The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-05
PROPOSALS FOR ERECTING MINT,
WICH THE NECESSARY Machinery
AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

TREASURY DEPARrMEsr, October 9, 1852.
| . EALED PROPOSALS will be received at thi
| ~ Department until the 9Th day OF February
| 1853, for the construction of the Rranch Mint a
San Francisco, California, according to the PLAN
| and specifications which will be furnished on ap
lication to the Department, to parties disposed t
contract. The said proposals 10 contain bids foI
the entire work, and also separately for each dis
tinct branch of work, the right being reserved tc
the Department to contract either way, as mia be
| found the most advantageous and advisable. The
Department also reserves the right of declining to
make any contract If the building and machinery
| caunot 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. U.a ...t.
Payments will be made every sixty days on the
amount Of the work done and materials actually
used on the building to be ascertained by the est
mates Of the superintendent and architect thereof
reserying from each Of such estimates and pay;
| ments twenty per cent. on the first one hundred
thousand dollars, and ten per cent. each subse-
quent estimate after the above sum, until the fina
completion of the building, and ito approval and
acceptance by the Department
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, if his their bid be accepted
shall and will enter into contract and bond, with
sufficient sureties 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-
with such guarantee.
Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place for furnishing the needful 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 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, agreeaby to the act of Congress- for the
sale, lease, or rent of any building and machinery
suitable for the purpose Of Branch Mint, and
upon the same terms and conditions as specified in
relation to the building. Such building and ma
chnery to be equal in all respects to the plans and
specifications referred to above for the new build
ing, and to be capable of coming at least thirty
millions of gold annually in fair proportion Of
pieces of the different denominations, from one to
twenty dollars each, as now authorized by law.
If a 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 machinery. ~. .....'7
The bids will be opened and recorded in the pre-
sence of such bidders as 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, 1853,
it will reserve the right to delay opening the other
bids which may be presented.
A decision will be made soon 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
to establish Branch Mint of the United States in
California. a- .....- ,.,. ..'
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-
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.
Oct S-IawtEebS