The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-31
PROPOSALS. FOR REPAIRING lyRICx
WALL AROUND OBSERVATORY.
Navy AeEnr's OsrIcE

4 u NAVY AGENTS OFFICE,
| WAsHIsGroN, d. c.. November l6, 1862.
/ GEALED PROPOSALS in duplicate will be Se-
~ ceived at this Office until IL O'Clock IN on the
seventeenth day of January next, for removing the
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. E'h a.
The wall TO be COPIED with coping brick as per
patterns at the Navy Agents Office from the north
end OF the west wall. by way of south wall, to
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 workmanlike
manner. .aa.E
Bids for the work must be made per the running
foot for coping the west wall from north end 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. r..- L.
The work not to be commenced before the LIST of
April, 1853 and to be finished before the 3lst
May, 1858. Fl ...'.
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 is PROVISIONS ayment will be made by the Navy
Agent at Washington, within thirty days after
presenting the bills duly approved by the Superin,.
tendent OF the Observatory. ,., = dr.. ~
Each offer must be signed by the person or per-
sons making it, and by the guarantors, according
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 the notice, contract will be made with
some other pcrson, and the guarantors OF such de-
faulting bidder will be held responsible for all
delipQuencies. .... ......
Al 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.
" The bids will be opened in the presence of two
or more witnesses and also in the presence of the
bidders II they or any one Of them should be pres
cepted will be notified.
And the Department reserves to itself the right
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 at t; Washington ". s.g D. C.
offer to furnish all the materials and perform ths
work required for the Observatory wall, under
your advertisement dated 10th day of November
1852, and subject to all the requirements of the
same. &C.. 10. - q .s' d. - ~ >
For -, [write the aggregate in wordsl
signed by person making offer.
of The undersigned = of -, in the State
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
Off bid as before mentioned.
.. [Sgnatures.l
certify that the above-named AN
are known to me to be good and responsible guar
antors in this case r.
ITO be signed by Navy Agent, Collector, or
District Attorney, or some person known to the
agent to be creditable.1
J. II. LATHROP, Navy Agent.
Nov lS-.lawSt