The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-04
PROPOSALS FOR AMERICAN WATER.
RETTED HEMP.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BuREAu OF CONSTRUCTION, EquIPMEsr, &c.
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Navy DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF Construction, EquIPMEsr, &c.
4ih October, lS45.
CEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed proposals
~ for hemp" will be received at this bureau until
the 18th December next for delivering one hundred
and fifty tons of .9muican paie-retted hemp, al such
sorehouse in each of the cities of Louisville, Ken
lucky, and st. Louis, in Missouri, may be desg-
mated by the United States hemp agent at those
places the deliveries to be made between the first
day OF March and the first day Of July, 1876, and
accompanied by satisfactory evidence that 1t has
been tcater-retted in the usual manner.
The hemp must be thoroughly dressed, cleaned,
free from shisers, and must not lose more than
sixteen per cent Of tow and waste when hatchelled
TO the satisfaction Of the inspectors ready for spin
ming. Its strength must be such, that a rope OF
one and three-fourths Of an inch in circumference
made from twenty-oD yarns, as prepared and tested
by the inspectors, or by their direction, will bear at
least four thousand two hundred pounds; and its
LENGTH color, and other properties must be entirely
satisfactory TO the inspectors, or the chief Of this
bureau, or il will not be received. II win be in
spected and tested at the respective places of de-
livery.
For the hemp which may pass inspection and be
received by the agent he and the inspector will cerl-
y bills (for not less than one thousand dollars the
last bill accepted according the provisions of the
contracts ninety per cent. of which to be payable
within thirty days after the presentation of the bills
W ouch navy uScut ub may u8TCeu uPoa " so
chief Of this bureau and the contractors.
Persons offering, must offer for at least thirty
tons, and must state the price (wrtten in words at
lengthy asked per ton Of 2,240 pounds when deliv-
cred, inspected, tested, approved, and received by
the agent and inspector, and payable as above
specified, and must forward with their offer obi
cation, duly executed by two persons of known
responsibility, binding themselves for the perform
ance of the offers, il they should be accepted.
Bonds to pns-half the amount Of the contracts
which may be made, with two good and sufficient
0ireries, will be required for their faithful execu-
ton, in addition TO deduction Of ten per cent.
from all bills which may be approved and paid be-
fore the completion of the contracts which will be
retained until they fully completed, in all re-
spects, according to their terms.
Offers must be made in strict conformity with the
terms of this advertisement
If contracts are not executed within five days
after they have been received by the persons whose
offers have been accepted, the bureau will consider
itself at liberty to offer to the lowest respons
BILE bidder.
To be published once week until LIST December,
in the following papers, viz: The Union, lntelli-
gencer, and Constitution Washington, ID. C. -
Statesman, Columbus; Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio
Union, Nashville; Appeal, Memphis; Tennessee
Democrat, Columbia, Tennessee State Sentinel,
Indianapolis; Courier, Madison, lndiana;--Argus,
Quincy; ST. Clair Banner, Bcllville; Democrat,
Chicago; Register, Springfield, Illinois, Missouran,
st. Louis; Inquirer, Jefferson city; Platte Eagle,
Platte city, ACKNOWLEDGMENT, Frankfort; Demo-
crat, Louisville; Gazette, Lexington, Kentucky
Territorial Gazette and Advertiser, Burlington,
Iowa;--Courer, Milwaukee, wisconsin, Banner,
Little Rock, Arkansas.