The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-05-10
PROPOSALS FOR COAL.
NAVY AGENTS OffIcE,

places aud in the qualities herein designated, viz:
At Portsmouth, Ne,o Hampshire.
25 tons of peach orchard red ash, anthracite bro.
ken and screened,
5000 bushels average Mid Lothian, btuminous.
At Boston, Massachusetts.
$50 tons peach orchard red ASH anthracite, broken
and screened
1925 tons Beaver Meade Anthracite in lump.
400 chaldrons best Cumberland lump, btuminous.
5000 bushels average Mid Lothian, bituminous.
Al Nep York, ~ Y.
so IONS Lehigh, anthracite broken and screened.
SO chadrons best Cumberland lump, btuminous.
At Philadelphia, Pa.
SO tons Lehigh anthracite, in lump.
5000 bushels Of Pennsylvania, btuminous.
At Washington, ID. c.
10000 bushels average Mid Lothian bituminous
At Norfolk.
5000 bushels average Mid Lothian, b tumin. us.
All the above GOALS to be of the very best quail
ity, to be delivered at the respective Navy Yards -
one half or before the 5th day of July next and
the remaining half on or before the 5h day of Au-
gust next 240 pounds Of anthracite coal TO the ton
d
ect to the inspec ton Of officers designated by the
Commandments Of the respective Yards The Bitum-
noss, Cumberland, and Pennsy lvana Coal must be
lump, and be taken from mines the most approved
for the goodness Of its quality and lreeness from sui
phur and other impurities, satisfactory evidence Of
which must accompany the bids, as none other bids
will be considered and Coal will be received
cept il corresponds strictly with the description here
in given. Contracts will be prepared, to be executed
BY those whose offers are accepted for the faithful
performance Of which a bond with two good and
sufficient sureties to be satisfactory to the Govern
ment, ill be required in one-third the amount of
the contract ten per cent. will be deducted from the
amount ofeach delivery until the contracts COM
piled with fully and to the satisfaction Of the Com
man, ants Of the respective Yards.
by order # the Chief # the Bureau of Yards and
Docks. VIM. b. SCOTT,
Navy Agent
To be published once week till the time is out in
Hills Patriot, New Hampshire Times, Boston /;
Aurora, New York; American Sentinel, Phadel-
phis Spectator, Washington; Old Dominion and
Chronicle, Portsmouth, Virginia
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Roberts's Dictionary of Geology volume, Lon
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Bischof's Researches on the Internal Heat Of the
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Leithart on Mineral Veins volume, London
Parkinson Organic Remains Of Former World
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Parkinsons Introduction To the study Of Fossil
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Griffns Crystell graphy, volume, London.
Geology Science, applied TO practical purpo-
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Mineralogy, G.ology, and Mineral Analysis, by
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Boase's Primary Geology, volume, London.
System Of Geology by Andrew IRE, | volume,
London.
Phillips Introduction u Mineralogy by Allan, /
volume, London.
Jamesons Mineralogy, l volume, Edinburg.
Macgillvray's Manual Of Geology, ! volume,
London.
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