The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-02-26
NAVY sLoP CLOTHING FOR 1912.
NAVY COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
FEBRUARY 8, 1912.

FEBRUARY Q, lS4I
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Proposals fo,
~ Stop Clothing, will be received at this Office,
til o'clock, P. NJ, 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,
articles of Slop Clothing hct may be ordered during
the year 1912 by the commandant comma nding 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
White Linen Frocks
White German Linen Trousers
Duck Frocks
Duck Trowsers
Woollen Stockings
Woollen Socks
Thick sewed Leather Shoes
Sewed Leather Pumps
Woollen Blankets
Black Silk Handkerchief
White German Linen, Ga WIDE for fl cks or
trOwsers.
All the woolen goods are 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 the Baltimore naval station at
which places schedules showing the sizes ofthe dfe-
rent articles OF clothing, may also be Where
the articles to be of than size two-hrds
OF the number furnished to be of the largest size
and one-thrd of the smallest sze excepting the shoes
and stockings, which must be of assorted Sizes and
which will be specified in the contracts to be made.
All the aforesaid articles be subject to such
inspection and survey as the Commissioners of the
Navy may direct or authorize and portion Of the
said articles will be received that not fully equal to
the samples or patterns, both in material and work
manshp, and which does not conform in all other re-
spects to tie stipuations and provisions Of the con-
tracts to be made.
The prices to be asked for the several denomina-
tons OF articles enumerated must be mean or ave-
rage prlces without regard to the sizes, and must
be calculated to cover every expense attending the
fulfment 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 hogsheads and in good shipping
order, free of charge to the United States, and the
entire satisfaction of the respective commandments
commanding officers of said yards of delivery.
Separate proposals must be made-jfrst 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 ao be made
each class.
In of failure the part of the contractors to
furnish and deliver the several articles which may be
ordered from hem in proper time and Of proper qua
Hty, the officers agents of the Navy shall be auho
rzed to purchase what may be required to supply the
Deficiencies and any excess Of Cost over 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 as COLA
teral security for the faithful performance of the
pective contracts, which will on 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 cenum
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 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 right
to reject all offers from persons who have heretofore
failed to fulfil their contracts with the Department
sI5To be published three times a week in the
National Intellgencer, Madisonian, Globe, Army and
Navy Chronicle, ID. c.; Boston Atlas and Boston
Morning Post, in Massachusetts; Express and Com
merciai 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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