The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-11
PROPOSALS. FOR ERECTING MINT,
WITH THE NECESSARY MACHINERY,
AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

TREAsURY DEPARTMENT, October 2, 1852.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
~ Department until the 9Th day of February,
1853, for the construction OF the Branch Mint at
San Francisco, California, according to the plans
and specifications which will be furnished on sp-
licaton to the Department, 70 parties disposed to
the entire work, and also separately for each dis
tinct branch of work, the right being reserved to
the Department to contract either way, AZ may be
found the most advantageous and Advisable. The
Department also reserves the right of declinisg to
ina Ike 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 10 expressly limited by the act of Con-
gress.
: Payments will be made every sixty days on the
amount Of xhe work done and materials actually
used the building, be ascerained by the esti-
mates of the superintendent and architect thereof
reserving from each OF such estimates and pay
ments twenty per cent. on the fret hundred
thousand dollars. and ten per cent. on each subse
quent estimate alter the above sum, until the iDai
completion Of the building, and its approval and
acceptance by the Department.
Every PROPOSAL must ha accompanied by writ
ten guarantee, signed by two rospanaibIe persona,
to the effect that they undertake that the party
parties making it, il his or their bid be accepted,
shall and will enter into contract and bond. with
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 pro-
posal will be considered unless it ia accompanied
Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place for furnishing the needful machinery
for said Branch Mint according to tho specifca-
tons, which will likewise be furnished by the De-
partment, and upon the same terms and conditions
specified above in relation to the building, with
the exception of the amount of the 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
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upon the same terms and conditions as specified in
relation to the building. Such building and ma
chinery to be equal in all respects to the plans and
specifications referred to above for the new build
ng, and 10 be capable Of coming at leaak thirty
millions of gold annually in q fair proportion Of
pieces of the different denominations, from one to
twenty dollars each, as now authorized by law.
If suitable building and machinery are bought
leased under the authority to that effect granted
by Congress, contract will Of course then be
made for the erection OF building and furnishing
The bids will be opened and recorded in the pre-.
sencc of such bidders may think proper to at
tend; and should the bids which may be made
from California not be received Mt the Department
previous to the aforesaid 9Th day of February 1853,
it will reserve the right to delay opening the other
bids which may DO presented.
A decision will be made soon as practica bic
after the Department has been officially advised
that n law has been passed by the Legislature OF
the State of California exempting sad Branch
Mint from taxation, &c, is required by the 9th
section 81 the act Oh congress OF tne 80 July, 1907
to establish Branch Mint of the United States in
California. -.as
Those persons in California who may be disposed
to make proposals for said building or machinery
will deliver the same to the Collector Of Cusfoms
at San Francisco previous to the expiration of sixty
days after the first publication Of the present ad-
vertsement 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
furnished with copies of the plans and specifca-
tons for the Information of those who may wish to
| make bids there. THOS. CORWIN,
.... Secretary of the Treasury.