The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-19
PROPOSALS FOR DREDGING THE BAR
AT THE JUNCTION OF THE HACKEN-
SACK AND PASSAIC RIVERS, NEW
ARK BAY, N. j.
ENGINEER DEPARTMENT,


WASHINGTON, April IS, 1853.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
~ office until the lst day of June, 1852 for dredg
ing, by the cubic yard, channel across this bar
navigable at ordinary low water for the vessels
that frequent the PassaIc. The minimum depth
10 be eleven feet six inches at ordinary high wa
ter; the minimum w 9TH one hundred feet; the
length about mile, giving an excavation
whose minimum will be about Gao ,000) 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 prolongation OF
the channel OF the Passaic along the west channel
towards the lighthouse, till the natural channel of
the bay is reached beyond the present bar.
The dredging is TO be executed in what ia 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 pank-road by the omnibuses. 1t is also passed
several times daily by the steamboats, between
Newark and New York.
The substance comprising the bar is almost
tirely soft black mud, very easily dredged. The
shores nearest the channel to be dredged are dis
tant about mile, are overhown 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 fur
nlsh every thing necessary for the exec ution OF
the work at his own expense. The dredging, 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 (at about the above mentioned distance
of mile) on the adjacent shores as 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.
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 bar as it was at the commence
ment of the work; but work not at the position
Of the required cut directed by the agent of the
United States, in excess of its specified dimen-
| sions, will be paid for. Twenty per cent of the
value of the work done will in all 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 NJ Harrison, United States Engi
neers, at the office of Major X. Deladeld, No. ii
Seventeenth street, New York.
JOSEPH G. TOTTEN,
Brevet Brig. Gen. and Colonel Engineers.
To be inserted in the Union, Intelligencer, and
Republic, Washington; National Democrat, New
York; and Newark Morning Eagle, Newark, New
Jersey, twice a week until the lst day of June
1852 and two copies of each paper containing the
advertisement to be transmitted to the Engineer
Department. April 20-2awi lstJune