The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-30
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.


BUREAu or YARps AND DOCKS, July p, lS45.
@ EALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Memphis
- Navy Yard" will be received at this Office
until O'Clock p m Of the Goth August next for fur
nishing 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 Chckasaw street. for furnish
ing materials and building about $500 perches YER
ical WALL for the delivery Of IL, 800 perches stone,
sandstone, limestone, or both for the necessary
piling on the eastern side OF Wolf river the
shore for the delivery of 272,40 pressed brick
and $4,000 salmon brick for the delivery Of
1885, 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 embahkment and for clear
ing the whole ground about thirtytwo acres) of the
underground and trees. 5V A
Persons making offers must state the price per
cubic yard for excavation, the price per cubic yard
for embankmcnt the price per perch of twenty-five
cubic feet for vertical walls the price per perch
of twenty FIVE cubic feet Or stone the price per
foot Qineal 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 (boafd measue for lun
Der for the foundations pf buildings the price per
foot (lineal) for piles; the price per thousand feet
(board measure) for any wood work required and
the price per perch for the foundation walls. For
clearing the proposals. must state the gross sum for
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 it has been graded the
work to be paid for at the same rate per yard
cavaton.
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 or description of materials or
work shall be paid to the contractor, and no more
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.
Con,racn and bonds, with two approved sare
ties in one-third 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 will be retained as
collateral security for the faithful performance Of
the contract, which will be paid only on the Salts
factory completion Of III ana ninety per centum Of
all deliveries made, and work executed, will be paid
on all bills properly authenticated within thirty days
after thch 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 70 the
government; otherwise their proposals will not
be acted upon.
Plans Of the work sah 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, Inteligencer and Constit-
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, Val Nashville Union; and
Memphis Appeal,
Proprietors Of the above papers will be pleased to
send a copy Of the paper containing the above ad.
vertsement to this bureau.
July al--lawtA2i