The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-29


TnnAaunx DIR nsM1&y, 0ctoter 3, 1864.
|EEALEDsPRopo6Ake viii ~ RECEIVED Il &hil
~ Dapartsa{A6s ua4il tie 6ttsA day 6f February
1850, n6fs6ttion Of lthes bFxneh Mint 81
$4n FFatc3eo1 1tfdrnia, accoFdiAg TO the plans
mid spAtadd< f3cn6 which will boz fufnisAA pS Az
tontraot TheAsid proposals 10 contain bids lor
the entire work, and Ale0 separately for each dis
tnct ihrancho of work, the right being reserved "a
tae Departments to contract either way az may be
found the most advantageous and advisable. The
Department also reserves The right of declining to
make any contract If the building andI machinery
cannot be finished and completed for tie sum d
three hundred Thousand dollars. to which sam the
expenditure is expressly limited BY the act Of Con
Payments will be made every sixty days on The
amount Of the work done and materials actually
nsed on the building, to be ascertained by the est
mates Of the superintendent and architect thereof
reserving from each of such estimates and pay.
ments twenty per cent on the first one hundred
thousand dollars and ten per cent. on each eubse.
qnent estimate after the above sum, until the final
completion Of the building, and it's approval and
acceptance by the Department. = {
Every proposal must be accompanied by writ
ten guarantee, signed by two responsible persons,
to the effect that they undertake that the party
parties making it. if his OF their bid be accepted
shall and viii enter into contract and bond with
sucient sureties to the satisfaction OF the Presi-
dent Of the United States and the Secretary of the
Treasury, in tho aum of fifty thousand dollars, for
the faithful execution of the work; and no pro-
posal will be considered unless it is accompanied
Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place for furnishing the ncedful machinery
for said Branch Mint according to the specifca-
tons, which will likewise be furnished by the De-
partmeHt, and upon the same terms and conditions
al 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 cum 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, or rent of any building and machinery
suitable for the purpose of a Branch Mint, and
upon the same terms and conditions as specified in
relation to the building, Such building and ma
chiney 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 a fair proportion Of
pieces of the different denominations, from to
twenty dellars each, as now authorized by law
If a 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 building and furnishing
the machinery ssi6osn r-s.t s q,
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 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 advised
that q law has been passed by the Legislatur1 Of
the State of California exempting said Branch
Mint from taxation, Sc, as is required by the 9Th
section of the act of Congress of the Sd july 1852
70 establish Branch Mint of the United States in
California. I'll 81
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 adj
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-
tions for the information of those who may wish to
make bids there.as THOS. CORWIN,
al aa2 & Secretary of the Treasury.
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