The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-05
PROPOSALS FOR ERECTING A MINT,
WITH THE NECESSARY MACHINERY,

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TssAsgRy DEPARTMENT, October 2, 1852
fGEALED PROPOSALS will be received At this
,ssa Depa .t until the 9Th day of February,
1000, LOT the construction of the Branch Mint at
San Francisco, California ACCORDING tn the Ma ne
and speclhcations which win be furnished on an
licatlon to the Department, to parties dsposed to
contract Inc SAID proposals TO contain bids for
the entire work. and also separately for each d;s
tinct branch of work, the right being reserved to
the Department to contract either way as NAV he
found the most advantageous and advisable The
Department also reserves the right of declining to
make any contract If 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.
Payments will be made every sixty days on the
amount of the work done and materials actually
used the building to be asccrtained by the esti
mates of the superintendent and architect thereof,
reserving from each of such estimates and pay
ments twenty per cent. on the first one hundred
quent estimate after the above sum- until the final
completion of the building, and its approval and
acceptance by the Department 81 y.
4 Every proposal must be accompanied by writ
to the effect that they undertake that the party or
parties making it, if his their bid be accepted,
shall and will enter into a contract and bond with
sufficient suretes to the satisfaction oil 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 pro.
posal will be considered unless it is accompanied
with ouch guarantee. qaas se
Proposals will also be received at the came time
and place for furnishing the needful machinery
for said Branch Mint according to the specifica-
tons, which will likewise be furnished by the De-
partment, and upon the same terms and conditions
as specified above in relation to the building, with
the exception of the amount of the bond required
for the faithful execution of the contract, which
will be in the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
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 Branch Mint, and
upon the same terms and conditions as specified in
relation to the building Such building and ma
chnery 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,
Ii 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 a building and furnishing
the machinery.
The bids will be opened and recorded in the pre-
sence of such bidders as may think proper. to at
tend; and should the bids which may be made
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 advise
that a law has been passed by the Legislator. of
the State of California exempting said Branch
Mint from taxation, &C., as is required by the 9th
section Of the act of Congress of the Sd July, 1882
to establish Branch Mint of the United States in
California. f.
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
vertisement in two newspapers issued in San Fran
cisco, that period having been designated in the
act Of Congress for the notice for proposals in
California The Collector at California will be
furnished with copies of the plans and specifca-
lions for the Information of those who may wish to
make bids there. 49,. THOS. CORWIN,
80. Secretary of the Treasury.
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