persons filing such notice, together with the reasonable costs and expenses of any action or actions brought to enforce such claim or the lien created by the filing of such notice. The moneys so retained shall be retained by the said Commissioners until the lien created by the said act and the filing of the said notice shall be discharged, pursuant to the provisions of the said act. And the said contractors hereby further agree that they will furnish said Commissioners with satisfactory evidence that all persons who have done work or furnished materials under this agreement, and who may have given written notice to the said Commissioners, at any time within ten days after the completion of the work aforesaid, that any balance for such work or materials is still due and unpaid, have been fully paid or satisfactorily secured such balance. TWENTY-FOURTH.-Upon the completion of the whole work, the Engineer shall examine the same, and in case he shall find that all the matters and things herein provided to be done by the contractors have been done to his satisfaction, he shall make a certificate of that fact and file the same with the Commissioners, and shall also certify to the Commissioners the amount remaining due to the contractors upon this contract. Said certificate shall be final and conclusive upon the contractors unless the same shall be returned by the Commissioners to the Engineer for correction, and upon the same being corrected accordingly, such corrected certificate shall be final and conclusive upon the contractors. Upon the completion of the whole work in accordance with the requirements of this contract, and to the satisfaction of the Commissioners, and upon acceptance thereof by the Commissioners, and upon the filing of the certificate last above mentioned, and the performance by the contractors of all acts and things by this contract required to be done by them, and upon the Commissioners being satisfied of the correctness of said certificate, the Commissioners shall pass and forward to the Comptroller of the City of New York, for payment, a proper voucher, or proper vouchers, in form to be approved by said Comptroller, in favor of the said contractors, for the amount shown by said certificate to be due to the said contractors. TWENTY-FIFTH.-Whenever in this contract or in the specifications for said bridge, it is provided that anything is to be, or to be done, or as, or when or where "required" or "specified," it shall be taken to mean and intend" required" or "specified" (as the case may be) by the Engineer in charge of the work. Whenever the word "Engineer" is used in this contract or in said specifications, it refers to and designates the Engineer who may, by the said Commissioners, be appointed regularly, or for the time being to have charge of the construction of the work herein specified. TWENTY-SIXTH.-Nothing herein contained shall subject the parties of the first part, or either of them, to any personal or individual liability. In witness whereof, the parties of the first part and the said Myles Tierney have hereunto set their hands and seals, and the said Passaic Rolling Mill Company hath hereunto caused its corporate seal to be affixed, and these presents to be subscribed by its President, the day and year first above written. JACOB LORILLARD, Commissioner. [SEAL.] DAVID JAMES KING, Commissioner. [SEAL.] [SEAL.] MYLES TIERNEY. [SEAL.] PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CO. [SEAL.] On this 14th day of July, in the year 1886, before me personally appeared Watts Cooke, the President of the Passaic Rolling Mill Company, with whom I am personally acquainted, who, being by me duly sworn, said: That he resided at Paterson, in the State of New Jersey; that he was President of the Passaic Rolling Mill Company; that he knew the corporate seal of said company, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument was such corporate seal; that it was affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said company, and that he signed his name thereto by the like order as President of said company. On this 14th day of July, in the year 1886, before me personally came Myles Tierney, to me personally known, and known to me to be one of the individuals described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. EDMUND L. BAYLIES, Notary Public (80), New York County. HARLEM RIVER BRIDGE-SPECIFICATIONS FOR ITS CON STRUCTION. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. The bridge will consist of two arches of steel, each of 508 feet span in the clear; three piers, each 40 feet thick, at springing line of arches, with two abutments of masonry, the east abutment being about 342 feet long, the west abutment about 277 feet. Through each abutment will be a masonry arched passage of 60 feet clear span. The contract will include such excavation, embankment, grading, paving, etc., as may be required for complete connections between the masonry abutments and Tenth avenue on the west side and Aqueduct avenue on the east side. These connections to be graded, paved, curbed and drained. The total length of the bridge and its approaches will be about 2,373 feet. The clear width of the bridge 80 feet, 50 feet of which will be carriageway, and the remainder sidewalks of equal width. The piers from the rock foundation to a level 1 foot below ground line or low water shall be formed of dressed stone facing with an interior of concrete. The facing to be of granite in heavy courses. From this level to the springing line of arches the general construction will be the same, but the facing will be of granite of approved color and texture, with rusticated joints. Above the springing line the piers will be faced with coursed ashlar of gneiss, rock faced, with quoins of dressed granite. Courses may change the height occasionally on the long faces of the piers. Abutments will be faced with random coursed work of gneiss, or other approved stone, rock faced. ( All backing and cross walls of rubble. Ring stones ) of arched openings will be of cut granite, the rest of the arch of dressed gneiss; cornices, balustrades, etc., of granite. The roadway between Tenth avenue and the west abutments and Aqueduct street and the east abutment will be 80 feet wide, as on the bridge. Excavations for the road. way will be made 2 to 3 feet below grade, surface, earth or rock. Slopes of the roadway excavations and embankments which would extend outside the City's land 100 feet in width, must be supported by dry retaining walls of rock from the excavations. Slopes of embankments will be protected by slope walls 1 foot thick. The work will conform to the drawings exhibited and to such others, in explanation of details, or to conform to such new conditions as may arise, as may be furnished from time to time. The contract will include preparation of the site, excavation, embankment, masonry, iron and steel work, and the entire construction and completion of the work according to the plans and specifications, together with the removal of all rubish and surplus material. Excavations will include all material removed for foundations, for grading the ground adjacent to the bridge, etc. Rock in place which requires blasting, and boulders of more than 10 cubic feet, shall be classified as "rock;" all other material as "earth." But all excavation for the middle pier (No. 2) is to be classified as dredging, the price for which is applicable only to the net lines of the cofferdam required, and to the depth shown on the exhibited plans as depth of foundation of Pier No. 2. Excavations will be made to such slopes as may be directed by the Engineer, and be neatly finished. Embankments will be formed of selected earth carted in layers of 1 foot in thickness, each layer to be kept as nearly horizontal as may be, wetted and rolled with a heavy grooved roller-such rock as it may be necessary to use will be placed in the outer slopes, or if any is permitted under the roadway it shall not be larger than 16 inches in any dimension. It shall be placed compactly and all |