The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-20
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

BuREAU or YARDs AND DOCKS, July 81, l6l5.
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed I" Memphis
~ Navy Yard" will DO received at this Office
until O'Clock p of the Goth August next for fur
nishlng and delivering materials and for executing
work at the navy-yard, Memphis, Tennessee, as
For making the necessary excavation to reduce
the blufi to tho established grade of the yard and
tor grading Front Chckasaw street for furnish-
ing materials and building about 800 perches
lca walls for the delivery Of Il, 900 perches stone,
sandstone, limestone, or both for The necessary
ping the eastern side Of Wolf river TO secure the
shore for the delivery Of 272,4O pressed brick
and 544, $50 salmon brick for the delivery of
1888, 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 embankmeni; and for clear
ing the whole ground (about thiry-two acres) Of the
underground and trees. 81 3e6g
Persons making offers must state the price per
cubic yard for excavations the price per cubic yard
Tor embankmenti the price per perch Of twenty-five
cubic fee, for vertical walls the prics per perch
OF twenty-five cubic feet for stone; the price per
1901 liineal measure) for each kind Of timber for
pies when driven and finished according 10 the
plan the price per thousand for each kind of brick;
me price per thousand feet (board mcasurc for lum
per per 'or .ne foundations Of buildings the price per
foot (IneaD for piles; the price per thousand feet
(board measurc) 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 tho contractors to have tho wood
which 10 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 tho Same rate per yard a. ex
cavaiion.
The department expressly reserves the right Of
diminishing or increasing the quantity Of materials
and the amount of work in the several portions Of
fl.a nhoA.~
ties of materials and the amount Of work be in
creased beyond the estimates, the same price 10
specified for that kind 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 persona TO be appointed by
and under instructions from this Bureau and mono
will be received or approved which shall not pas
such inspection.
Contracts and bonds, with two approved surca
Mes in one-thrd the amount Of contract will be re-
quired, 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 a.
collateral security for the faithful performance of
the contract, which will be paid only on the salts
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 sureies 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 in1
formation may be required can be obtained, by
application at the Enginecrs Office, Memphis.
To be published once week until the 2lst Of Au-
gust next, in the Union, lnelligencer, and Consttu-
Sun; Pennsylvania, Philadclphia; Morning News,
Evening Post, and Journal Of Commerce, New
York; Harrisburg Union; Morning Post, Boston;
Enquirer, Richmond, Va; Nashville Union; and
Memphis Appeal.
send copy of the paper containing the above adj
vertisement to this bureau.
July 2l--lawtA2I