The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-24
PROPOSALS. FOR ERECTING MINT,
WITH THE NECESSARY MACHINERY,
AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

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| TREAsURy DEPARTMENT, October 2, 1852
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
! - Department until the 9Th day Of February,
1858, for the construction OF the Branch Mint ut
San Francisco, California, according to the plans
and specifications which will be furnished on APP
LEGATION to the Department, to parties disposed TO
contract The said proposals TO contain bids for
the entire work, and also separately for each dis
tinct branch of work, the right being reserved to
the Department TO contract either way as may be
found the most advantageous and advisable The
Department aiso 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. ,'"fh.
Payments will be made every sixty days on the
amount OF the work done and materials actually
used on the building, to be nscerained by the esti
mates OF the superintendent and architect thereof
rcserving from each of such estimates and pay
ments twenty per cent. on the first one hundred
thousand dollars. and ten per cent. on each subse-
qucnt estimate after the above sum, until the final
completion of the building, and its approval and
acceptance by the Department.
Every proposal must be accompanied by a writ
ten guarantee, signed by two Responsible persons,
to the effect that they undertake that the party
parties making it, If his or their bid be accepted
shall and will enter into contract and bond with
sufficient suretes to the satisfaction oil 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-
posal Will be considered unless 1t Is accompanied
with such guarantee.
Proposals. will also be received at the same time
and place for furnishing the needfu machinery
for said Branch Mint according to the 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 contrast, which
will be in the sum OF twenty thousand dollars.
Proposals will alao be received at the same time
and place. agreeably to the act Of Congress, for the
sale, lease, rent of any building and machinery
suitable for the purpose of Branch Mint, and
upon the same terms and conditions specified in
relation to the building. Such building and ma
chincry to be equal in all respects to the plans and
ing, and to be capable of coming at least thirty
millions of gold annually in a 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- no contract will Of course then be
made for the erection OF building and furnishing
The bids will be opened and recorded in the pre-.
sence Of such bidders may think proper to 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 February, 1858,
it will the right to delay opening the other
bids which may be presented.
A decision will be made 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, Sc, as is required by the 9th
section of the act Of Congress of the 3D. July 1852,
to establish q Branch Mint of the United States in
California. ,.. ... .... ;u
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 ad-
vcrtisement 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 specifica-
tions for the information of those who may wish to
Secretary of the Treasury
Oct s-IawtFebs
DROPOSALs FOR CARRYING the MAILS
l. OF the United States from the Est day Of jan
uary 1853, to the 30th day of June, 1854 inclusive
in Illinois, will be received at the Contract Office
Of the Post Office Department. in the city of Wash
ton, until the 9th day Of December, 1852, Go be
decided by the day following,) on the route and in
the manner and time herein specified, viz:
Route 4,240. From Jacksonville. by Manchester,
Whitehall, Carrolton, Kane, Jerseyville, Delhi,
and Godfrey. TO Alton, and BAG daily except sun
day, in four. house coaches; three OF the weekly
trips to embrace Lynnvile, Winchester. Glasgow,
and Brecse, instead of Manchester and Whitehall.
Leave jacksonville daily, except Sunday, at IL
a. m;
Arrive at Alton next days by "a. m
Leave Alton daily, except Sunday, at p m;
Arrive at Jacksonville next days by p. m.
The mail ia TO be carried in preference to pas
sengers, and To their exclusion, II required by inc
size OF the mails. Deduction will be made from
the mail pay for trips not run; and fines imposed
for those not performed agreeably to contract.
The Postmaster General may annui the contract
for repeated failures. for violating the Post Office
laws. He may alter the contract or schedule,
provided no ows pro rata extra pay for additional
stock in case of Increased expedition. No extra
pay will be allowed should the distance prove
greater than advertised. The proposals should be
endorsed "Msi Proposals for Route 4,2iO, Nh-
nois," and addressed 70 "The Second Assistant
Postmaster General"
For further particulars as to the conditions OF
bidding, notes attached to the late advertise
ment for proposals. for carrying the nIais on GER
tain routes in Illinois, &C.
s. d. HUBBARD,
Postmaster General.
Posi- OFFICE DEPAnThENT, Oct Il, 1882
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