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CEALED PROPOSALS win be received az, a. mi,
y Office until the 16t day Of June 1874 a.. J~.drl
ing. by the cubic yard, channel across this bar
navfgable at ordinary low water for the vessels
that frequent the Passaic. The minimum depth
to be eleven feet six inches at ordinary high va.
ter; the minimom " 9TH one hundred feet; the
length about one mile, giving an excavation
whose mnimum will be about go ,oc0) forty thous
sand cubic yards. -
The excavation will commence about half mile
NORTH OF the present beacon, on the west channel;
WIN extend thence, in the direct profongation OF
the channel OF the Passaic, along the west channel
towards fhe lighthouse till the natural channel Of
the bay ia reached beyond the present bar.
Inc dredging lie to be executed in what in known
az we west channel, from two to three miles from
Tue 'erry across the Passaic This point is about
an hour from Jersey City and from Newark over
the plank-road by the ON nibueee Il is also passed
several times daily by the steamboats, between
Newark and New York 1890
Inc substance comprising the bar is almost en-.
tirely soft black mud, very easily dredeed. The
shores nearest the channel to be dredged are dis
tant about mile, are overhown at every h;vb tide
are overgrown with sedge, and offer facilities for
Sealed proposals will be received as above for
dredging by the cubic yard the amount of matter
to be removed from the bar, the contractor TO fur
nsh every thing necessary for the execution Of
the work at 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 aboutthe above mentioned distance
OF mile) on the adjacent shores as shall 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 as
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 it's 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.
necrs, at the Office of Major r. Dela6eid, No ii.
Seventeenth street, New York
JOSEPH G. FOTTEN,
Brevet Brig. Gen. and Colonel Engineers
To be inserted in the Union, Intellgencer, and
Republic, Washington; National Democrat, New
YORK; and Newark Morning Eagle, Newark, New
Jersey, twice week until the let day of June,
1858, and two copies of each paper containing the
advertisement to be transmitted to the Engineer
Department. April 20-2awtls!June