Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-09-25
Navy Beef aid Pork for 1888.
NAVY CoMMIssIoNERsr OrFIcE,

Navy Beef aid Pork for 1898.
NAVY CoMMIssIoNERs' OFFIcE,
18th August, 1892.
UDRoPosALs sealed aud endorsed, will be received
III this Office until goth October next, for supplying
$500 barrels OF Navy Beef and 1000 barrels OF Navy
Pork, of the best quality for the U. s. Naval Services
barrels of Beef and 400 barrels Pork be deliver
ed each of the Navy Yards Charestown and Brooklyn
and the Baltimore Naval Station, respectively; 600 bar
res of Beef and 500 barrels of Pork the Navy Yard
Gospo Va and 400 barrels OF Beef and 800 barrels OF
Pork to be delivered at the Navy Pensacola, W. f. t.
The deliveries must be commenced after the ti
teenh of February, 1888, and be completed by the hi
teenth of April following.
! The Beef must be packed from we'll atted Cattle,
weighing not than $50 pounds nett, 500 pounds
the RooG All the Legs, Leg-rounds, Clods, Cheeks,
Sims and the Neck oEeach ANIMAL must be wholly
cuded from the BARREL and the remainder OF the
be cut into pieces OF ten pounds each, near as
practicable, that 20 pieces will make barrel OF 200
pounds nett weight of Navy Beef.
The PORK must be corn fed and well fatted; all tho
Skulls feet and hndiegs entire, must be wholly excluded
from the barrel and the remainder OF the Hog must be
cut into pieces OF eight pounds each as near possible
that % pieces, not than three oil which shall be
shoulders will make barrel OF 200 pounds nett weight Of
Navy Pork.
The whole quantity Of the said Beef Pork, be
perfectly sailed in the first instance WITH and afterwards
packed with sufficient quantity of clean, coarse, white
Turks Island Isle of May, ST. Ubes SALT and other
to insure its preservation, with flee ounces OF pure sape
ire to each barrel
The Barrels must be made of the best seasoned heart of
white oak, white ash free from sap they be fully
and substantially and nailed and iron hoop
be put upon each chine for additional security against leak
ing by and at the expense of the Contractors Each bar
branded
tvy Pork, with the "Conracor's Nance, aud the ''year
when packed"
The Pork on being delivered the respective
places OF delivery, will be inspected by sworn lnspec
tor, who will be appointed by the respective Commanding
Officers but charge therefor will be allowed by the Co
vement and having passed their inspection, the respec
tive Contractors have the barrels put in good ship
ping ORDER at their own expense, otherwise the Beef and
Pork will not be received.
Bidders state Their prices separately and distinctly
Tor the Beef and for the Pork covering all their expenses
charges, and for each Yard Station separate
hc Tho san1rp npft hair
, ties in detail, must accompany the offers
Bonds the of third of the respective
tracts will be required, and per centum will be with
held from the amount Of each payment collateral
ty in addition TO the bond for the due performance Of the
I respective contracts.
Every bid not made in conformity with this advertise
mcnt, and not received in due time, will be rejected.
The parts the Beef be excluded from the barrel
are particularly designated in the engravings be
TO the Contracts which engravings will be furnished to
persons who intend 10 make offers application this
Office. August 2I. 30-td
NOTICE. offer sale the property which hold at
Ia Louisa Court House lspscuiar situation is SUCH
as well its unusual advantages, that description of
them would make an advertisement TOO long. The build
ngs OF wood, and would require small advance inn
prove them say from thousand TO fifteen hundred dol
lars to make them sufficient for all the advantages which
pertain property The land is of ordinary quality
but in high OF improvement. The tract contains
1872 IL The whole of that which is cleared is in
very fine lth it likewise contains that which is
mon TO such establishments, superabundance of farm
timber and fire wood Should the seasons be congenial
the hay crop, which will be made this year. is worth
at home The land like other land which requires Gull
vaon and Improvement, aud TO be taken of, is
adapted any crop which belongs our climate in Vir-
gina-ltudc SO l2 degrees-and the soil susceptible
by the application of those which easily and rea
Oily be had if there capitalists purchase The
place tho called Louisa Court House, is deemed village
by many ndiv is though could be much
larger if the of the land would lay il of in lots The
the purchasers, in copartnershp originally
twenty-five thousand dollars, i'll the year 1917 or IS
The expenditures and subsequent improvements hay e
been considerable at all events TO make the
this period equal thirty thousand dollars for the whoe
and the profits which annually arise this dull period,
well as the very many bad of ate crop years. has paid
more than cenum and if the purchaser should think
that il to his interest, after examining the peculiar
advantages which the property has, would bring inter-
est OF more than IL l2 per cenum-The subscriber, in
the absence OF those which necessary avail
himself of all the advantages which necessary is
duccd TO offer il for sae.lis situated the road
leading from Richmond north and north west; about so
miles from Richmond and the stage road called
Louisa and Orange line, and is in the direction Chaottes-
vile distant from that place the present road So miles
but the direct route is by the Green springs, the
waters OF which were formerly much resorted to- and
held in high repue.-They, however, the property
il OF Dr. James NJ Morris, and resorted pub
lie watering place.
1t presumed that the place offered sale is general
ly known in Virginia if not in other Staes and the
scrber confidently and in good faith as an
exceedingly valuable and healbul situation. Reference
10 the subscriber for further particulars either by letter
in person, must be Louisa Court House, Va.
o Sept.4. l3i-nl JNo. NJ. PRICE.
e EDROPOSALS far design Of a Bridge across The