The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-14
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Office Of Capitol building Commissioners
Austin Texas July L. lsSl

Office OF Capitol building Commissioners
Austin, Texas, july ], lss1.
Sealed propos lis for supplying al material
anu com tletng every class Vf work required
In 'he con struetiou Of a new State Capitol al
Austin, Texas, will be received up to
Twelve O'Clock (uoon) ON she fiftecnth
day of November, 1851.
Payments of he entire amount will be made
In lands, anu the award will be to the lowe 81
ami best bidder; bids Will, therefore be for the
smallest quantity Of the three mil ions acres Of
the public domain set apart by law for that
purpose which is subject TO an In, umbrance
vi t,2O. OOOJ twenty thousand dollars iueiuenLai
expenses Appropriated by The Seventseth
Legislature end made charg.able to the
account there OF. he said lands lie In
Ia lam, Harley, oldham, Deaf Smith. Pal
mer, castro, Bailey Lamb ana Hook ey cOun-
ee. Of this STATE ,adjoining New Mexico on the
west and the Indian Terii,oiy on The nor h
They ATT sub-dlviied Into league surveys of
it2s acres ach; ield-uotes and descriptions Of
which are on hle in The GENERAL Land Office OF
Iexas, In this city.
IN. building is to be principally of stone,
class 10 In design. Its form approx. mates the
Greek cross, with pr6j ctng cen re and Il IN ks:
rotunda aid dome ut The intersection Vt IL q
main corridors. 1t is $50 ieet six In ches long;
exclusive OF porticos, and 2rS feet ten inches n
the creates st width. Besides the basement a nd
dome elevation It Is three ull stories In height;
co Uprising business and storage apartments,
o1nces, vaults, etc. for the entire Executive
judicial, and Ii gis alive dep rtments OF the
state sovernment,i Guiding arraDgemen Is and
apparatus Tor Lighting, heating, ventilating,
plumbing, drainage, sewerage. elevators, and
othtr appl 'ances and c0nveniences of q COM
plete modern stae Capitol Working plana
ana speci locations covering all detail ,samp es
OF material To be used, as well as a COPY of the
contract to be sigoed, may be seen at his office
on and alter the fifteenth day OF October LeAt,
bidders VIII enclose with their bids copy of
THIS notice to contractors, and also q bond,
with ssttsf Glory security, In the sum oftw,ntv
thousand dOlia Q, condition ed that The bidder
II shcce sful, snail, within twenty days after
the award, enter Into contract as requ red by
Jaw and the failure to do 80 within the time
specified Will forfeit all claim to the said co,
tract. The cont actor Ill ! @ required to give
bond OF two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, with approved security, for the faithful
nun lmens of the contract. Blanks for hoods
Will be 'urhi he'd. Titles 10 the lands will BIZ
mtdc as the work pi oeresses, as shall he pr,vi.
ueo In The contract The character and quality
OF al. IL aterial will be d .tignateu In the con.
tract y reference to samples. which sh II be
carefully preserv d, and no material will ue
allowed In the structure which Is In any re-
fpect dl1erentf from the samples thus de sig hated
ara pr eserved, Bids mus be endorsed,
Proposals for building the Texas State Capi.
- and be addressed to the cap itol Building
commissioners" at Austin, Texss. Bidders
are Invited t. be present ut the opening of
bids, which will take place promptly at -
O'Clock, on the fifteenth day Of November next,
at mus ONCE Affection Is cal ed to acts of he
sixteenth Texas Legislature. Chapt r l06 and
ac's OF seventeenth Legis. ature, Chapter 10,
Tue right to reject any or all bids is reserved.
JOS LEE,
N. l.. NORTON,
Capitol Building Commissiou ers