The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-15
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUILpINGs

OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS
April /, lS45.
PROPOSALS will be received at this Office un.
L til 3 O'Clock, on Wednesday the 30th instant
faS repairing and gravelng Pennsy vania avenue from
18th street west to the bridge Rock Creek, and
making proper stone cutters and drains to carry Oh
the water from the same The avenue must be pre-.
pared to receive the gravel by trimming of the sur
plus earth at the sides; four inches below the paving
and other places where it is too high, and filling the
hollows SO as 10 approximate to the proper gradua-
ton of the avenue and where large rocks or stones
are found in the same, they must be removed
duced in size by hammering. The sides also, must
be excavated, where required to proper depth to
the stone paving for the CUTTERS which must
be laid in a bed of coarse sand eight inches deep
The gravel must be of the best quality, and be spread
regularly and evenly and the large stones raked into
the hollows and covered with fine gravel and round
ed from gutter to gutter. The gravel to be twelve
inches deep in the CENTRE and SIX inches at the sides
The old paving must be taken up and relaid a
bed of sand eight inches deep, where necessary The
proposals must state the rates at which The gravelng
(including the trimming and forming the road) and
the stone paving will be executed, by the square yard
Also for taking up and relaying as much OF the old
stone paving as may be necessary
The work to be executed in the best manner, and
subject to the inspection and approval of such per-
son as the commissioner may appoint for that pur'
rose The contractor will be required to enter into
a bond with two sufficient suretes for the faithful
completion of his contract by the 18th of August next
The proposals to be sealed and endorsed proposals
for repairing and graveling Pennsylvania avenue
from 18th street west the bridge Rock Creek
and making proper cutters and drains to carry of the
water from the same.
Proposals will also be received for repairing and
crawling the Pennsylvania avenue, from the south
gate of the Capitol square to 18th street east and
south from tn street east TO 18th street east
and for repairing and gravcling 9Th street east from
Penpsy lvania avenue to the Navy Yard gate, width
of thirty feet or more, the commissioner may de-
termne on and for making the necessary stone cross
cutters. The gravel must be twelve inches deep II
the CENTRE and eight inches at the Sides prepared in
the manner as described in the proposals for crawling
from 18th street to Rock Creek bridge. The Propo.
sails must state the rates for gavelng and stonepay
ing (incudng the forming of the road by the square
yard The gravel must be of the best quality, AID
the work executed in the best manner, subject to the
inspection and approval of such person as the com
missioner may appoint for that purpose
| The contractor will be required to enter INTO
bond with two sufficient suretes for the faithful com
pletion Of his contract by the 18th OF August next
The proposals to be sealed and endorsed Propo
sails for repairing and crawling the road from The
Capitol to the Navy Yard and to the Congress Buria
| Ground"
To be published once a week, until the 3Oh inst
in the Nat Intelligencer, Msdisonian and Constltu
ton. April