The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-18
PRICES FOR ADVERTISING.
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS
April 1 ISI5.

| OFFICE or COMMISSIONER OF Public BUILDINGS
| April l. lS45.
| DROPOSALS will be received at this office, un
| i til o'clock, on Wednesday the Goth instant
for repairing and graveng Pennsy lvania avenue from
18th street west, TO the bridge Rock Creek and
making proper stone cutters and drains 10 carry Of
| the water from the same. The avenue must be pre-.
pared to receive the gravel by trimming Off the
plus earth at the sides four inches below the paving
and other places where II is too high, and filling the
holows so as 10 approximate TO the proper gradua-
ton of the avenue and where large rocks or stones
found in the same, they must be removed or re-
duced in size by hammering. The sides also, must
be e1cavated, where required, to proper depth to
receive the stone paving for the cutters, which must
be laid in bed of coarse sand eight inches deep.
The gravel must be of the best qualify 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 inches at the sides.
The old paving must be taken up and relad on a
bed of sand eight inches deep, where necessary The
proposals must state the rates at which the grave cling
(including the trimming and forming the road) and
the stone paving will be executed by the square yard
Also for taking up and relaying 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-
pose. The contractor will be required to enter into
completion of his contract by the 18th of August next
The proposals to be sealed and endorsed Proposals
for repairing and graveDg Pennsylvania avenue
from 9TH street west to the bridge Rock Creek
and making proper cutters and drains to carry of the
water from the
Proposals will also be received for repairing and
graveling the Pennsylvania avenue from the south
gate Of the Capitol square to 18th street east and
street south from th street east to 18th street east
and for repairing and graveling 9Th street east from
Pennsy lvania avenue to the Navy Yard gate width
of thirty feet more, the commissioner may de-
termne on; and for making the necessary stone
cutters. The gravel must be twelve inches deep in
the CENTRE and eight inches at the Sides prepared in
the described in the proposals for gravelng
from 18th street to Rock Creek bridge The propo-
sails must state the rates for gavelDg and stonepav
ing, (ncludng the forming of the road by the square
yard. The gravel must be Of the best quality, and
the work executed in the best manner, subject the
inspection and approval of such person 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
pleton of his contract by the 18th Of August nsxt
The proposals to be sealed and endorsed Propo-
sails for repairing and graveing the road from the
Capitol to the Navy Yard, and to the Congress Burial
Ground"
To be published once week, until the Both inst,
in the. Nat. lnteligencer, Msdsonan and Consti,u-
ton. April