarded TO the person or persons making
the proposal they Will, upon its being 80
awarded, become his or their suretes for the
faithful performance OF said work. and that II
the person or per sofs omit refuse to execute
such contract they will pay to the city OF
Newark any dfrerence between the sums to
which he Or they would have been entitled
upon completion Of the contract and that
prii oh tba NJ ~ No rlr nan "a
pay the person persons by whom such con-
tract shall b. executed.
Ths 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 surcties are hereby notified that
under the provisions OF the seventh section
of the law creating the Board of. Street and
Water Commissioners approved March 2S, 1891,
that the bond bonds to be given for the
faithful execution and performance OF said
public work shail frst be approved as to sur
fciency by the Board. and as to form by the
counsel OF the Board. and no contract shall
be binding the city or become effective OF
operative until such bond Is so approved; and
the President Of the Board shall have power
to examine the proposed bondsmen under oath,
by the Beard, but the Board will not be bound
by any statement that may be made by such
proposed Eondsmen, but shall have fun power
and absolute discretion In the whole matter,
and this provision shall be referred to in any
advertisement. inviting bids for any such pub
lie work.
BY direction Of the Board Of Street and
Water Commissioners of the city of Newark.
MORRIS r. SHERRERD,
jy5-5t Chief Engineer.