The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-23
OFFICE of the Board of Street and Watei
Commissioners of the City of Newark.
CIT HALL

OFFICE Of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners Of the city of Newark
CIT HALL.
Newark, N. j., September II, 1909.
fee from a:f5 to $3.50 o'clock, p m, OF THURS Z
day, the twenty-third day of September, l"0s,
and opened at the last named hour, at a public
meeting of the Board to be held at said time
and place, for the construction of the Following
SOUTH SIXTEENTH STREET SEWER.
between Sixteenth avenue and a point about
200 feet south Of Fo9rteenth s-r aye saSe
between the terminus of the present sewer
about $50 feet east of Lawrence street to Null
The following is about the amount Of the
work to be don't, and the materials to be FUR.
nished In the construction and completion or
said work, and upon which bids will be COM
pared; ur,
Five hundred and sixty $500 feet of ten QO
inch vitrified salt glazed pipe sewer.
Two hundred and seventy (270) feet of eight
90 inch vitrihed salt glued pipe sewer:
Eleven hundred O,10O feet of six go inch pipe
house connections.
-Four a. manholes complete,
FOR SOUTHC CANAL STREET SEWER:
Four hundred and twenty N29l feet OF twelve
d2) inch vitriied salt glazed pipe sewer.
One hundred and forty ulW feet OF SIX ()
inch pipe house connections.
Two () manholes with noiscless heads,
Bidders are not to state e"y prlcs for ma,
amount provided for In the specifications.
Each proposal must be enclosed in a sealed
envelope, properly indorsed with the name OF
the bidder and 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
Bidders must specify In their proposals that
shouli the above work be awarded to them,
they will bind themselves to finish and com
plete the same within the following number Of
consecutive working days:
South sixteenth s~treet--Twenty 900 days.
South Canal ~Street-Eight C) days,
The plans and speciheati tons of the work can
be examined at the office of the Chief Engineer
of tho Board of Street and Water Commission
ers at the city Hall. said proposals to be ae,
NAp,Naalad bW rho consent In wiring of TWO
sureties. or a surety company qualified TO DO
business In New Jersey. who shall, at the time
OF putting ir such proposals, qualify as 10
their responsibility in the amount of such pro-
posal. and bind themselves that, If the contract
the proposal. they will. upon its being 80
awarded, become his or their sureties for this
the person or persons omit or refuse to execute
such contract they will pay to the City OF
which he or they would have been entitled
upon completion of the contract ana thas
which the City of Newark may be obliged TO
pay the person or persons by whom such con
tract shall be executed.
The Board of Street and Water Commission
es o. the City of Newark reserve to them,
selves the right to accept or reject any or all
proposals for the , above Work W e. o as they may
Bidders and sureties are hereby notihed that
under the provisions OF the seventh section
Of the law creating the Board OF Street and
Water Commissioners, approved March rs, 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-
hciency by the Board, and as to form by ths
counsel OF the Board, and no contract shall
be binding on the city or become effective OF
operative until such bond IL so approved; and
the President of the Board shall have power
10 examine the proposed bondsmen under oath!
IL he shall so desire, or shall be so Instructed
by the Board, but the Board win not be bound
by any statement that may be made by such
proposed bondsmen, 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
lie work.
BY direction Of the Board OF street and Water
Commissioners OF the City Of Newark.
NJ. r.
~sept1s-5t Chief Engineer.