The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-14
OFrIcE OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS
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OrF,cE OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS
April l, lS45.
PROPOSALS will be received at this Office, I'M
i til 3 o'clock, on Wednesday the Both instant,
for repairing and graveing Pennsy avenue, from
18th street west to the bridge Rock Creek, and
making proper stone cutters and drains to carry of
the water from the same. The avenue must be pre-
pared to receive the gravel by trimming off the sur
plus earth at the sides; four inches below the paving
and other places where it is too high and filling the
hollows so as 10 approximate 10 the proper gradua-
ton of the avenue and where large rocks or stones
are found in the same, they must be removed re-
duccd in size by hammerng. The sides also, must
be excavated, where required, to proper depth to
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 quality, and be spread
regularly and evenly, and the large stones raked into
the bollows 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 graveng
(including the trimming and forming the road) and
the stone paving will be executed by the square yard
Also for taking up and relaying as 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 Tor that Pur-
pose. The contractor will be required to enter into
bond with two sufficient suretles for the faithful
completion of his contract by the 18th of August next
The proposals to be sealed and endorsed Proposals
for repairing and graveng Pennsylvania avenue
from 18th street west to the bridge over Rock Creek,
and making proper cutters and drains to carry OIL the
water from the same.
Proposals will also be received for repairing and
crawling the Pennsylvania avenue, from the south
gate of the Capitol square to 18th street east, and Il
street south from lth street east to 18th street east
and for repairing and crawling 9th street east from
Pennsy lvania to the Navy Yard gate, width
of thirty feet or more, the commissioner may de-
termne on and for making the necessary stone cross
cutters. The gravel must be twelve inches deep in
the CENTRE and eight inches at the sides, prepared in
the manner as describedn the proposals for graveng
from 18th street to Rock Creek bridge. The propo-
sails must state the rates for grayelng and stone pav
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 to the
inspection and approval of such person as the com
missioner may appoint for that purpose.
The contractor will be required to enter into a
bond with two sufficient suretes for the faithful com
pletion of his contract by the 18th of August next
The proposals to be sealed and endorsed Propo-
sails for repairing and grayeling the road from the
Capitol to the Navy Yard and to the Congress Burial
Ground"
To be published once a week, until the 30th inst,
in the Nat Intelligencer, Madsonian and Constltu-
ton. April