The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-18
PROPOSALS. FOR REPAIRING BRICK
.g WALL AROUND OBSERVATORY. .,
a.. s.attHlra Navy AsEHr's OFFICE.
WAsHINGroN. ID. C.. November l6 1852

us WAsHINGTos, d. c., November l6, 1852.
SEALED PROPOSALS in duplicate will be
~ ceived at this Office until IL O'Clock m 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, (excepl
twenty eight panels, which are to be raised two
feet higher, beginning at the hip in the west wall
and going around by the south ~ the northern emf
Of the east wall. .'ra r.,..H ..a a.ra ..
The wall 10 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 well, to
north end Of east wall. WI r. .E Orr. ...
All the brick including the coping, to be the best
rcd brick; the whole to be laid and filed in with
equal parts and proper proper ion Of clean sharp
sand; the work TO be finished in a work manlikc
manner. .... lrt .# Hsar#.' rr
Bids for the work must be made per the running
foot for coping the west wall from north end to hip
per running foot for raising the wall four bricks
higher and coping il, and per running foot for ras
ing the % panels two feet higher and coping the
same. III b. a.t. t. .... ..-
The work not to be commenced before the Ist Of
April, 1885, and to be finished before the 3lst
May, 1853. .r.,t -.,eaa.s.
All the materials and workmanship to be to the
entire satisfaction of the Superintendent of the Oh
scrvatory before bills will be approved.
Upon the completion of the contract according
to its provisions payment will be made by the Navy
Agent at Washington, within thirty days after
presenting the bills duly approved by the Superin
tendont of the Observatory. 60. ;. .r.. ..
Each offer must be signed by the person or per-
cons making 1t. and by the guarantors, according
to the form annexed, and their residence (paming
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, a contract will be made with
some other person, and the guarantors OF such de.
faulting bidder will be held responsible for all
delinquencics. .....
All 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. ...r.~.'
The bids will be opened in the presence of two
or witnesses, and also in the presence of the
bidders, II they or any one Of them should be pres
ent; and only the person whose offer has been &C
And the Department reserves to itself the right
to decline any all the offers which may be 70
ceived, if the sum asked should be greater than
can be paid for from existing appropriations.
FORM OF OFFER.
To the Navy Agent at Washin gton, D. C..
offer to furnish all the materials and perform the
work required for the Observatory wall, under
your advertisement dated 18th day of November,
1852. and subject TO all the requirements of the
same.
For -, [write the aggregate in words
Signed by person making offer.
The ond sns the sd in oh the State
as guarantors, hereby undertake that the above
named - will, if F. 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.]
certify that the above. named ------ and -
are known to me to be good and responsible guar
antors in this case.
ITO be signed by Navy Agent, Collector, or
District Attorney, or come person known to the
contracting agent to be creditable
.-... -. J. H. LATHROP, Navy Agent
Nov -1awSt