The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-02-19
NAVY SLOP CLOTHING FOR 1912.

NAVY COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
| FEBRUARY 8, 1912
| CEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Proposals for
~ Stop Clothing, will be received at this office, w
til o'clock, P. M. of the first of March next, Tor
furnishing and delivering, Con receiving forty five dax
notice. at each either of the Navy Yards, Charles
town, Mass, Brooklyn, N. Y, and Gosgort, Va
such quantities of any all of the following named
the year 1912 by the commandant or commanding Of
ficers of the said navy yards respectively, viz:
Drab Pea Jackets
Blue Pea Jackets
Blue Cloth Jackets
Blue Cloth Trousers
Flannel Shirts
Long Flannel Drawers
White Linen Frocks
White German Linen Trousers
Duck Frocks
Duck Trousers
Woolen Stockings
Wooen Socks
Thick sewed Leather Shoes
Sewed Leather Pumps
Wooen Blankets
Black Silk Handkerchief
White German Linen, Cd wide, for fiocks or
trowsers.
All the woolIen goods to be made from materials
of American manufacture All the articles are to be
fully equal the samples which may be deposited in
the Navy Yards Boston, New York, Philadel-
pha, and Norfolk and at the Baltimore naval station at
which places schedules, showing the sizes ofhe dife
rent articles of clothing, may also be Where
the articles to be Of than size two thirds
of the number furnished be of the largest SIZE
and third of the smallest size excepting the shoes
and stockings which must be of asorted sizes, and
which Will be specified in the contracts to be made
All the aforesaid articles must be subject to such
inspection and survey the Commissioners of the
Navy may direct or authorize; and portion of the
said articles will be received that is not fully equal
| the samples patterns, both in material and work
manship and which does not conform in all other
spects to tie stipulatlons and provisions OF the
tracts to be made
The prices to be asked for the several denomina-
tons of articles enumerated must be mean or ave-
rage prices without regard to the sizes, and must
be calculated to cover every expense attending the
fulflment of the contracts including the necessary
metal and naval buttons.
The whole must be delivered, at the risk and ex
pense of the contractors good tight substantial and
dry packing boxes or hogsheads and in good shipping
order, free of charge to the United States, and to the
entire satisfaction of the respective commandants or
commanding officers of said yards of delivery.
Separate proposals must be made-frst, for all the
shoes and pumps; second for all the stockings and
socks; third for all the blankets; and fourth, for all
the other articles as distinct contracts oH be madeor
each class.
In of failure the part of the contractors to
furnish and deliver the several articles which may be
ordered from thom, in proper time and Of proper qua
Hy the officers or agents of the Navy shall be auho-
rzed to purchase what may be required to supply the
Deficiencies and any of cost, the prices
agreed to be paid by contract shall be charged to and
paid by the respective contractors
Bonds in one-thrd the estimated amount of the
pectve contracts will be required with two approved
sureties, and ten per cenum in addition will be with
held from the amount of each delivery made COLA
teral security for the faithful performance of the res
pective contracts which will on no account be paid
until the contracts complied with in all respects,
and is to be forfeited to the and benefit OF the
United States in the event of failures to complete the
deliveries in conformity with the orders that may be
made After making the deduction of ten per centum
payment of the balance will be made by the United
States within thirty days after the said slop clothing
shall have been Inspected approved, and received, and
bills for the same duly authenticated by certificates
of inspection and survey by the receipts of the respec
tive navy storekeepers at said navy yards and by the
approval Of the respective commandants command
ing officers of said navy yards shall be presented to
the Navy Agent, by whom payment is to be made.
The Board Of Navy Commissioners reserve the right
to reject all offers from persons who have heretofore
failed to fulfil their contracts with the Department
I3-To be published three times week IN the
National Inteliigencer, Madisonan, Globe Army and
Navy Chronicle, d. c.. Boston Atlas and Boston
Morning Post in Massachusetts; Express and Com
mcrcia Advertiser, New York; Ameican Sentinel
and North American, Pennsylvania; Baltimore Sun
and Baltimore American, Maryland and Norfolk
and PortsmoutIHersld, Virginia
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