The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-07-31
NAVY BEEF AND PORK FOR 1912.
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NAVY CoMMlssloNERs OFFICE June l5 1871
| SEALED OFFERS, endorsed " Offers for Beef"
~ or " Offers for Pork the may be, will be
received al this office until o'clock p M. Of the Goth
July next, for furnishing and delivering free OF all
| cost and charge To the U nited States
5000 barrels of Navy Beef and 5000 barrels OF
Navy Pork; each barrel to contain two hundred
pounds nett weight, of Beef or Pork. To be deliver
ed as follows viz
1900 barrels of the Beef at the Navy Yard Char
| lestown Massachus
500 barrels of the Beef at the Navy Yard, Brook
lyn, New York
port. Virginia.
600 barrels of the Pork at the Navy Yard, Char
| estown, Massachusetts
1000 barrels of the Pork at the Navy Yard, Brook
yn New York.
l. 900 barrels of the Pork at the Navy Yard, Cos
port, Virginia,
All the said Beef and Pork TO be delivered between
the 9th day of April and the fifteenth day OF June,
1922 unless earlier deliveries should be authorized by
the Navy Commissioners.
The Beef mi st be packed from well faltened cattle
weighing not less than five hundred pounds meet
weight each. The legs and leg rands of the hind
quarters, and the shins and shoulder clods, and a,
least eight pounds from the neck end of each fore
quarter, or the parts marked Nos J. 2, and on the
drawing delineation of the fore and hind quarters of
an Ok, which will be attached to and form part Of
the contract, must be wholly excluded from each bar
rel and the remainder of the carcass must be cut in
pieces of not less than eight pounds each.
The Pork must be packed from corn-fed, wel-fat-
tened hogs, weighing not less than two hundred
pounds each excluding the heads joes, necks, shout
ders hams legs feet and lard and all refuse pieces
and must be cut in pieces weighing not less than six
pounds each.
Both the Beef and Pork must be slaughtered be-
tween the first Of November next and the periods of
delivery and must be sailed with at least one bushe
of coarse Turks Island, Isle of May, St Ubes salt
and with five ounces of pure pulveIzed satpere, to
each barrel, exclusive of pickle, to be made from
fresh water as strong as salt can make it.
! The barrels to be made of the best seasoned white
/ oak white ash slaves and heading IL of the for
mer to be not less than three fourhs OF inch thick
if OF the latter, be not less than inch thick, and
to be hooped least threefourhs with the best
white oak or hickory hoops, except the crosse hoop,
which must be of iron, at least one inch wide, and not
less than the denomination No. IL All at the ex-
pense of the respective contractors.
Each barrel must be branded its head Navy
Beef" or Navy Pork as the case may be, with the
| contractor name, and the year when packed
The Beef and the Pork will be inspected by the In
specting officers at the respective Navy Yards afore
said and by some Sworn Inspectors of salt proyi-
sions who will be selected by the respective Com
handing Officers; but their charges for such nspec-
ton must be paid by the respective contractors who
must likewise have the barrels put in good shipping
order to the satisfaction of the Commandants of the
respective Navy Yards aforesaid after the inspections
and at their own expense
Bidders specify their prices separately and dis
tncy in separate offers for the Beef and for the Pork
and for each of the places of delivery covering all
penses and all charges
Letters from persons binding themselves To become
sueties, If the offers accepted and other letters
from Navy Agent, Commandant al Navy
Yard other person well known the Department,
must accompany the offers Of each person, and state
the belief of the writer that the person offering to
tract is practically acquainted, by experience, with the
best mode of curing and packing Beef and Pork, and
has the ability perform his contract in satisfactory
manner and that his surees have also the ability, in
of failure the part of the contractor to pay the
amount of their bonds
The Board of Navy Commissioners reserve to them
selves the right to reject all offers from persons who
have heretofore failed to fulfil their contracts who
do not forward satisfactory letters, showing their abb
lty and the ability of their suretes, to complete the
contracts.
Bonds in one-third the amount of the respective
contracts will be required and ten per cenlum in ad-
dtion, will be withheld from the of each pay
ment to be made, collateral security for the due and
faithful performance of their respective contracts ;
which will, on no account, be paid until the contracts
are complied with in all respects and is be forfeited
TO the and benefit of the United States, in the
event OF failures to complete the deliveries within the
prescribed periods. And in of failure the part
of the contractors TO deliver the aforesaid Beef and
Pork within the times specified the Navy Commits
sones to have the right direct purchases be made
to supply the deficiencies, and any excess Of
be charged to and paid Ivy the Contractors Payment
| will be made hy the United States (excepting the ten
contracts as before stately within thirty days after the
said Beef and Pork shall have been inspected and
ceived and bills for the shall be presented to the
Navy Agents respectively, duly approved by the Com
mandants of the respective Navy Yards according to
the terms of the contracts.
The parts OF the Beet to be excluded fiom the bar
rel will be particularly designated the engravings TO
he attached to the contracts persons interested
obtain them on application at this office.
ITO be published three times a week in the Ma
uonal lntellgencer, and Madsonian ID. c. Vermont
Vermont Waterman and State Journal and Peo-
pies Press. Massachusetts, Boston Daily Adver.
User, Boston Atlas New York New York Eek
press, New York Commercial Advertiser Pennsyl-
vania North American and Daily Advertiser phil
adcphia) Maryland Baltimore Patriot Baltimore
| American. Virginia Norfolk and Portsmouth Her
aid, and Norfolk Beacon. Kentucky: Louisville
Journal the Observer the IntelIigencer at Lex
lngton,) Commonwealth Cat Frankfort Eagle Cat
! Maysvle.) Ohio State Journal Cincinnati Gazette
| Cleveland Herald, Indiana Indiana Journal Rich
mond Palladium, Wabash Courier, Missouri Mis-.
souri, Republican. June II
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