The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-01
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Etasst % YsHps AID Docks, July 81, 1886
g EALED PROPOSALS, erdorsed Memphis
- Navy Yard" will be received ut lfiS oAcs
until o'clock p m. of the Goth August next, for fur
nishlng and delivering materials ana Tor executing
work 81 the navy.yard, Memphis, tennessee, as
follows
For making the necessary exclamation to reduce
the bluff to the established grade OF the yard, md
for grading Front or Chckasaw street; for furnish
ing materials and building about 6,900 perches YER
teal WALL for the delivery of II, 800 perches stone,
sandstone, limestone, or both for the necessary
shore !; fot the delivery of 272,40O pressed brick
and st4,9G0 salmon brick ! for the delivery Of
1888 500 feet tsoatd 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
% 900 cubic cards of enbankment, and for clear
ing the whole ground a5ctt thirty acres) of the
underground and trees.
Persons making offers must state the price per
cubic yard sor excavation; the price per cubic yard
for embankment; the pfsrs per perch of twenty-five
cubic feet for vertical walls the prizes per perch
Of twenty five cubic feet for stone; the price per
foot {lineal measure) for each kind of timber for
piles Wiisn driven and fnished according to the
plan the price per toas.ra for each kind of brick;
the price per thousand feet board mea5u.e) for lum
Der for the foundations of buildings tbs price per
foot (neaD for piles; the price per thousand feet
{board meashre) for any wood work required, and
the ptice per perch for the foundation walls. For
clearing, the proPtadlS must state the gross sum for
the whole job the contractors IL hive the wood
which is upon the ground. The gravel upon Front
or Chickasaw street must be preserved, and spread
again upon the street after has been graded; the
WORK ID be paid for st the rate per yard
cavation
The department expressly reserves tire right of
diminishing increasing the quantity Of materials
and the amount of work in the several porohs Of
the estimates here furnished; and should the quant
ties of materials and the amount of work be in
creased beyond the estimates the same price as is
specified for that kind description of materials
work shali be raid to the contractor, and no
The materials and work must be subject to in
specton and approval of persons 10 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-third the of contract will be
qtifed, 10 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 the satis-
factory completion Of it; 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 10 the navy agent.
Bidders are required to accompany their propo-
sails with evidence Of ability, together with the
names of their aureties, whose responsibility must
be certified by the United States district attorney
navy agent, or some person well known 10 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 he obtained by
application at the Engineers Office, Memphis.
To be published once week until the 2lst of Au-
gust next, in the Union lntegencer, and Consu
ton, Washington, d. c.; Baltimore Republican and
Sun; Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Morning News,
Evening Post, and Journal OF Commerce, New
York; Harrisburg Union; Morning Post, Borton;
Enquirer, Richmond, Va; Nashville Union; and
Memphis Appeal.
Proprietors of the above papers will be pleased to
send copy Of the paper containing the above ad.
vertisement to this bureau
" July 2l-lawtA21