The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-26
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

BusrAu or YARps AND DOCKS, July 81, l845.
CEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Memphis
~ Navy Yard will be received at this once
until o'clock p of the 20th August next, for fur
work at the navy-yard, Memphis, Tennessee, a.
follows:
For making tho necessary excavation to reduce
the bluff TO the established grade of the yard, and
for grading Front or Chckasaw street. for furnish
ing materials and building about $500 perchcs YER
teal wall; for the delivery of IL, 300 pcrches stonc
sandstone, limestone, or both; for the necessary
piing on the eastern side of Wolf river to secure the
shore for the delivery of 272, 400 pressed brick
and 544 500 salmon brick for the delivery OF
l83 500 feet (board measure) 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
22l 900 cubic yards Of embankmcnt, and for clear
ing tho whole ground about thrtytwo acres) Of the
underground and trees.
Persons making offsrs must state the price per
cubic yard for excavation; the price per cubic yard
for embankment the price per perch OF twenty-five
cubic feet for vertical walls the price per perch
of twenty Eve cubic feet for stone; the price per
foot (lincal measure) for each kind Of timber for
piles when driven and finished according TO the
pan the price per thousand for each kind of brick;
the price per thousand feet board measure) for luu-
Der for the foundations Of buildings the price per
foot (ineal) for piles; the price per thousand feet
(board measure) for any wood work required, and
the price per perch for tho foundation walls. For
clearing, the proposals must state the gross sum for
the whole job the contractors 10 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 right of
diminishing or increasing the quantity of materials
and the amount of work in the several portions of
he k.-n -
ties of materials and the amount Of work be in
creased beyond the estimates, the saiie price as ID
specified for that kind or description OF materials or
work shall be paid to the contractor, and no more.
The materials and work must be subject TO in
spcction and approval Of persons be appointed by
and under instructions from this Bureau and none
will be received or approved which shall Not pass
Contracts and bonds, with two approved sure
ties in one-third the amount Of contract will be
quiscd, 70 be entered into within twenty days after
the notification Of 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 the satis-
factory completion of it, and ninety per centum of
all deliveries made, and work executed, will DO 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 surctics, whose responsibility must
be certified by the United States district attorney,
navy agent, or some person we'll 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 of Au-
gust next in the Union, Intelligcncer, and Consttu
ton, Washington, d. c.; Baltimore Republican and
Sun; Pennsylvania, 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 will be pleased to
send a copy Of the paper containing the above adj
vcrtisemcnt to this bureau.
July 2l--lawtA2l