The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-24
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

BUREAU or YARDs AND Docks, July 81, l845.
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed I" Memphis
~ Navy Yard" will be received at this Office
until o'clock of the Goth August next, for fur.
nlshing and delivering materials and for executing
work at the navy-yard, Memphis, Tennessee, "a
follows
For making the necessary excavation to reduce
the bluff to the established grade Of the yard, and
for grading Front Chickasaw street for furnish
ing materials and building about 1900 pcrches YER
teal wall for the delivery of l2300 perches stone
sandstone, limestone, or both; for the necessary
png on the eastern side of Wolf river to secure the
shore for the delivery of 272 400 pressed brick
and $4,000 salmon brick for the delivery Of
1873, 500 feet (board measures assorted lumber cy.
press white and yellow pine, for roofing and inside
work of buildings, for constructing the foundations
for nine buildings for various purposes; for making
22I 600 cubic yards of embankment; and for clear
ing the whole ground (about thirtytwe acres) Of the
underground and trees
Persons making offers must state the price per
cubic yard for excavations the price per cubic yard
for embankmcnt; the price per perch of twenty-five
cubic feet for vertical walls the price per perch
uftwenty- five cubic feet for stone; the price PEI
foot Qineal measure) for each kind of timber fol-
piles when driven and finished according to the
plan; the price per thousand for each kind of brick
the price per thousand feet (board measure) for um.
Der for trio foundations Of buildings the price pei
foo, llineaD for piles the price per thousand fee,
\uOdIu HcdbuIc) IOr any WOOu WOIk EcQuifcu, 1fu
the price per perch for the foundation @kils. Fol
clearing, the proposals must STATE the gross fol
the whole Job the contractors to have the wood
which is upon the ground. The gravel upon Front
or Chickasaw street must be preserved, and spread
again upon the street after il has been graded the
work to be paid for at the same rate per yard ex
cavation.
The department expressly reserves the Fight oi
diminishing increasing the quantity OF materials
and the amount of work IN tho several portions OF
the estimates here furnished; and should the quant-
ties Of materials and the amount Of work be in
creased beyond the estimates, the same price as is
specified for that kind or description of materials OF
work shall be paid to the contractor, and no more.
The materials and work must be subject to in.
spection and approval of persons to be appointed by
and under instructions from this BureauS and none
will be received or approved which shall not pass
such inspection.
Contracts and bonds, with two approved sure
ties in one-thrd the amount of contract, will be
qured, TO be entered into within twenty days after
the notification of acceptance Of the bid and ten per
cent. Of the amount Of all bids VIII be retained as
collateral security for the faithful performance OF
the contract which will be paid only on the satis-
factory completion Of il; and ninety per centum OF
all deliveries made and work executed will be paid
on all bills properly authenticated within thirty days
after their presentation to the navy agent.
Bidders are required to accompany their propo-
sails with evidence of ability, together with the
names of their sureties, whose responsibility must
be certified by the United States district attorney,
navy agent, or some person well known TO the
government; otherwise their proposals will not
be acted upon.
Plans Of the work can be seen, and such other in
formation as may be required can be obtained, by
application at the Engineers office, Memphis.
To be published once week until the 2lst or Au-
gust next in the Union, intellgencer, and Constitu.
ton, Washington, D. e., Baltimore Republican and
Sun; Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia; Morning News,
Evening Post and Journal of Commerce, New
York; Harrisburg Union; Morning Post, Boston;
Enquirer, Richmond, Va; Nashville Union; and
Memphis Appeal.
Propretors Of the above papers win lie pleased to
send copy Of the paper containing The above ad.
vertisement to this bureau.
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