The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-06-11
PROPOSALS FOR COAL.

NAVY AGEEr's OrFicE,
Washington, ID. c., May 8, ls43.
PROPOSALS will be received at this office, until
i 3 O'Clock Saturday, the eighth day of June
next, for the delivery Of the following COAL, at the
places and IN the quantities herein desgnated viz
AZ Portsmouth, Nep Hampshire.
25 tons of peach orchard red ASH anthracite, bro
ken and screened
5000 bushels average Mid Lothian, bitumnous.
Az Boston, Massachusetts.
$50 tons peach orchard red ash, anthracite, broken
and screened.
1875 tons Beaver Meade anthracite, in lump.
400 chaldrons best Cumberland lump, bituminous
5000 bushels average Mid Lothian, bituminous.
A NeW York, n. y.
50 ons Lehgh, anthracite, broken and screened
SO cbaldrons best Cumberland lump, bitummous
Al Philadelphia, Pa.
50 tons Iehigh anthracite, in lump
5000 bushels e Pennsylvania, bitumnous.
IA Washington, d. &.
10000 bushels average Mid Lothian, b,umnous
5000 " lump do do
IL Norfolk
5000 bushels average Mid Lothian, b,tumin us
All the above GOALS to be OF the very best quail
iy, To be differed at the respective Nay Yards -
one half on before the 5th day Of July next and
the remaining half on or before the 9Th day Of Au-
gust next 2240 pounds Of anthracite coal To the ton
and pecks Of bltuminous coal to the bushol, sub.
ect TO the inspec ton Of officers designated by the
Commandants OF the respective Yards The Bitumi.
nous, Cumberland, and Pennsylvania Coal must be
lump, and be taken from mines the most approved
for the goodness Of its quality and freeness from sui
phur and other impur lies, satisfactory evidence Of
which must accompany the bids, as none other bids
will be considered aud no Cal will be received ex-
cept II corresponds strictly with the description here
IN given. Contracts will be prepared to be executed
by those whose offers accepted for the faithful
performance Of which a bond with two good and
sufficient sure,ies, to be satisfactory to the Govern.
ment, will be required in one-third the amount OF
the contract ten per cent. will b. deducted from the
amount ofesch delivery until the contracts are com
piled with fully and TO the satisfaction Of the Com.
manJapts Of the respective Yards
BY order Of the Chief & the Bureau OF Yards and
Docks VIM Is. 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, PhllsJel-
phia; S,rctator, Washington Old Dominion and
Chronicle, Portsmouth, Virginia.
may 10
uNHE PRAIRIE BIRD, a n vel, by the honorable
i Charles Augustus Murray, author OF Travels in
North America, just reprinted from the English ed.
ton, and this day received Tor sale by
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New Spirit Of the Age, by II. H. Horne, Just
reprinted from the English edition. and tbs day re-
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