The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-31
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,
1853, for the construction of the branch mint at
San Francisco, California, according to the plans
and specifications which will be furnished on ap.
plication 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 TO
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 If the building and machinery
three hundred thousand dollars, to which sum the
expenditure is expressly limited by the act of Con-
gress.
Payment will be made every sixty days on the
amount of the work done and materials actually
used the building, TO be ascertained by the es-
mates OF the superintendent and architect thereof
reserving from each of such estimates and pay
ments twenty per cent. on the first one hundred
thousand dollars, and ten per cent. on each sub
sequent estimate after the above sum, until the
final completion of the building, and its approval
and acceptance by the Department
Every proposal must be accompanied by writ
ten guarantee, signed by two responsible persons,
to the effect that they undertake that the party or
parties making it, if his their bid be accepted,
shall and will enter into contract and bond, with
sufficient sureties 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 no proposal
will be considered unless it is accompanied with
such guarantee.
Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place for furnishing the needful 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-
tons 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
Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place, agreeably to the act of Congress, for the
sale, lease, 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
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
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
sence of such bidders as may think proper to
attend; and should the bids which may be m-de
from California not be received at the Department,
previous to the aforesaid 9th day of February,
1852 it will reserve the right to delay opening the
other bids which may be presented.
decision will be made as soon as practicable
after the Department has been officially advised
that law has been passed by the Legislature of
the State OF California exempting said branch mint
from taxation, &C., as 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.
Those persons in California who may be disposed
to make proposals for said building or machinery
will deliver the same to the Collector of Customs at
San francisco previous to the expiration of sixty
days after the first publication of the present ad
vertsement IN two newspapers ssued in San Fran
cisco, that period having been designated in the
act oi 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.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT., March IL, 1853.
The 9th section of the act of Sd March, 1853, "to
supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the
service of the fiscal year ending the Both June,
1853, having provided fthat the time for recev-
inc no IF J,,i,, g.,