The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-15 00:00:00

Contracts.

rpRE COMMITTEE of the LIVERPOOL _ROYAL
INFIRMARY are ready to CONTRACT for WRITE-
WASHING and COLOURING at the' INFIRMARY and LOCK
HOSPITAL.. Particulars ef the work required to be dome may
Le obtained at the respective institutions.
Tenders specifying a separate price for each house must,
_be
'sent in addressed to the "Chairman of the Committee," on: or
before Wednesciay,the 16th May.
EDWARD GIBBON, Chairman.
Mar 3, li6o.

WEST DERBY t,i.TON.—TO PLUMBERS.
HE Guardians of the • West Derby "Union are-
desirous of COINTRSCiffING for the REPAIRS and
lI,LEPING IN ORDER of PLTNIIERS' WORK in and about
the WorkhottAelffTCWorklitnite far .the Sick Poor, gititatte in
Mill-road and West Derby-road rebpe;tively, for the enbuing
year. Tenders. sealed and marked "Plumbing," (whielsmust
13,e made in the form to bo obtaftwed• at m 7 office,) to be seat to
lot-street,
r_hq on or before. the 22nd instant, and will be opened on the
iel!owing. day. ,By order of the Boxtif
, WILLIAM CLEOIR, Union Clerk.
2 fli• Liverpool, 9th May, 1880. 3n171518&22

3EitSEYDOCK KSTATE.—BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.
TT
tli MERSEY DOCKS. & HARBOR BOARDE
do HREBY GIVE NOTICE, that it is eXpectecr that
ger 4n-let-irito-the-Gre .at_Eloat, at lirkenlifitdi in' aTh
September next. The Board mire ready to receive APPLIC.i-
vioNs from .Parties desirous of RENTEgG LEWNG,
INIRTIQNS of LAND on the. north side of the said Fleet,.
an westward,6f the proposed Duke-street, Bridge, of which'
plank may be seen at this Office. - The Applications to seste.
the quantity that will be required, the purpose to which it in
intended to be appronelated, and the proposed duratien of the
tenancy, and to be Sent into this Office, endorsed "Application
for Land at Birkenhead." Dv order,

DANIEL MASON, Seeretary
Deck-office, Liverpool, 24th March, 1860.

MERSEY DOCK ESTATE.
BIRKENHEAD --WOODSIDE LANDING-STAGE.
-TO CONTRACTORS, - SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER-
MAKERS, &c.
THE MERSEY DOCKS and HARBOUR BOARD
are prepared to receive TENDERS from Parties willing
fixin place, and complete, ready
LANDING-STAGE, to It;t•
tf:runpidther
ueset,oaconnewstri,
FLOATING
moored in the River Mersey, in front of, and parallel to, the-
new Dock Wall, at Woodside Basin.
The Contract will comprise fifty /oating pontoons, of the
very best hailer-Work. in length varying from SO to 101 feet,
arm veighing 980 tons, or thereabouts ; five wrought-iron
kelsons, or hollow rectangular beams, each 800 feet long, from
3 to 5 fact in depth, and 2 feet in width, the gross weight of
which will be:1,39 tons, or thereabouts ; five other hollow beams,
of wrought iron, forming the girders of two bridges connecting
the stage with the shore, mil weighing about 234 tons ; 10.5
tame;-more or less, of cast iron ; and about 141 tons of smiths'
work, in straps, boltsc spilces, mooring chains, &c. ; together
with emit 80,000 calite feet of timber, in deck beams, decks,
&c., wrought, fixed in place, and painted.
A Specification of the works and conditions of contract, with
duplicate schedlies of • quantities for the parties to taindsr
upon, together with an atlas of detailed drawings, will be sup-
plied, upon the parutot of seven guineas, to any party making
application for the same, at the office of the dock secretary,
-.Revenuc-buildings, -Liverpool, between the hours of ten and
fOur, on and after. Monday, the 7th day of May
bet; and any
further informal stn: that may be fequircd can obtained on
application_to Mr. John B. Hartley, Engineer to the Mersey
Dock Board, at his office, Dockyard, Coburg Dock.
Sealed Tenders for the above works, on the duplicate
schedule of quantities which accompanies each specification,
are to-be delivered at the Secretary's office, in sealed covers,
addressed to the " Chairman• of the Committee of Dock
Works," and marked on the outside "Tender for Landing-
stage," on or before Saturday, the 26th day of May inst.,
at Ten o'Clock, a.m., after which. hour on that day no Tender
will be received. Parties or their agents, to be in attendance
on that day at Eleven o'Clock.
Each Tender must contain a sealed letter with the names of
two responsible parties who are willing to become bound,
jointly ad severally with the party tendering for the Contract,
in the stun of- Twenty Ithiousand Pounds for the due perform-
ance thereof.
The Board will not be hound to accept the lowest or any of
the Tenders. : By order,
DANIEL MASON, Secretary.
Dock-office, 7th April, 1860.