The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-16
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
ONCE Of Capitol Building Commissioners
Austin, Texas Juiy /, lsSl

Office Of Capitol Building Commissioners,
Austin, Texas, July ], lssl.
Sealed proposals for supplying al material
and CON pieting every Glars VI work required
In ,he construction Of a new state Capitol al
Austin, Texas, will be received up to
Twelve O'Clock (noon) ON the afteenth
day of November, 1851.
Payments of he entire amount will be made
In lands, anu the award will be to toe low. 81
and best bidder; bids Will. therefore be for the
.mallest quantity Of the three mil ions acres of
the public domain sat apart by law for that
purpose; waoh Is subject 20 an in um brance
oil V2O. 600 twenty thousand dollars Il videnIai
expenses appropriated by the Seyenteeih
Legislature ana made chsrg. able to the
account there of. 1he said lands lie In
Ia IAN, Hartley, Oh ham, Deaf smith, Pal
mer, castro, Bailey. Lamb ana Hockey conn
I &c. OF this State adjoining New Mexico on the
west and tie Indian Territory on the nor, h
Ihey IKE sub-diyided into lea que surveys of
4i2S acres aeh; fled-L otes and descriptions of
Wnich are on hle in the General Land ONCE OF
Isxas, in this city.
The building is to be principally of stone
ciass 10 In dt sign, Its form approx mates the
Greek cross, with pr,j citing cen re and an h q:
rotuhda ana dome ut the intersection of u .
main corridors 1t Ii $50 feet six II ches long /:
exclusive OF porticos, anu 2'S feet ten inches al
the greatest width Besides the ent a nd
dome elevation 1t Is three 'ull stories In height:
co.., prising bul iness and storage apartments,
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judicial, and l.. glslative dep rtments OF the
state sovernment,i GLIDING arrangement and
apparatus Tor Lighting, hating, ventilating,
Plumbing, drainage, sewerage elevators, and
othtr appllan and conveniences of a COM
plete modern state Capitol Working plans
ana specifications covering all detail ,saIpp o.
OF material to be used, as well as a COPY of the
contract to be signed, niay be seen at Ihis Office
on and after the fifteenth day OF October Lext.
bidders Will enclose with their bus q COPY of
This notice to contractors, and also q bond.
WIN satisf ctory security, In the sum oftwenty
thousand dolia y, condition ed that the bidder.
II successful, snail, within twenty days after
, 10 aware, enter into contract as reqn red by
Jaw, and the failure tU do so within the time
specified Will forfeit all claim to the said COZ
tract The cont actor i'll be REQUIRED TO give
bond OF two hundred and fifty thOusan d DOL
iars, with approved security, for the faithful
iuiniiment Of the contract. Blanks for boods
Will be 'urhi he'd. Titles 10 the lands will be
lhs9e US the work p, oRrestes, as shall be pr. VII
oeu IN the contract The character and quality
vi az material VIII be -fignateU in the con.
lract W reference TO samples. which eh Il be
careluliy preserv d, and no material Will re
AloWeu In the structure which Is In any re-
enumeration the samples thus desiR mated
ana preserved. Bids must be endorsed,
,fIopossis for building the Texas State Capt..
~, and be addressed to the capitol Building
commissioners, at Au.tin, Texss. Bidders
are Invited to bs present at the opening of
D,ds, which Will take place promptly at IL
O'Clock, on the fifteenth day of Nov ember next
ny ms ONCE. Attention is called to acts of The
sixteenth Texas Legislature, Chapter 1906 and
p. 81. ~
Toe right to reject any Or all bids is reserved.
N. L. NORTON,
CAPITOL Building COmmissiO ners.