The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-20
War Department.,
Bureau Typographical Engineers


PROPOSALS will be received b. the Secretary
L of War until the Sd day of January, 1858, for
the removal of the raft on Red River; at which time
the contract will be awarded TO the lowest respon-
sible bidder provided the same be satisfactory to
the Department, and shall not exceed one hundred
thousand dollars.
CONDITIONS
|. The materials forming the raft must not only
be thoroughly removed from the river, but must
be destroyed, that they cannot form new OBJ
structlons or impediinents to the navigation
thereof
2 The work will be paid for as it progresses, in
the following manner Whenever the contra tor
shall report that portion of the raft has been
moved and destroyed, the came shall be inspected
by officer appointed by the Department, and if
it shall appear that such is the fact, the Depart
ment will pay such proportion of the whole price
| agreed upon as the portion removed shall bear to
the entire raft-less twenty per cent; provided
that the portion paid for shal never be less than
one fifteenth part of the whole work
3. 1.-THE bidder thinks he can complete the work
by the LIST day of July next, 1853, he will state the
sum for which he is willing to complete it within
that time and also the cum for which he will I'M
dertake to complete it by the st of July, 1854 If
he cannot undertake it for the first mentioned PC
Rod, he will go state and will propose for the last
mentioned period only.
4. When the time specified in the contract for
the completion of the work shall have arrived the
same snail be inspected by officer or officers de-
tailed for that purpose by the Secretary of War,
and if it shal appear on such inspection that the
| contract has been fully complied with, full pay
ment shall be made for the work in conformity
with the terms of the agreement, including the
twenty per cent retained under article 3 But if
shall appear that the contract has not been fully
complied with, then no farther payment shall be
made. but the balance remaining due on the con-
tract ehal be forfeited to the United States. If,
however, the Department shall be satisfied that
proper exertons have been made by the contractor
to fulfil his engageme mt, and he shall offer to
plee the work without any additional charge to
the United States reasonable time, at the deere
a., Of
for that purpose. And if at the expiration of that
time the work shall be completed, the same shall
be fully paid for.
g. The contractor will be required to give his
bond for 100000, with two good sureties, each
for the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for
the faithful execution ofthe contract Each bidder
will transmit at the same time with his proposals
the names of the persons whom he offers sureties
and a declaration signed by them that they will
sign his bond as sureties as above mentioned; and
aso the certificate of district judge of the United
States for the State in which he resides that said
sureties are respectable citizens, and that he con-
siders them worth ten thousand dollars over and
above all their debts and liabilities. No bid will be
examined unless these conditions shall be complied
with
g. The proposals will be addressed to the under
signed, marked on the envelope, Proposals for
removing Red River Raft
J. J. ALERT,
Col. Corps Typographical Engineers
The Republic, Intelligencer, and Union, Wash-
ington, ID C.; Courier and Enquirer. and Express,
New York; Pennyslvania Enquirer, and Daily
News, Philadelphia. Pa; Cincinnati Gazette, Gin
cinnat. Ohio; Louisville journal, Louisville, Ky;
st. Louis Republican, st. Louis Mo-; Shreveport I
Herald, Shreveport, La New Orleans CONNER
cial Bulletin, New Orleans Bee, and New Orleans
Republican, New Orleans. La, wilinsert the above
daily ten times and then twice a week until
January 3, 1853.
Sept 30 dl0t&2awtJan3
RED RIVER RAFT.
OUNCE the above advertisement was inserted,
~ the Department has deter mined to modify the
terme OF the proposed contract, as follows, to Wit
The raft shall not be considered rs removed
until the river, throughout the entire space now
navigable by steamboats, during at least one entire
high water season. The final inspection of the
work shall therefore not take place until one year
after the eame shall have been reported as appa-
rently completed If, at the expiration of this
year, the officer officers charged with the in
spcction shall report that the river has continued
or has, by the Efforts of the contractor been KEEP
open and unobstructed by the raft, the twenty per
cent. retained as above shall be paid over to the
contractor. But IT, at any time during said wear.
the navigation should be obstructed by the raft,
the contractor shall be bound, at his own expense
to remove said obstructon and if he fail to do So
tho Department shall have the right to apply the
twenty per cent, or - much thereof as ma v be
necessary to effect said removal.
All papers which have inserted the first aGvcr
tisement, will insert this in every issue I'm til the
LIST day of February next, at which time instead
of the Sd day Of January, the proposals will be