The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-21
ENaINEER DEPARTMENT,

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT,
WAsHINeToN, April 10, 1858
= EALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
~ Office until the lst day of June 1852 for dredg
ing, by the cubic yard, channel across this bari
navigable at ordinary low water for the vessels
that frequent the Passaic. The minmum depth
10 be eleven feet six inches at ordinary high wa
ter; the minimum 9TH one hundred feet; the
length about mile, giving an excavation
whose minimum will be about (4O ,O0O) 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 prolougati OF
the channel of the Passaic along the west channel
towards The lighthouse till the natural channel of
the bay s reached beyond the present bar.
The dredging lie to be executed in what in 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 by the omnibuses. 1t is also passed
sew eral 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, overdown at every high tide,
are overgrown with sedge, and offer facilities for
the deposit and retention the dredged matter.
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
the work at his own expense. The dred ging, 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 lat 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. .ota l.
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 ba it at the CONNIE
ment of the work. but no work not at the position
of the required cut as directed by the agent Of the
United States, in excess of its specified dimen-
sions, wilt 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 Enei-
neers, at the Office Of Major r. Dela6eld, No. II
Seventeenth street, New York. ~ sni 81 esq
JOSEPH G. TOTTEN,
Brevet Brig Gen. and Colonel Engineers.
To be inserted in the Union, Inteligencer, 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 gineer
Department April 2O-2awtlstJune
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