The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-10
NAVY sLoP CLOTHING FOR 1912.
Navy COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
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Navy COMMISSIONERS OFFICE,
FEBRUARY 3, 1912
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed Proposals for
~ Stop Clothing, will be rec eived at this office un-
I'll o'clock, ?, NJ of the first of March next, for
furnishing and delivering ION receiving forty five days
notice. at each or either OF the Navy Yards Cha les-
town, Mass, Brooklyn N. Y, and Gosgort, Va.
such quantities of any all of the following named
articles OF Stop Clothing thet may be ordered during
he year 1912 by the commandment or commanding O..
ficers of the said navy yards respectively, viz:
Dfab 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
Wooen Stockings
Wooen Socks a
Thick sewed Leather Shoes
Sewed Leather Pumps
Wooen Blankets
Black Silk -HandkeIchiefs
White German Linen, Ga wide, for frocks or
trowsers.
All the wooIen 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, Phadel-
pha and Norfolk, and at the Baltimore naval station at
rent articles of clothing, may also be seen Where
the articles to be of more than size wothirds
of the number furnished to be of the largest size
and one third OF the smallest size, excepting the shoes
and stockings, which must be of sorted sizes, and
which VIII be specified in the contracts to be made
All the aforesaid articles must be subject to such
jnspection and survey the Commissioners Of the
NAVY may direct authorize; and no 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 not conform in all other re-
spects to TIE stipulaons 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 every expense attending the
fufment 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 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 contr acts ipH be made for
each class.
In case of failure on the part of the contractors to
furnish and deliver the several articles which may be
ordered from them, in proper time and 81 proper qua
Hf the officers or agents of the Navy shall be aulho
rzed to purchase What may be required to 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
pectye contracts will be required, with two approved
rees and ten per centum in addition will be with
held from the amount of each delivery made as COLA
era security for the faithful performance Of the res
pectye contracts, which will on no account be paid
until the contracts are complied with in all respects
and is to he forfeited to the and benefit OF the
limited 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
paymept 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 sorekeepers at said navy yards and by the
approval of the respective commandments 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
n5eTo be published three times week in the
National Inteiigencer, Madisonan, Globe Army and
Navy Chronicle, d. c.. Boston Atlas and Boston
Morning Post in Massachusetts; Express and Com
mercial 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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