Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-23
oIrY AnyrRrIsnMENTs.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD oF STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS OF 4
THE CITY OF NEWARK.
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CITY HALL -
= Newark N. j., September 10, 1915
Sealed proposals Will be received at thi.
office from 3:1b to $3.50 o'clock p. M, OF
Thursday, the .twenty-hfth day OF september.
1913 and opefied at the last named hour, az
a public meeting of the board TO be neld
at said time and place:
For the paving of the following streets
~"O MARION PLACE,
from West Kinney street to about 3O2 feet
south of West Xxi Kin TY s stresEi
from Hawthorne avenue TO Lyons avenue.
The following is about the amount or the
furnished in the construction and completion
of said work. and upon which bids will be
compared:
Four hundred and fifty (46o) square yards
OF brick pavement on six (6) inch con.
crete foundation including one hundred t ana
to be included in price bid for pavement and
not to be paid for extra.
Twenty-Five (25, lineai feet OF 10 by o
Standard prices will be paid for the FOL
SIX hundred and twenty 1920 lineal feet of
new header curb, set in concrete.
Two (1) sets of 10 by inch four cut
corners, set in concrete;
One Il, basin with connection complete
FOR scH..EY STREET:
Eight thousand eight hundred tS.e00)
square yards IT brick pavement on six C6)
inch concrete foundation.
One hundred 400 lneal feet of 20 by
inch four cut curb. set In concrete,
Five thousand one hundred 20, lOO) nneal
feet of old curb four cut and reset in con-
Standard prices will be paid for the fol-
lowing:
ners, set in concrete.
One hundred 900 lineai feet OF new header
curb set In concrete.
Ten 0o) noiseless manhole covers.
One ID basin with connection complete.
Bidders are not to state any price Tor
materials and work for which there Is a
fixed amount provided for in the speclfica-
tions
Each proposal must be enclosed in n, a sealed
of the bidder and of the Improvement and
directed to the Board Of Street and Water
Commissioners of the City of Newark.
Bidders will state their prices in writing
as well as in figures.
Bidders must specify in their proposals
them. they will bind themselves to finish
and complete the same within the following
number of consecutive working Gays;
Marion Plaee-Twenty COD days.
schley Street-Eighty 500 days:
The plans and specifications of the work
can be examined at the office of the ,. chief
engineer of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners at the City Hail. SAID pro-
posals to be accompanied by the consent In
writing Of two suretes or surety frs company hy
shall at the time Of putting In such pro-
posais, qualify as to their responsibility in
the amount of such proposal. and bind them
selves 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 surcties for the faithful per-
Torrance of said work; and that, IL the
person or persons omit or refuse to execute
such contract. they will pay to the City OF
Newark any difference between the sums to
which he or theyN would have been entitled
upon completion of the contract and that
which the CITY of Newark may be Obliged to
paw the person or persons by whom such
contract shall be executed.
The Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners of the City of Newark reserve to
Themselves 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 28th, 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 sufficiency 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 SO approved and the president of
the board shall have the 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
nv any statement that may be made by such
proposed bondsmen. but shall have full
power and absolute discretion in the whole
to in any advertisement inviting bids for
such public work.
BY direction of the Board OF Street ana
Water Commissioners of the CITY of Newark.
MORRIS r. SHERRERD.
sep1o-12t Chief Engineer.