The republic., 1853-05-28
ENGINEKR DEPARTMENT,

| WAsHINeToN, April l6, 1853.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
~ office until the st day of June, 1853, for dredg
| ing by the cubic yard, channel across this bars
| 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 ,000) 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 prolon cation of
the channel of the Passaic, along the west channel
towards the lighthouse, till the natural channel of
| the bay ia reached beyond the present bar. ll
| The dredging ia to be executed in what ia known
as the west channel, from two to three miles from
the ferry across the Passac. This point is about
an hour from Jersey City and from Newark over
the plank road by the omnibuses II 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 overhown 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 at his own expense The dredging, in all
cases. to be done with an 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 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 as it was at thecommence-
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 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 NJ Harrison, United States Engi-
neers, at the Office of Major R. Dela6eld, No. ii /,
Seventeenth street, New York.
| JOSEPH G. TOTTEN,
| 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 a week until the 1st day of June,
1853, and two copies of each paper containing the
| advertisement to be transmitted to the Engineer
| Department. April 20-aawtlstJune,