The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-20
PROPOSALS FOR REPAIRING BRICK
WALL AROUND OBSERVATORY
NAVY AoENT's OFFICE,

NAVY AGEsT's OFFICE,
WAsHiNGros, d. c., November l6, 1852.
SEALED PROPOSALS in duplicate will be re
~ ceived at this Office until II O'Clock IN on the
seventeenth day of January next, for removing the
coping on the brick wall encosing tine grounds of
the Observatory on the cast, south, and west side
for raising this wall four bricks higher, Except
twenty eight panels, which to be raised two
feet higher,) beginning at the hip in the west wall
and going around by the south t. the northern ell
of the east wall.
patterns at the Navy Agents office. from the north
end of the west WALL by way Of south wall, to
north end Of cast wall
All the brick, including the coping, to be the beat
red brick; the whole to be laid and filed in with
mortar made with beet hydraulic cement, lime in
equal parts and proper proper ion OF clean sharp
sand; the work TO be finished in workmanlike
manner.
Bids for the work must be made per the running
foot for coping the west wall from north end to hip
per running foot for raising the wall four bricks
higher and coping it, and per running foot for rails
ing the % panels two feet higher and coping the
same.
The work not to be commenced before the lst of
April 1858, and to be finished on before the 3lst
May, 1853
All the materials and workmanship to be to the
entire satisfaction of the Superintendent of the Oh.
seryatory before Hills will be approved.
Upon the completion Of the contract according
to its provisions pa nj will be made by the Navy
Agent at Washington, within thirty days after
PRESENT. the bills duly approved by the Superin-
tendent of the Observatory.
Each offer must be signed by the person or per-
sons making it, and by the guarnntors, according
to the form annexed, and their residence lnaming
the town and STATED must be distinctly stated
The person whose offer shall be accepted will be
notified personally or by letter through the poet
Office, which notice shall be considered sufficient;
and If he do not appear md enter into contract for
the work specified within fifteen days from the
date OF the notice, contract will be made with
some other person, and the guarantors OF such de.
bidder re5DOnHible n
delinquencies.
All offers not made in strict conformity with this
advertisement, ia every particular, will, at the
option of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrogra-
ply, be rejected.
The bids will be opened in the presence of two
or more witnesses, and also in the presence Of the
bidders il they or any one Of them should be pres
ent; and only the person whose offer has been &C.
ceped will be notified,
Aud the Department reserves to itself the right
to decline any or all the offers which may be re
ceived, if the sum asked should be greater than
can be paid for from existing appropriations.
FORM OF OFFER.
To the Navy Agent at Washington, ID. c.
], - Of, in the State of --, hereby
offer to furnish all the materials and perform the
work required for the Observatory wall, under
1852, and subject to all the requirements of the
same.
For -, [write the aggregate in words
Signed by person making offer.
of ~, and ofin the State at e of e.a.e
as guarantors, hereby undertake that the above
named - will, if - offer be accepted. en-
ter ter into contract, as before required, with the
notice, through the post office o. the acceptance
off bid as before mentioned.
[Signatures.l
certify that the above-named - and -
| are known to me to be good and responsible guar
| antors in this case.
RIO be signed by a Navy Agent, Collector, or
District Attorney, or some person known to the
contracting agent TO be cr .,in
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