The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-05


WITH THE UECES9ARY MACHINERY,
Ar SAN FRANCIeC0. CALIFORNIA.
TRsAsuay BsPARrnEEr, October 3 1852.
CEALRD PROPOSALS will be received at this
- Department until the 9Th day of February,
1853, for the construction of the Bnnch Mint al
San Francisco, California, according TO the plans
and specifications which will be furnished on ap.
iication to the Department, to parties disposed TO
contract. The said proposals to contain bids FOR
tinct branch of work, the right being reserved to
the Department to contract either way, as may be
found the most advantageous and advisable. The
Department also reserves the right of declining TO
make any contract if the building and machinery
cannot be finished and completed for the sum of
three hundred thousand dollars, to which cum the
expenditure is expressly limited by the act Of Com
gress. f.
Payments will be made every sixtv davs ON the
amount OF the work done and materials actually
used on the building, to be ascerained by the csti
mates OF the superintendent and architect thereof
reserving from each of such estimates and paw
ments twenty per cent. on the first one hundred
thousand dollars, and ten per cent on each subse-
quent estimate after the above sum- until the final
completion of the building, and its 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 or
parties making it, if his or their bid be accepted
shall and will enter into contract and bond with
sufficient suretes to the satisfaction OF the Presi-
dent of the United States and the Secretary of the
Treasury in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, for
the faithful execution of the work; and no pro-
posai will be considered unless it is accompanied
with such guarantee. E
Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place for furnishing the needful machinery
for said Branch Mint according to the specifica-
tons, which will likewise be furnished by the De-
partment, and upon the same terms and conditions
as 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
3 Proposals will also be received at the same time
and place. agreeabiy to the act of Congress- for the
sale, lease, or rent of any building and machinery
suitable for the purpose of Branch Mint, and
upon the same terms and conditions as specified in
relation to the building Such building and ma
chinery 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 fair proportion of
pieces of the different denominations from one 10
twenty dollars each, as now authorized by law.
1t suitable building and machinery are bought
or leased under the authority to that effect granted
by Congress, no contract will of then be
made for the erection of building and furnishing
the machinery.
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 NAV be made
from California not be received at the Department
previous to the aforesaid 6th day of February 1858,
will reserve the right to delay opening the other
dos winch may be presented.
"A decision will be made Bile
after the Department has been officially advised
that law has been passed by the Legislator Of
the State of California exempGng said Branch
MINT from taxation, &c, as is required by the 9th
section OF the act of Congres of the Sd July 1882
TO establish Branch Mint of the United States in
California.
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 ad-
verrsement 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 speciica-
tons for the information of those who may wish to
make bids there. THOS. CORWIN,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Oct s-lawtFebs
TNINE EDITIONS OF STANDARD AUTHORS,
Il English and American, in Poetry and Prose,
may be found at the bookstore of the subscriber,
in many varieties of size and style, from the min
iature volume for the pocket to the large octave
for the library shelves, some of them richly iIus
trated, others finely bound in calf, morocco, and
goat-skin.
Among many others may be named Byron,
Campbell, Irving, Prescott, Gibbon, Wordsworth,
Bryant Pope, Charles Lamb, Walter Scott Coop
er, Cowper, Thompson, Halleck, Bancroft, Gold
smith, johnson, Southey, Shelley, Spenser Chau-
Ger, Milton, Shakespeare, Burns, Macaulay, Hume,
Smollet, Swift, Fielding, Serne, Moore, and 9TH
ers-the English editions imported from London
by himself.
Also, smaller, but select collection of French
authors in fine bindings.
Dec 20 FRANCK TAYLOR.
DOsEW 70 o DIS FRENCH WRITING
IL DESKS.-We have received from Paris one
case of fine Rosewood Desks, viz:
IL extra Regency Desks, inlaid
IL double fold do
II square l6-inch do
IL do 14-inch, plain
IL do IL inch, lined
The above Desks are fresh imported from the
manufacturers, and will be sold at moderate
prices; quality warranted.
A Boy wanted.
T. BASTIANELLI & CO.,
Importers of Fancy Goods, Jewelry,
Perfumery and Brushes, under Browns Hotel.
Dec7
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