The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-14
PROPOSALS FOR ERECTING MINT.
WITH THE NECESSARY MACHINERY,
AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

| TREAsURy DEPARTMENT, October 2, 1859.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
- Department until the sth 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 ap-
LEGATION to the Department, to parties disposed to
the ent tire work. snd also reparately for each dis
tnct 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 also reserves the right of declining 10
make any contract If the building and machinery
cannot be finished and completed for the sum Of
three hundred thousand dollars. to which Gum the
expenditure is expressly limited by the act Of Con-
gress.
Payments will be made every sixty days on the
| amount OF the work done and materials actually
mates Of the snperisien and sSssoaf
reserving from each Of such estimates and pay
ments twenty per cent. on the first one hundred
thousand dollars; and ten per cent, on eacn sunse
completion Of the building, and it's 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
parties making it, If his 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 of fifty thousand dollars, for
the faithful execution of the work; and no pro-
posal will be considered unless it ia accompanied
Proposals. will also be received at the same time
and place for furnishing the needfui machinery
for said Branch Mint according to the specihca-
tons, which will likewise be furnished by the De-
par tment 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 contrast, 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
Ia for Of Rran
upon the same terms and conditions as specified in
relation to the building. Such building and ma.
chney to be equal in all respects to the plans and
specifications referred TO above for the new buidi
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
| If a suitable building and machinery are bought
or 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.
| 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 1862
It will reserve the right to delay opening the other
| bids which may be presented
| decision will be made as soon az 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 ~ the een
Escon Of the act Of Congress of the 81 July, 1882
to establish Branch Mint of the United States In
California.
| 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-
vertisement in two newspa pers Issued in San Fran
| cisco, that period having been designated in the
| oct of Congress for the notice for proposals In
| California The Collector at California viii be
| furnished with copies of the plans and speciica-
tons for the information of those who may wish to
| make bids there. THOS. CORWIN,
| Secretary Of the Treasury.