Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-20
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS.
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF NEWARK.

THE CITY OF NEWARK
CITY HALL.
| Newark. N. j., August 18th. 1918.
| Sealed proposals will be received at this
| office from 3:15 to 830 o'clock p. M, Of
Thursday, the twenty-eighth day OF August.
1913, and opened at the last named hour, at
a public meeting of the board to be held
| at said time and place;
| NINETEENTH AVENUE,
from South Sixteenth street to the city line
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:
| Three thousand nine hundred g. 300 )square
| yards OF bitulithc pavement on a six cd
| Inch concrete foundation.
| Twenty-Five (25) lineal feet of 20 by inch
| four CT curb, set in concrete.
| One thousand eight hundred 1900 lneal
! feet of old Jour cut curb. reset In concrete.
Standard prices will be paid for the fol-
One ID set of 90 by 4 Inch four cut cor
Forty 400 ineal feet of new header curb,
set in concrete.
-Four % noiseless manhole covers.
One "a basin with connection complete.
clude price bid per square yard per year
for maintenance and repair of said pave,
ment during an additional and second
period of five 90 Years and under the guar
antee bond by a surety company or bond
with a surety acceptable to the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners which may
time before the expiration of the first five
ss THE ScoNTRAcT FOR THE WORK on
THE ABOVE STREET. IF AWARDED.
SHALL BE AWARDED PROFESSIONALLY
BY THE BOARD AND SHALL IMPOSE NO
LIABILITY UPoT THE GITY u NE
BE FINALLY MADE BY THE BOARD.
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS OF PROP
PR ISd SET ri fMPR re Is TO BIZ
MADE AND PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE
SAME BE HELD, AFTER WHICH THE
AWARD THE CoNTRAcT IN ACCORD
ANCE WITH CHAPTER 2tT OF THE
STATE LAWS OF 1875.
Bidders are not to state any price for
materials and work for which there 10
fxed amount provided for in the specihca-
tions.
Each proposal must he enclosed in a sealed
envelope. properly Endorsed with the name
of the bidder and of the improvement and
directed to the Board Of Street aud Water
Commissioners Of the City of Newark.
Bidders will state their prices In writing
as we'll in figures
Bidders must specify IN their proposals
that should the above work be awarded to
them. they viii bind themselves to finish and
complete the same within forty-hve f45) con-
secutive working 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 Hall. Said pro-
posals to be accompanied 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 pro-
posals qualify as to their responsibility In
the amount of such proposal. and bind them
selves that. II the contract be awarded to
the person or persons making the proposal,
they will. upon its being so awarded. become
his or their sureties for the faithful per
Torrance Of said work; and that II the
person or persons omit or refuse to- execute
such contract. they will paw to the City of
Newark any difference between the sums TO
which h. they would have been entitled
upon completion Of the contract and thar
which the City of Newark may be Obliged 10
pay the person 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 reject any
or all proposals for the above work as they
may deem best for the interest of the city
Bidders and sureties hereby notified
that urder the provisions of the seventh
section Of the law creating the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners approved
March 2Sth. 1891 that the bond bonds
to be given for the faithful execution and
performance of said public work shall fret
be approved to suffclency by the board.
and as TO form by the counsel of the board,
and no contract shall he binding the city
or become effective operative until such
the board shall have the power to examine
the proposed bondsmen under oath. If he
shall so desire. shall be so instructed by
the board. but the board will E3t be bound
by any statement that may be made by such
proposed bondsmen yut shall have full
power and absolute discretion in the whole
matter, and this provision shall be referred
to n any advertisement inviting bids for
such public work
By direction of the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners of the City of Nwark.
MORRIS r. sHERRERD.
aug14-f2t Chief Engineer