The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-30
PROPOSALS FOR ERECTING A MINT
WITH THE NECESSARY MACHINERY,
AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, October 2. 1852.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
~ Department until the 9Th day of February,
1888, for the construction of the branch mint al
San francisco, California, according to the plans
and specifications which will be furnished on ap.
pllcaton 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 tc
the Department to contract either way, as may be
found the most advantageous and advisable. The
Department also reserves the right of declining to
make any contract ii 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. y - ....-- 49,.
: Payment will be made every sixty days on the
amount OF the work done and materials actually
used on the buildings to be ascertained by the esti
mates OF the superintendent and architect thereof
reserving from each of such estimates and paw,
ments twenty per cent. on the first one hundred
sequent estimate after the above sum, until the
final completion of the building, and it's approval
and acceptance by the Department
Every proposal must be accompanied by a writ
to the effect that they undertake that the party or
parties making it, if his their bid be accented
shall and will enter into contract and bond, with
sufficient suretes to the satisfaction of 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 proposal
will be considered unless it is accompanied with
such guarantee. -, ~s = -
Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place for furnishing the needfu machinery
for said branch mint according to the specifca-
tons, which will likewise be furnished by the De.
partment, and upon the same terms and condi-
lions as specified above in relation to the building,
with the exception of the amount of the bond re-
CURED for the faithful execution of the contract
which will be in the sum of twenty thousand dol
lars H.: ...-.. 80" :i".s
Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place, agreeably to the act of Congress- the
sale, Lease, or rent of any building and machinery
suitable for the purpose OF a branch mint, and
upon the same terms and conditions as specified in
relation to the building. Such building and ma
chlnery 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 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
attend; and should the bids which NAV be ma de
from California not be received at the Department
previous to the aforesaid 9Th day of February,
1888 1t will reserve the right to delay opening the
other bids which may be presented.
A decision will be made as soon as practicable
after the Department has been officially advised
that a law has been passed BY the Legislature of
the State OF Cali tornia exempting said branch mint
from taxation &C., is required by the sixth Sec
ton of the act of Congress Of the Sd July 1852 to
establish branch mint of the United States in
California. 49,. -- ,-.-.t
Those persons in California who may be disposed
to make proposals for said building or machinery
will deliver the to the Collector of Customs at
San Francisco previous to the expiration of sixty
days after the first pubication of the present adj.
yertsement in two newspapers issued in San Fran
cisco, that period having been designated in the
act OF Congress for the notice for proposals in Cal
ifornia. The Collector at San Francisco will be
furnished with copies OF the plans and specifications
for the Information of those who may wish to make
bids there. THOS. CORWIN,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Oct 8-IawtSFeb ~f|S'
TREASURY DEpARTMENr, March II, 1853
The 9th section of the act of Sd March, 1858, "to
supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the
service of the fiscal year ending the 3Oth June,
1852 having provided sthat the time for receiy-
ing bids under the act of Sd July, 1852 for the
erection of mint at California be extended to the
LIST of April 1853, and that the sum of three hun
dred thousand dollars appropriated by said act, or
30 much thereof as may be necessary, shall be ap-
piled only to the erection and putting in operation
a mint in California and not to the purchase of
any building for that purpose" the foregoing pro-
posals of the I'd October last modified accord
ingly. Bids will therefore be received at this De-
partment upon the proposals modified, until the
first day of April proximo, Inclusive in compliance
with the directions of the act OF Congress referred
to. JAMES GUTHRIE,
Secretary of the Treasury
Mar l4-lawtlstAp IL
OsEWOOD FRENCH WRITING