The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-30
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

BunEAu OF YARps AND Docks, July 81, l845.
CEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed 9 Memphis
~ Navy Yard,'' will be received at this Office
until o'clock p of the goth August next, for fur
nishing ard delivering materials and for executing
work at the navy,yard, Memphis, Tennessee, as
follows;
For making the necessary excavation TO reduce
the bluff 10 the established grade Of the yard, and
for grading Front Chiskasaw street; for furnish
ing materials ard building about 6,gUv perches YER
teal walls for the delivery of 1880 perches stone
sandstone, limestone, or both; for The necessary
piirg The eastern side OF Wolf river the
shore for the del1ety Of 272, 400 pressed brick
and $4,000 salmon brick for tie delivery Of
lS3 500 feet (board measure) assorted luifibtr, 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
90 900 cubic yards Of embankment and for clear
ing the whole ground tahout thirtytwo acres) the
underground and trees.
Persons making offers must sta.t the price per
cubic yard for excavations; the price per cubic yard
for enlbankment; the price per perch oftwenty-hve
cubic feet for vertical walls the price per perch
of twenty FIVE cubic feet for 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 (board rnearure) orum-
Der for the foundations Of 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
whichis uptn the ground The gravel upon Front
or Chickasaw street must be preserved, and spread
again upon the street after it has beer Graded the
work TO be paid for at the rate per yard az ex-
cavation.
The department expressly reserves the right OF
diminishing OF Increasing the quantity of materials
and the amount Of work III The several portions Of
the estimates here furnished; and sh0uld the duant-
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
work she'll be paid to the contractor, and no more.
The materials and work must be subject to in
spection and approval Of pcrsos % be 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-lhird the amount of CONTRACT will be
qured, 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 contracts which will be paid only on the salts
factory completion Of III and ninety per ccntum OF
all deliveries made, and work executed, will be paid
all bills properly authenticated within thirty days
after their presentation to the navy agent
Bidders 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 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 nexi, in the Union, IntelIgencer and Consttu
ton, Washington, d. G.; Baltimore Republican and
Sun; Pennsylvanan, Philadelphia; Morning News,
Evening Post, and Journal Of Commerce, New
York; Harrisburg Union; Morning Post, Boaton;
Enquirer, Richmond, Val Nashville Unionj and
Memphis Appeal.
Proprietors of the above papers will be pleased to
send copy Of the paper containing the above ad.
yertsement to this bureau.
July 2l-lawtA2l