The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-02-22

Navy COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.

FEBRUARY 8, 1872
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Proposals for
~ Stop Cloting will be eived at this Office I'M
til o'clock, P. M :, of the first of March next for
furnishing and delivering Con receiving forty five days
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
articles of Sop Clothing hat may be ordered during
the year 1912 by the commandant commanding Of
fcers of the said navy yards respectively, viz:
Drab Pea Jackets
Blue Pea Jackets
Blue Cloth Jackets
Blue Cloth Trousers
Flannel Shirts
Long Flannel Drawers H.
White Linen Frocks
w hite German Linen Trousers
Duck Frocks
Duck Trousers
Woolien Stockings
w oollen Socks
Thick sewed Leather Shoes
Sewed Leather Pumps
Woollen Blankets
Black Silk Handkerchief
White German Linen, Ga wide, for frocks or
trowsers.
All the woollen goods to be made from materials
of American manufacture All the articles are to be
fully equal to the samples which may be deposited in
the Navy Yards near Boston, New York, Philadel-
pha, and Norfolk and at the Baltimore naval station at
which places schedules, showing the sizes ofthe 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 onethrd of the smallest size excepting the shoes
and stockings which must be of sorted 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 authorize; and portion of the
said articles will be received that is not fully equal to
the samples patterns, both in material and work
manshp, and which does not conform in all other
spects to TIE stipulaons and provisions Of the con-
tracts to be made.
The prices to be asked for the several lenomina-
tons of articles enumerated must be mean
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
pense of the contractors in good tight substantial and
dry packing boxes hogsheads, and in good shipping
order free Of charge to the United States and to the
entire satisfaction of the respective commandants
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 distinct contracts 1oW be madeor
each class.
In case of failure on the part of the contractors to
furnish and deliver the several articles which may be
ordered from tbcm, in proper time ana 81 proper qua
Hty the officers agents of the Navy shall be autho-
rzed to purchase what may be required to supply the
deficiencies and any excess of COST over the prices
paid by the respective contractors
Bonds in one-third the estimated amount of the res
pective contracts will be required, with two approved
sureties, and ten per centum in addition will be with
held from the of each delivery made, as 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 sop 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 storekeeper at said navy yards and by the
approval of the respective commandments or 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 rlght
to reject all offers from persons who have heretofore
failed to fulfil their contracts with the Department
sIs-To be published three times week IN the
National Intellirencer, Madisonian, Globe, Army and
NAVY Chronicle d. c.; Boston Atlas and Boston
Morning Post, in Massachusetts, Express and Com
mercia Advertiser New York; American Sentinel
and North American Pennsylvania Baltimore Sun
and Baltimore American, Maryland; and Norfolk
and Portsmouth Herald, Virginia.
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