The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-23
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

BvsEAu or YAHps AND Docks, July 81, lS45.
q EALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Memphis
~ Navy Yard" will DO received at this Office
until O'Clock p Of the 10Th August next, for fur
nishlng and delivering materials and for executing
work At the navy-yard, Memphis, Tennessee, as
follows;
For making the necessary excavation to reduce
the bluff to the established grade Of the yard, and
for grading Front or Chickasaw street, for furnish
ing materials and building about 200 pcrches YER
teal wall for the delivery of 800 perches stone,
sandstone, limestone, or both; for the necessary
ping on the eastern side Of Wolf river to secure Tho
shore for the delivery Of 272, 400 pressed brick
and 544,9C0 salmon brick for the delivery Of
1873, 500 feet (board neasure) 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
aal 900 cubic yards of embanknenl; and for clear
ing the whole ground (about thrtytwo acres) Of the
underground and trees.
Persons making offers must state the price per
cubic yard for excavation the price per cubic yard
TOR embankment; the price per perch of twenty-five
cubic feet for vertical walls the price per perch
of twenty five cubic feet for stone; the price per
foot (lireai measure) for each kind of timber for
piles when driven and finished according TO the
plan; the price per thousand for each kind Of brick
the price per thousand feet (board neabure for um-
Der for the foundations pr buildings the price per
foot ineaD for piles; the price per thousand feet
tho price per perch for the foundation walls. For
clearing, the proposals must the gross sum for
the whole job the contractors TO have the wood
which is upon the ground. The gravel upon From,
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 rate per yard as exs
cavation.
The Department. expressly reserves the right Of
diminishing or increasing the quantity of materials
and the amount of work in the several portions Of
the estimates here furnished; and should the quanti
ties Of materials and the amount of work be in
creased beyond the estimates, the same price as is
specified for that kind description of materials
work shall be paid to the contractor, and no
The materials and work must be subject to in
specton and approval of persons to be appointed by
and under instructions from this Bureau and none
will be received or approved which shall not pass
such inspection. sStsE
Contracts and bonds, with two approved sure
ties in one-third the amount of contract, will be re-
quired to be entered into within twenty days after
the Notification or acceptance Of the bid; and ten per
cent of the amount Of all bids will be retained as
collateral security for the faithful performance Of
the contract, which will be paid only on the balls
factory completion Of il and nshetS 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 mist
be certified by the United States dintrct attorney,
navy agent, or, some pcraon we'll known to the
governments otherwise their proposals will no,
Be acted upon.
Plans Of the work can be seen, and such other in
formation may be required can be obtained, by
application at the Engineers Office, Memphis.
To be published once a week until the 2lst of Au-
gust next in the Union, Intellgencen and Eonstifa-
ton, Washington, d. CT Baltimore Republican and
Sun; Pennsy lvanian, Philadelphia; Morning Newu,
Evening POET, and Journal of Commerce, New
York; Harrisburg Union; Morning Post, Boaton;
Enquirer, Richmond, Va; Nashville Union; and
Memphis Appeal.
Proprietors Of the above papers will be pleased to
send copy of the paper containing the above ad.
vertisenent to this bureau.
July 2l-lawtA2l