The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-08
NOTICE NO CONTRACTORS.


BuREAU OF YARDs AND DOCKS, July q, lS45:
@ EALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Memphis
~ Navy Yard" will be received at this ONCE
until o'clock p m of the Doth 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 Chickasaw street for furnish
ing materials and building about $500 perches YER
teal wall for the delivery Of H. 800 perches stone
sandstone, limestone, or both for the necessary
png on the eastern side OF Wolf river, TO secure the
shore for the delivery of 2,400 pressed brick
and $4,000 salmon brick for the delivery Of
1873, 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
221 900 cubic yards of embankment; and for clear
ing the whole ground (abou thirty-two acres) Of the
Underground and trees.
Persons making offers must state the price pei
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-five cubic feet for stone the price PEI
foot lineal measure) for each kind of timber fol
piles when driven and finished according 10 the
PLAN the price per thousand for each kind Of brick
the price per thousand feet (board measure) for lum
Der for the foundations of buildings the price pei
foot (ineaD for piles; the price per thousand fee
board measure) for any wood work required, and
the price per perch for the foundation walls Fol
clearing, the proposals must state the gross sum fol
the whole job the contractors to have the wood
which is upon the ground. The gravel upon Fron
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
cavation.
The department expressly reserves the right o
diminishing increasing the quantity of materials
md the nj IF work N the sou n
the estimates here furnished; and should the quaint
ties of materials and the amount of work be in
creased beyond the estimates, the same price ms IL
specified for that kind description OF materials OF
work shall be paid to the contractor, and no more
The materials and work must be subject to in
spection and approval of persons to DC appointed by
and under instructions from this Bureau and none
will be received or approved which shall not pass
such inspection.
Contracts and bonds, with two approved sure
ties in one-hrd the amount of contract, will be re-
qured, to be entered into within twenty days after
the notification OF acceptance of the bid; and ten pei
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 it; and ninety per centum Of
oil deliveries made, and work executed, will be paid
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 suretes, 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 mol
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, Inteligencer, and Consttu
ton, Washington, d. G.; Baltimore Republican and
Sun; Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Morning News,
Evening Post, and Journal Of Commerce, New
York; Harrisburg Union; Morning Post, Boatonl
Enquirer, Richmond, Va; Nashville Union; and
Memphis Appeal.
Propretors Of the above papers will be pleased to
send copy of the paper containing the above ad-
veriisement to this bureau.
July 2l--lawtA2l