The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-06
PROPOSALS. FOR REPAIRING BRICK
WALL AROUND OBSERVATORY
NAVY AeEHT's ORIG

y ff NAVY AGEnT's OFFICE,
WAsHINGroN, d. c., November 16, 1852.
GEALED PROPOSALS in duplicate will be re.
~ ceiyed at this Office until 10 O'Clock m on the
seventeenth day of January next, for removing the
coping on the brick wall enclosing the grounds of
the Observatory the east, south, and west side:
for raising. this wall four bricks higher, (excepi
twenty, eight panels, which are to be raised two
feet higher) beginning at the hip in the west wall
and going around by the south to the northern end
OF the east wall.
The wall to be COPIED with coping brick as per
patterns at the Navy Agents Office, from the north
north end of east wall
All the brick. including the coping, to be the best
RED brick; the whole to be laid and filled in with
mortar MADE with best hydraulic cement lime in
equai parts, and proper proportion of clean sharp
SAND; the work TO be finished in a workmanIike
manner.
nias Tor the work must be made per the running
~ ~, ooPng the west wall from north end to hip
p.I INNING loot Tor raising the wall four bricks
ngner and coping it, and per running foot for rais
same. oPAs 'ne
The work not to be commenced before the ,st of
May, 1853 'o' 'ue 'is'
Al the materials and workmanship to be to The
enre satisfaction Of the Superintendent of the OBJ
servatory before LilIs will be approved.
upon the completion of the contract according
to Its provisions payment will be made by the NavY
Agent at Washington, within thirty DAYS after
presenting the bills duly approved by the Superin
tendent of the Observatory
Each offer must be signed by the person or Der
sons making it, and by the guarantors, according
10 the form annexed. and their residence Tpaning
the town and STATED must be distinctly stated
Inc person whose offer shall be accepted will be
nonneo personally or by letter through the post
ONCE, which notice shall be considered sufficient:
ana II ne do not appear and enter into contract for
the work specified within fifteen DAYS from the
GATE OF the notice, contract will be made with
some other person, and the guarantors OF such de-
faulting bidder will be held responsible for all
~ ~
All offers not made in strict conformitu with this
advertisement, in every particular, will, at the
option OF the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrogra-
ply, be rejected. . ..
The bids will be opened in the presence of two
or more witnesses, and also in the presence of the
bidders, If they or any Of them should be pres
ent; and only the person whose offer has been ac-
? And the Department reserves to itself the right
to decline any or all the offers which NAV be re.
celVed, II the sum asked should be greater than
can be paid for from existing appropriations
3 a' ..a FORM OF OFFER.
To the Navy Agent at Washington, D. C.
a. - OF -, in the State of -, hereby
work required for the Observatory wall, under
your advertisement dated 10th day of November.
1852, and subject to all the requirements of the
same. r.- ~. VI WIG
foi l"rite the aggregate In words
Signed by person making offer.
The undersigned -, of -, in the State
of -----, and - f in the State of -.
as guarantors, hereby undertake that the above
named - will, if - offer be accepted. en-
ter into contract, before required, with the
United States, within fifteen days after the date of
notlce' through the post office, of the acceptance
OIL hid as before mentioned
q. [Signatures.]
certify that the above named and
are known to me to be good and responsible guar
al tors in this case - fI-arIi = -,
Ito be signed by a Navy Agent, Collector, or
District Attorney, or some person known to the
agent to be creditable.1
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