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III TaEAsunv DrpAsrmEsr, October 2, 1862. 5
CEALED PROPOSALS will be received at thii
- Department until the 9Th day OF February
1853, for the construction OF the Branch Mint at
San Francisco California. according 70 the plans
and specifications which will be furnished on ap
LEGATION to the Department, to parties disposed to
contract. The said proposals to contain bids for
the 70,
the Department to contract either way. as may be
found the most advantageous and advisable. The
Department also reserves the right OF declining to
make any contract IL the building and machinery
cannot be finished and completed for the sum OF
three hundred thousand dollars. to which sum the
expenditure Is expressly limited BY the act Of Con-
gress. I,
amount OF the work done and materials actusiy
used on the building to be ascerained by the esti
mates Of the superintendent and architect Thereon,
reserving from each Of such estimates and pay,
ments twenty per cent. on the frat one hundred
thousand dollars, and ten per cent. on each subse-
quent estimate after the above sum, Until the final
completion of the building, and its approval and
acceptance by the Department. VI ).
Every proposal must be accompanied BY writ
ten guarantee, signed by two responsible persons,
to the effect that they undertake that the party or
parties making it, II his or their bid be accepted,
sufficient suretes to the satisfaction OF the Presi-
dent of the United States and the Secretary OF the
Treasury, in the sum Of fifty thousand dollars, for
the faithful execution of the work; and no pro-
Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place for furnishing the needfui machinery
for said Branch Mint according to the specihca-
tons, which will likewise be Furnished by the De-
partment, and upon the same terms and conditions
as specified above in relation to the building with
the exception of the amount OF tho bond required
for the faithful execution Of the contract, which
will be in the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
PROPOSALS will also be received at the same time
and place. agreeably to the act of Congress for the
sale, lease, or rent Of any building and machinery
suitable for the purpose OF Branch Mint, ana
relation to the building Such building and ma.
chinery tobc equal in all respects TO the plans and
specifications referred to above for the new build
ing, and 70 be capable Of coming at least thirty
pieces of the different denominations. from one to
twenty dollars each, az now authorized BY law.
If n suitable building and machinery are bought
or leased under the authority to that effect granted
by Congress, no contract will OF course then be
made for the erection OF building and furnishing
The bids viii be opened and recorded in the pre-
sence Of such bidders as may think proper 70 at
tend; and should the bids which may be made
from California not be received at the Department
previous to the aforesaid 9th day OF 1905
II will reserve the right to delay opening the other
bids which may be presented. fEHt
A decision will be made as soon as practicable
after the Department has been officially advised
that law has been passed by the Legislature OF
the State of California exempting said Branch
Mint from taxation, &c, as is required by the 9th
section Of the act of Congress Of the Sd July, 1852
toestablish Branch Mint of the United States in
California. sta s@.zF F.. trst,s
Those persons in California who may be disposed
to make proposals for said building or machinery
will deliver the same to the Collector Of Customs
at San Francisco previous to the expiration OF sixty
days after the first publication of the present adj
vertisement in two newspapers Issued in San Fran
cisco, that period having been designated In the
act Of Congress for the notice for proposals in
California The Collector at California will be
tions for the information of those who may wish te
make bids there THOS. CORWIN,
Secretary Of the Treasury.
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