The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-26
ENGINEER DEPARTMENT

| ENGINEER DEPARTMENT,
WAsHIHeroN, April Is, 1852
- office until the st day of June, 1853. for dredg.
| ing, by the cubic yard, channel across this bar 9
navigabe at ordinary low water for the vessels
that frequent the Passaic. The minimum depth
10 be eleven feet six inches at ordinary high wa
| ter; the minimum width one hundred feet; the
| length about one mile, giving excavation
whose minimum will be about (40 .0OO) forty thou
| sand cubic yards.
| The excavation will commence about half mile
north Of the present beacon, on the west channel;
will extend thence, in the direct prolonga OF
the channel of the Passaic, along the west channel
towards the lighthouse, till the natural channel of
| the bay is reached beyond the present bar.
The dredging ia TO be executed in what ia known
as the west channel, from two to three miles from
the ferry across the Passaic. This point is about
an hour from Jersey City and from Newark over
the plank road by the omnibuses. 1t is also passed
several times daily by the steamboats, between
| Newark and New York.
The substance comprising the bar is almost en-
| tirely soft black mud, very easily dredged. The
shores nearest the channel to be dredged are dis
tant about mile, are overfown at every high tide,
| are overgrown with sedge, and offer facilities for
| the deposit and retention o the dredged matter.
Sealed proposals will be received above for
dredging by The cubic yard the amount of matter
to be removed from the bar, the contractor to fur
nish every thing necessary for the execution OF
! the work Mt his own expense The dredging, in all
cases, to be done with effect and at such places
as may be directed by the agent of the Govern
| ment. The excavated matter to be deposited at
such places Cat about the above mentioned distance
| of mile) on the adjacent shores sbal be indi
Gated by the agent. The directions Of this person
shall in all cases, regarding the execution OF the
work, be binding upon the contractor and his local
| agents.
| Partial payments will be made in the progress
| of the work, based upon estimates of the number
of cubic yards removed, which number will be
certained by measuring the dimensions of the cut
from time to time, and comparing the result with
the condition of the bar it was at the commence
ment of the work; but no work not at the position
Of the required cut, directed by the agent of the
United States, in excess of its specified dimen-
sions, will be paid for. Twenty per cent of the
value of the work done will in all cases be retained
in the hands of the Government agent, until the
whole amount contracted for is removed, when the
sums retained will be paid to the contractor.
Further particulars may be obtained by address.
ing Lieutenant M. Harrison, United States Engi-
neers, the office of Major R. Dela6eId, No. III,
Seventeenth street, New York.
JOSEPH G.. TOTEM,
Brevet Brig. Gen. and Colonel Engineers.
To be inserted in the Union, Intelligencer, and
Republic, Washington; National Democrat, New
York; and Newark Morning Eagle, Newark. New
Jersey, twice week until the lst day of June,
1853, and two copies of each paper containing the
advertise ment to be transmitted to the Engineer
Department. April 2O-sawtlstJune