Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-09
City Advertisements.
OFFICE of the Board of Street and Water Com
missioners OF the City OF Newark.
CNfv Hall

OFFICE of the Board of Street and Water Com
missioners OF the City OF Newark.
City Hall.
Newark. n. j.. September Q. 1910.
Sealed proposals will be received at this office
fifteenth day of September, 1910, and opened at
the last named hour, at a public meeting Of the
board to be held at said time and place. for
TREAT PLACE.
from William street TO Branford place.
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:
One thousand six hundred q 500 square yards
Of asphalt block pavement on a concrete
foundation;
Nine hundred 600, lineai feet of l6 by inch
-four cut curb, set In concrete:
Two hundred 5000 lineal feet of old curb,
four cut and reset n concrete.
STANDARD prices will be paid for the following:
one ID set OF l6 by 8 inch four cut corners set
in concrete;
Thirty-two 1922 lineai feet OF new header curb
Ten dO square yards OF asphalt repsving on
old concrete;
Ten d@ square yards of bituiithic repaving on
old concrete.
Bidders are not to state any price for ma
terials and work for which there Is a hxed
amount provided for in the specifications
Each proposal must be enclosed In a sealed
envelope, properly Endorsed with the name Of
the bidder and OF the improvement, and d.
rected TO the Board OF Street and Water Com
misEioners Of the City of Newark.
Bidders will state their prices in writing as
| well IN HRQTeS.
Bidders must specify in their proposals that
should the above work be awarded to them.
they will bind themselves TO finish and com
plete the same within twenty-five (25) consecu-
tive working days.
The plans and specifications of the work can
be examined at the office OF the Chief Fnginser
OF the Board OF Street and Water -comm,ssion.
es at the City Hall. Said proposals TO he az.
companied by the consent in writing OF two
sureties, o: a surety company qualified to dn
business in New Jersey. who shall. at the time
OF putting IN such proposals, qualify as to
posal, and bind themselves that, II the contract
be awarded TO the person or persons making
the proposal, they Will upon its being 20
faithful performance OF said work, and that n
the person or persons omit or refuse TO execute
such contract they Will pay to the City OF
Newark any difference between the sums 10
which he or they would have been entitled
Hhieh the City OF Newark may be Obliged no
pay the person or persons by whom such con-
tract shall be executed.
The Board Of Street and Water Commission
ers OF the City or Newark reserve to them
selves the right TO accept or reject any or ali
proposals fo- the above work, as they may
deem pest for the interest of the city
Bidders and s%ureties are hereby notified that
under the provisions OF the seventh section
Of the law creating the Board OF Street and
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-
heiency by the Board, and as to form by the
counsel OF the Board, and no contract shall
be binding on the city or become effective or
operative until such bond is 80 approved, and
the President OF the Board shall have power
TO examine the proposed bondsmen under oath,
II he shall! SO desire. or shall be so instructed
by the Board. but the Board Will not be bound
by any statement that may be made by such
proposed bondsmen, hut 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.
MORRIS r. SHERRERD.
sep9-5t Chief Engineer.