Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-07-25
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
BUREAU or YARDS AND DOCKS,

JULY Ill 1OfC.
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed memphis
- Navy Yard" will be received at this Office
until o'clock, p. NJ. oflhe 10Th August next
for furnishing and delivering materials and for
executing work at the Navy Yard, Memphis,
Tennessee, as follows:
For making the necessary excavation 10 reduce
the bluff to the established grade The ward, and
for grading Front or Chickasaw street; for iurn-
lshins materials and building about 5000 rerches
vertical wall; for The delivery OF 1920 perches
stone, sandstone limestone, or BOTH for The ne
cessary piling on The eastern side OF Wolf river
TO secure The shore; for The delivery Of 272 400
pressed brick and 544, 300 salmon brick; for the
delivery of lS, 500 feet (board measure) assorted
lumber cypress, while and yellow pine for roof
ing and inside work ofbnildings; for constructing
the foundations for nine buildings for various
purposes; for making 22l 900 cubic yards OF en-
bankment; and for clearing the whole ground
(about lhirty-wo acrcs) OF The underground and
trees.
Persons making offers must stale the price rer
cubic yard for excavation; the price per cubic
yard for embankment; the price per perch of
twenty-five cubic feet for vertical wall; The price
per perch oflweniy-fve cnhic feet for stone; the
price per !oo lineal measure, for each kind Of
timber ioI piles when driven and finished ac-
cording to the plan; The price per thousand for
each kind Of brick; the price per thousand feet,
board measure, for lumber for the foundations OF
buildings; the price per foot, lncal, for piles;
The price pr thousand fee;, board measure, Tor
aay wood work required, and The price per perch
for the foundation walls. For clearing, the pro-
posals must stale the gross sum for The whole
Job; the contractors 10 have the wood which is
upon the ground. The gravel upon Front or
Chckasaw street mus, be preserved. and spread
again upon The street after il has been graded;
The work to be paid for al the same rate per yard
as excavation.
The Department expressly reserves The right
OF diminishing or increasing The quantity OF ma
ierials and The amount oil work in the seveTa por
iions of the estimates here furnished; and should
the quantities Of materials and the amount of
work be increased beyond The estimates, The same
price as is specified for that kind or description Of
materials or work shall be paid 10 The contractor,
and no more.
The materials and work must he subject 10 in
spection and approval OF persons 10 be appointed
by, and under Instructions from, this Bureau; and
none will he received or approved which shall not
pass such inspection.
Contracts and bonds, with two approved sure
ties in one-third the amount OF the contract will
lie required, 10 be entered into within twenty days
after the notification of acceptance OF the bid; and
ten per cent. of the amount OF all bills will be re-
tanned as collateral security for the faithful per-
on the satisfactory completion OF it; and ninety
per centum OF all deliveries made and work exc
cnted will be paid on all bills properly auihenli-
Gated within thirty days after their presentation 10
the Navy Agent.
Bidders are required 10 accompany their prcpo-
sails with evidence OF ability, together with the
names OF their sureiies whose responsibility must
be certified By the United States District Auor-
ney, Navy Agent, or some person well known 10
the Observation-Disclosures their proposals Will
not be acted upon.
Plans of the works can be seen, and such other
Information as may be required can be obtained,
BY application at The Engineers office, Memphis.
To be published once week until the Dist OF
August next in The Union, Inellgencer, and Con-
stilulon, Washington, D. c.; Baltimore Repuh-
lican and Sun; Pennsylvania, Phladelphia;
Morning News, Evening Post, and Journal Of
Commerce, New York; Harrisburg Union; Morn
ing Post, Boston; Enquirer, Richmond, Va;
Nashville Union and Memphis Appeal.
Projectors of the above papers will be pleased
10 send copy Of The paper containing The above
advertisement TO This Bureau.