The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-01
NAVY sLOP CLOTHING FOR 1912.
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Navy COMMISSIONERS OFFICE.

Navy COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
FEBRUARY. 8, l842
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Proposals for
~ 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,
such quantities of any or all of the following named
articles of SoP Clothing tibet may be ordered during
the year 1912 by the commandment comma nding Of
icers Of the said navy yards respectively, viz,
Drab Pea baskets
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
Woollen Stockings
Woollen Socks
Thick sewed Leather Shoes
Sewed Leather Pumps
WOOllen Blankets
Black Silk Handkerchief
White German Linen, Ga wide, for ocks or
trowsers.
All the woollen 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 Philade-
pha and Norfolk and at the Baltimore naval station at
which places schedules showing the sizes ofhe die-
rent articles of clothing, may also be seen. Where
the articles are to be of more than size two thirds
of the number furnished to be of the largest SIZE
and onethird of the smallest sze excepting the shoes
and stockings, which must be of a 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 as the Commissioners Of the
Navy may direct or authorize; and portion of the
said articles will be received that is not fully equal to
the samples or patterns, both in material and work
manship and which does conform in all other re-
spects to TIE spulatons 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 prices, without regard to the Sizes and must
be calculated to cover every expense attending the
fuflment of the contracts, including the necessary
metal and naval buttons.
The whole must be delivered, at the risk and ex-
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 or
commanding officers of said yards of delivery.
Separate proposals must be madefrst, 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 aoH be made for
each class
In of failure on the part of the contractors
furnish and deliver the several articles which may be
ordered from them, in proper time and Of proper qua
ty the officers agents of the Navy shall be autho
rized to purchase hat may be required supply the
Deficiencies and any excess of cost, the prices
agreed to be paid by contract shall be charged and
paid by the respective contractors.
Bonds in one-third the estimated amount of the res
pectve contracts will be required with two approved
sureties and ten per centum 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 account be paid
until the contracts complied with in all respects
and is to be forfeited to the use 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 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
I5-To be published three times a week in the
National Intelligencer Madisonan, Globe, Army and
Navy Chronicle, D. c.; Boston Atlas and Boston
Morning Post, in Massachusetts, Express and Com
mercal Advertiser, New York Ameican Sentinel
and North American, Pennsylvania; Baltimore Sun
and Baltimore American, Maryland; and Norfolk
and Portsmouth Herald, Virginia.
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