The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-26

lz,'uu yards IN length. Total s6s q1o
The materials to be excavated is believed to be a
| mixed with sand and shells.
Ii Is supposed that dredging operations can be
carried on for 229 days in the year without inter
ruptIon from the weather, after making fair allow
ance for other casualties and for Sundays.
1t Is required to perform the whole work in one
year after the machinery, &C., is prepared. To
do this by dredging there will be required steam
dredging machines and vessels capable of dis
charging about 1000 cubic yards of mud per day,
complete in all their parts and appurtenances and
supplied with cabins, all requisite store rooms
storage for fuel, cables, anchors boats, Sc, and
cue requisite number OF scows with hopPers to hold
from 5o to 100 cubic yards each.
proposals will be received at the Engineer De-
partment, Washington, until the 18th day of
March, 1852 for the execution of this work, under
one or the other OF the following propositions
list. TO clear out the entire length and deptb of
the channels through the Choctaw Pass and the
EAterlor Passes, or separate portions thereof fur
nishlng all the necessary machinery, vessels ten
GERS, and labor at 30 much per cubic yard of ma
terlal lifted and deposited at distance from the
edge Of The channel, not less than $50 yards
I'd. Iofurnish vessels, machinery, Sc, ready for
the work to the Engineer Department at Mobile;
which vessels, machinery, &C., shall be tested to
the satisfaction of the officers in charge of the
work, and at the expense of the contractor before
being received full specifications will be required
with DETAILS for the machinery, vessels and scows;
embracing materials, dimensions, tonnage, power
OF engine, and pressure of steam, diameter Of CYL
lnder; length of stroke, principle of excavating
machinery, whether patented, where now in use
and by whom; cost of attaching propelling power
and Its arrangement. Drawings are desirable
whenever they be furnished
3D. To work the vessels and machinery supplied
by the United States at stated price per cubic
yard; keeping every thing in repair.
4th. TO embrace the last two propositions in one:
IN which case the machinery, vessels, Sc, would
remain the property of the United States aftepthe
work was completed
The right ofrejecting all the offers which may be
made is reserved. -s5
The Engineer Department to exercise the neces-
say SUPERVISOR through its agents, to secure the
due progress of the work and it's faithful perform.
ance; aud to reserve to itself the right of annuI-
ing the contract at any time should the holder or
holders OF it fail to fulfil its conditions .t .fa
sos, S2S cubic yards are assumed to be the guam
uty OF mud necessary TO be removed in order to
OBTAIN clear depth of twelve and half feet of
water, with well-defined width of three hundred
ieet, on line of twelve thousand seven hundred
YARDS, III the aforementioned channels: and this
number to be paid for, whether it prove, on the
completion OF the work to its full width and DEPTH
greater or lesser quantity
Inc Engineer Department may find il necessary
to limit the width of the proposed channel TO one
hundred and fifty feet in which case one-balf Of
the stated number of cubic yards will be assumed
as the number to be paid for. -
No advances of money will be made by the En-
glneer department under any circumstance W hat
ever.
Payments proportionate to the amount of worI,
cone Will be made monthly, on the certificate Of
the local agents that due diligence has been used
In prosecuting the work; that no interruption TO
It's daily progress has occurred, save that incdent
TO Sundays. BAD weather, epdemical diseases, or
unavoidable derapg cement of machinery, not due
to radical defects in construction or quality Of ma
terlal' The quantity paid for must have been Ia
Ken from section completely excavated to the
depth required.
twenty per cent. will be reserved from all pay-
ments DUE The accruing sums to be finally paid
to the contractors on the completion of the work
or TO be forfeited to the United States in caseof
failure of the same
ALI proposals must be accompanied by testimo-
malls OF high character to the competency of the
proposer to execute the work offered for the rea
blhty OF the suretes must also be manifested The
envelopes should be endorsed Proposals for the
Improvement of the Harbor of Mobile, Alabama
For further particulars address Major W. H.
CHASE, Corps of Engineers. Mobile Alabama
a. JOS. G. TOTTEN,
Brevet Brig. Gen, and Colonel Engineers
To be inserted in the Republic, Intelligencer
and Union, Washington Mobile Advertiser Mo-
bile, Alabama; Louisiana State Republican, New
Orleans Bulletin, and New Orleans Bee New Or
leans, La; Albany Register, and Albany Express
Albany, N. Y; Courier and Enquirer, and Ex-
press, New York Wing, Troy, N, Y; Pennsyl-
vania Inquirer, and Daily News, Philadelphia
Boston Courier, Boston Patriot, Baltimore Md .
daily for two weeks one copy of each paper con-
tanning the advertisement to be cent to the Engi-
neer Department Jan 20-d2w