The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

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TO FARMERS AND OTHERS.- POTA-
TOES WANTED.—The GUARDIANS of the WEST
DERBY UNION are desirous of receiving TENDERS for the
SUPPLY of POTATOES to the Workhouse and Hospital, in
such quantities and at such times as may be required, be-
tween the 30th day of August instant and the nOth day of Sen-

tember next

The probable quantities maybe ascertained
on application to the Masters of the Workhouse and Hospital
respectively. _ _

Tenders,-with Samples, to be sent to the Workhouse on or
before TUESDAY next, the 29th instant, which Tenders will
be opened on the following day_
...By order of the Board,

In-clerk

I4IVERPOOL CORPORATION LANDING-
STA GE.
TO CONTRACTORS, SHIPBUILDERS (WOOD & IRON),

IRONFOUNDERS, BOILER MAKERS, &c.
The CORPORATION of LIVERPOOL era prepared to re-
ceive TENDERS from Parties willing to undertake to CON-
STRUCT, FIX IN PLACE. and COMPLETE ready for
Public Use, a NEW FLOATING LANDING-STAGE, to be
moored in the River Mersey, in front and parallel to the
Prince's Dock Parade or Quay Wall.
The Contract will comprise 63 Floating Pontoons, of the
very best boiler work, in length varying from 80 to 100 feet,
and weighing 1,200 tons, or thereabouts; 5 Wrought-iron
Kelsons, or Hollow Rectangular'Beams, each 1,000 feet long,
from 4 to 5 feet in depth, and 2 feet in thickness, the gross
weight of which will be about 1,200 tons ; 8 other Hollow
Beams of Wrought Iron, forming the girders of four bridges
connecting the stage with the shore, awl weighing about 260
tons ; 60 Tons, more or less, of Cast Iron ; and about 170 Tons
of Smith's Work, in knees, straps, bolts, spikes, mooring-
chains, &c. &c.; together with about 95,000 Cubic 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 Schedules of quantities, for the parties to
tender upon,. together with an Atlas of Detailed Drawings,
will be supplied to any party making application for the same
at the Office of the Surveyor, Town-hall, Liverpool, between
the hours of Ten and Four o'clock, on and after the Ist day of
September next. No Copies of the Specification and Draw-
ings will be allowed to be made, but a payment of Ten Gui-
neas will be required for the whole set.
Sealed Tenders for. the above Works, on the Duplicate Sche-
dule of Quantities which accompanies each Specification, are
to be delivered at the Town-hall, Liverpool, in sealed covers,
addressed to the Finance Committee, (and marked on the
outside "Tender for Landing-stage,") on or before the 13th
day of October, by Eleven 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 Twelve o'clock.

Each Tender must contain a-Sealed Letter, with the names
of two responsible Parties who are willing to become bound,
jointly and severally, with the parties tendering for the Con-
tract, in the sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds, for the due
performance thereof.
. .

The Corporation will not be bound to accept the lowest
Tender.

WILLIAM SHUTTLEWORTH, Town Clerk,
Town-ball, August 18, 1854.

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