The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-17
~ ------ - J. J. ALERT,
Col. Corps Typographical Engineers.
PROPOSALS FOR REPAIRING BRICK
WALL AROUND OBSERVATORY,
NAVY AGENTS OrrIcE-

NAVY AGENTS OFFICE,
WAsHINoToN, D. c., November l6, 1852.
SEALED PROPOSALS in duplicate will be re-
- ceved at this office until IL O'Clock m on the
seventeenth day of January next, for removing tho
coping on the brick wall enclosing the grounds of
the Observatory on the east, 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 end
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 east wall.
All the brick, including the coping, to be the best
red brick; the whole to be laid and filed in with
mortar made with best hydraulic cement, lime in
equal parts, and proper proportion Of clean sharp
sand; the work TO be. finished in a workmanlike
manner. . afr. ... F.
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 1853, and to be finished before the alst
All the materials and workmanship to be to the
entire satisfaction of the Superintendent of the OBJ
seryatory before bills will be approved.
Upon the completion of the contract according
to its provisions payment will be made by the Navy
Agent at Washington, within thirty days after
presenting the bills duly approved by the Superin-
tenQent OF the OO5erVatOry.5
Each offer must be signed by the person or per-
sons making 1t, and by the guarantors, according
to the form annexed. and their residence manning
the town and STATED must be distinctly stated.
The person whose offer shall be accepted will be
notified personally or by letter through the post
Office, which notice shall be considered sufficient;
and II he do not appear and enter into contract for
the work specified within fifteen DAYS from the
date Of tho notice, contract will be made with
some other person, and the guarantors of such de-
faulting bidder will be held responsible for all
delinquencies. .....
All offers not made in strict conformity with this
advertisement, in every particular, will, at the
option OF the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrogra-
ply, be rejected. -~
or more witnesses, and aso in the presence of the
bidders If they any one of them should be pres
ent; and only the person whose offer has been &C
cepted will be notified.
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 D. W v. DC.
offer to furnish all the materials and perform the
work required for the Observatory wall, under
your advertisement dated 18th day of November,
1852, and subject to all the requirements of the
same.
For --, [write the aggregate in words
gra. Signed by person making Offer
of 49,, and w of-Min the State at Of OFF,. M e.a.e
as guarantors, hereby undertake that the above.
named - will, if - offer be accepted, en-
ter into contract, as before required, with the
United States, within fifteen days after the date of
notice, through the post Office OF the acceptance
of bid as before mentioned.
lsignaturesI
certify that the above ma med - and -
are known to me to be good and responsible guar
antors in this case.
ITO be signed by Navy Agent, Collector, or
District Attorney, come person known to the
contracting agent to be creditable
J. H. LATHROP, Navy Agent.
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