Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-02
CITY ADVERTISEMENTS
OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF NEWARK.
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OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STREET
AND WATER COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF NEWARK.
CITY HALL.
Newark, N. j., January 2, 1914.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office from 3:15 to 1880 o'clock p. m. of
Thursday, the eighth day of January, 1914,
and opened at the last named hour, at
public meeting of the board to be held
at said time and place;
FOR the ''n HUSTSR 8 srRE sfH'f IN
NEW JERSEY RAILROAD AVENUE,
between Avenue A and Earl street.
The following is about the amount of the
work to be done and the materials to be
furnished in the construction and compile
ton of said work. and upon which bids will
be compared
iron pipe sewer.
Six hundred and twenty (s2o) feet of If
teen q5) inch vitrihed, salt glazed. double
Five hundred and thirty $500 feet of
twelve Q2) inch vitrihed, salt glazed pipe
sewer.
Forty t4O) feet of eight (s) inch house
connections.
Fifteen (15) feet of six (s) inch house
connections.
Six (8) manholes with standard heads
complete.
One hundred 900 cubic yards excavation
for ditch.
Three (S) basins with concrete heads com
plete
fixed amount provided for in the specihca-
lions.
Each proposal must be enclosed In
sealed envelope, properly indorsed with the
name 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 in figures
Bidders must specify in their proposals
them. they will bind themselves to finish
and complete the same within twenty-five
(25) consecutive 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 COM
pany qualified to do business in New Jersey.
proposals, qualify as to their responsibility
in the amount of such proposal and bind
themselves that, If the contract be awarded
! to the person or persons making the pro-
posal they will, upon its being awarded,
become his their sureties for the faithful
performance of said work; and that, IL the
person or persons omit refuse to execute
such contract, they Will pay to the city of
Newark any difference between the sums
to which he or they would have been en-
titled upon completion of the contract and
that which the city Of Newark may be
obliged to pay the person or persons by
whom such contract shall be executed.
| The Board of Street and Water Comms-
soners 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 under the provisions of the seventh sec
ton OF the law creating the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners, approved March
18th, 1891. that the. bond or bonds to be
given for the faithful execution and per-
Torrance of said public work, shall first be
approved as to sufficiency, by the board
! and as to form. by the council of the board
and no contract shall be binding the
city or become effective or operative until
such bond is approved; and the president
= ard haI rnpy IN amin fIa
proposed bondsmen under OATH IL heS 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
lany such public work.
BY direction of the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners of the city of Newark.
| NORRIS r. SHERRERD,
| 1an2-5t Chief Engineer