Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-30

OFFICE Of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners of the CITY of Newark.
city Hall.
Newark, X. j., December %, 1910.
Sealed proposals win be received at this Of
fee from 3:15 to $3.50 O'Clock p. m, Of Thurs
day, the twenty-nlnth day of December. 1910.
and opened at the last named hour, at a public
meeting Of the board TO be held at said time
and place, for the grazing, curblng and flag
ging of the south side of
HERBERT LAC
from Washington avenue TO Riverside avenue.
The following is about the amount of the
work TO be done, and the materials to be fur
nished in the construction and completion OF
said work. and upon which bids will be COM
pared:
ment;
Eleven hundred and ten CLIO iineai feet Of
20 by 4 inch four cut curb set in concrete;
One ID set of 20 by 4 inch four cut corners
set in concrete;
One hundred 900 lineal feet of old curb
four cut and reset in concrete;
One thousand 1000 rquare feet of tagging,
six 90 feet wide:
Five hundred t5oW square yards of trap rock
gutter paving on sand.
Bidders are not to state any price for ma
terials ard work for which there is a fixed
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 di-
rected to the Board of Street and Water Com
Missioners of the City OF Newark.
Bidders win state their prices in writing as
we'll as In figures.
Bidders must specify In their proposals that
should the above work be awarded to them,
they will bind themselves to finish and com
pleto the same within thirty 500 consecutive
working days.
rhe plans ami specifications of the work can
be examined at the office OF the Chief Engineer
OF the Board of Street and Water Commission
ers at the City Hall. Said proposals to be ac-
companied by the consent in writing of two
sureties, or a surety company qualified to do
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-
posal, and bind themselves that, If the contract
be awarded TO the person or persons making
the proposal. they will, upon Its being 90
awarded, become his or their s~uretles for he
faithful performance of said work, and that n
the person or persons omit or refuse to execute
such contract they viii pay to the City of
which he or they would have been entitled
upon completion of the contract and that
which the City of Newark may be obliged to
lay the person or persons by whom such con
tract shall be executed.
The Board If Street and Water Commission
ers of tho 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 ~sureties 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 he given for the
faithful execution and performance of said
public work shall first be approved as TO SUI
hciency 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 oil
operative untH such bond is 80 approved. and
the President of the Board shall have power
to examine the proposed bondsmen under oath
IL 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. 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.
Commissioners of the City OF Newark.
MORRIS r. sHERRERD,
dec2a-st Chief Engineer.