The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-16
PROPOSALS FOR ERECTING MINT,
WITH THE NECESSARY MACHINERY,
AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

TaEAsuRy DEPARTMENT, October 2, 1862.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at thii
- Department until the 9Th day Of February
1853, for the construction OF the Branch Mint nj
Sa n Francisco, California according to the plans
and specifications which will be furnished on ap
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 also the right Of declining to
| make any contract if 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.
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 esti-
mates of the superintendent and architect thereof,
reserving from each of such estimates and pay
ments twenty per cent the first one hundred
thousand dollars, and ten per cent. on each subse-
quent estimate after the above sum, until the flnai
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 or
parties making it, If hio or their bid be accepted
shall and will enter into contract and bond, with
sutfic lent sureties to the satisfaction on the Pres
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 is accompanied
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-
pa 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 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 ana
upon the same terms and conditions as speclned 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
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 suitable building and machinery are bought
leased under the authority to that effect granted
by Congress, no contract Will or course theh De
made for the erection of building and furnishing
the machinery
The bids will be opened and recorded in the pre-
sence of such bidders may thin k.proPer to at
tends and should the bids which may be made
from California not be received at the Department
previous to the aforesaid Sth day OF February, $685.
it will reserve the right to delay opening the other
bids which may be presented.
A decision will be made soon as practlca Die
after the Department has been officially advised
that law has been passed by the Legislature OF
the State of California exempdng SAID brancn
Mint from taxation, &c, as is required by the otn
section of the act of Congress of the Sd 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
ver,isement in two pers 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 md specifcA-
tons for the information Of those who may ish to
make bids there THOS. CORWIN,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Oct S-lawtFeb