The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-12
NAVY sLoP CLOTHING FOR 1912,


Navy COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
FEBRUARY 8, 1912.
S,EALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Proposals for
- Stop Clothing, will be received at this office,
I'll 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 Slop Clothing thet may be ordered during
the year 1912 by the commandant or commanding Of
fcers of the said navy yards respectively, viz:
Dfab Pea Jackets
Blue Pea Jackets
Blue Cloth Jackets
Blue Cloth Frowsers
Flannel Shirts
Long Flannel Drawers
White Linen Frocks =
White German Linen Trousers
Duck Frocks
Duck Trowsers
Woolten Stockings
Wooen Socks
Thick sewed Leather Shoes
Sewed Leather Pumps
Woollen Blankets
Black Silk Handkerchiefs
White German Linen, Ga wide, for irocks or
trowsers
Allthe woollen goods are 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 near Boston, New York Philade
pha and Norfolk and at the Baltimore naval station at
which places schedules, showing the sizes ofthe die-
rent articles OF clothing, may also be seen Where
the articles TO be of more than size twothrds
OF the number furnished to be of the largest SIZE
and third of the smallest size 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 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 or patterns, both in material and work
manshp and which does not conform in all other re-
spects TO tie stipulaons and provisions of the con-
tracts to be made.
tons of articles enumerated must be ave-
rage prices, without regard to the sizes, and must
he calculated TO cover every expense attending the
fufmen 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 the United States, and the
entire satisfaction of the respective commandants
commanding officers of said wards 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 rH be mddefor
each class.
In case Of failure on the part of the contractors to
furnish and deliver the several articles which may he
ordered from Them in proper time and Of proper qua
Hty the officers agents of the Navy shall be autho-
rzed to purchase hat may be required to supply the
deficiencies:
agreed be paid by contract shall be charged to and
paid bv 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 amount of each delivery made, as COLA
tera security for the faithful performance of the
pectiye 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 nspected approved and received and
bills for the duly authenticated by certificates
inspection and survey by the receipts Of the respec
tive navy storekeepers at said navy yards and by the
approval of the respective commandants 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
I5PTo be published three times week in the
National Intelligencer Madisonian, Globe, Army and
Navy Chronicle, d. c.; Boston Atlas and Boston
Morning Post in Massachusetts, Express and Com
mercial 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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