The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-04-24
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC BUmplsGs
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PROPOSALS will be received at this office, UNI
i til 3 o'clock, on Wednesday the Goth instant,
for repairing and graveng Pennsy vania 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 of the sur
plus earth at the sides; four inches below the paving
and other places where it is too high and filling the
hollows TO approximate to the proper gradua-
ton of the avenue and where large rocks or stones
are found in the same, they must be removed or
duced in size by hammering. The sides also, must
be eYcavated, where required to proper depth to
receive the stone paving for the cutters, which must
be laid in a 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 hoows, and covered with fine gravel and round
cd from gutter to gutter. The gravel to be twelve
inches deep in the centre and SIX inches ut the sides.
The old paving must be taken up and relaid on
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 relayng 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 for that pur-
pose The contractor will be required to enter into
a bond with two sufficient suretes for the fahfnl
completion of his contract by the 18th OF August next
The proposals to be sealed and endorsed Proposals
for repairing and graveling Pennsylvania avenue
from 18th street west to the bridge Rock Creek,
and making proper cutters and drains to carry of 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
south from lth street east to 18th street east
and for repairing and graveling 9Th street east from
Pennsy lvania avenue to the Navy Yard gate, width
of thirty feet or more, the commissioner may de-
termne 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 described in the proposals for gravelng
from nth street TO Rock Creek bridge. The propo-
sails must state the rates for gayeng and stone
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 subec, to the
inspection and approval of such person the COM
missioner may appoint for that purpose.
| The contractor will be required TO enter into
bond with two sufficient suretles for the faithful com
petion Of bis contract by the 18th Of August next
| The proposals to be sealed and endorsed Propo-
sails for repairing and grsveIing the road from the
Capitol to the Navy Yard and TO the Congress Burial
Ground"
To he published once week, until the Goth inst,
in the Nat lntelligencer, Madsonlan and Constitu-
ton. April