The San Francisco call., 1898-07-05
PROPOSALS.


 PLANS and specifications invited for an hos pital building-Clerk s office, Board of Super visors, San Francisco, March 12. 1S9S
 In accordance with Resolution No 797 (Fourth Series) of the Board of Supervisors publce notice is hereby given to architects that competitive plans and specifications for the erection of an hospital building will be received in open session of the Board of Su- pervisors on MONDAY AFTERNOON Sep tember l2. 1898. between the hours of 2:30 and o'c clock.
 The proposed building is to be of modern de- sign and to be constructed of stone or brick, or of both, with all the latest scientific i'm proVementS required to construction and sanitation, equal to. if not superior, to any building designed or contracted for hospjtaI purposes. as are indorsed bv medicaI anfbor- o,r. ity as being indispensable in the construction of such building.
 the lot of land selected and approved by the Board of Health. described as follows:
 Commencing at the most southeasterly cor ner of tract of land known as and desig- mated on the official map of the City and County of San Francisco cs the "Almshouse Tract and running thence due north along the easterly boundary line of said Almshouse Tract seven hundred and sxty-dve (765) feet thence due west five hundred and fifty (550) feet: thence due south seven hundred and sixty-fve (765) feet to the southerly line of the said Almshouse Tract; thence due east along the said southerly line of the Aims house Tract five hundred and fifty (550) feet to the point of commencement containing 9.659 acres.
 prepared that the cost of the building shall not exceed In the aggregate the sum of three hundred thousand $500 OOO) dollars, which sum must cover the entire expense for the erection and completion of the proposed building.
 NOTICE-Architects will prepare and sub init with their plans and specifications for said hospital building an itemized estimate of the cost of said building, the statute re- uuiring eight (S) hours to constitute a dav' s work with minimum rate of wages of two (s2) dollars per day, for persons employed on said building with the distinct understanding that no plans or specifications will be enter tained or considered of buildings the aggre- gate cost of which are estimated to exceed the sum of three hundred thousand $500 O00l dollars. Also that the architect whose plans and specifications of the building are adopted will be appointed architect and superintendl ent of the building at a compensation of five (5) per cent of the total cost, and will be re- quired to give a good and satisfactory bond or bonds, as the case may be- to insure the completion and construction of the said building for the amount of the estimate of the cost as made by the said architect The architects submitting plans and specifications determined by the Board to be second third and fourth in merit will receive premiums of 5000, S750 and $500 respectively, with the un- derstandng that any features of said plans and specifications which may he Considered useful or necessary be embodied in the plans adopted may be used without further cost or charge. JNO A. RUSSELL. Clerk.