The daily union., 1846-04-28
Proposals for American water-rotted
Hemp.

NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs,
March 9Th, lS46.
GEALED PROPOSALS are invited, endorsed
the navy, six hundred tons Of American water
rotted hemp. The proposals will be received until
3 o'clock p. m. of the first day of May next.
Persons offering may frame their proposals to de-
liver any quantity not less than ten tons, either at
the navy-yard iCharlestown, Massachusetts, or at
such store-house as may be designated by this bu-
reau in Louisville, Kentucky, or at st. Louis, Mis-
souri,. The whole quantity must be delivered on or
before the first day Of January next, and must be ac
companied by satisfactory evidence that it has been
properly water-rotted .
The hemp must be thoroughly dressed cleaned,
free from shivers and must not lose more than six
teen per cent of tow and waste when hatchelled to
the satisfaction Of the inspectors ready for spinning
Its strength must be such that rope Of one and
three-fourths of inch circumference made from
wenty-one yarns, as prepared and tested by the in
spectors 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, the chief of this bureau will
not be received. 1t will De inspected and tested at
the respective places of delivery.
Inspectors and commandant Of yard, or agent,
as the case may require, will certify bills for the
hemp which may pass inspection and be received
by the hemp agent or commandant of the navy
yard, according to the provisions Of the contracts
which may be entered into, ninety per cent. of
which bills to be payble within thirty days after
their presentation to such nary agent as may be
agreed upon by the chief Of this bureau and the
contractors. s.e
Persons offering must state the price, written in
words at length, asked per ton of 2,240 pounds
when delivered, inspected, tested, approved, and
ceived by the agent and inspector, and payable as
above specified and must forward, with their offer,
an obligation, duly executed by two persons Of
L,,o, a. Al.
performance of the offers If they should be accepted
Bonds to one-half the amount of the contracts
which may be made, with two good and suf-
fcient sureties, will be required for their faith.
ful execution, in addition to the deductonl of ten
per cent from all bills paid before the completion
Of the contracts, which deductions will be retained
until the contracts fully completed in all respects
according to their terms.
Offers must be made in strict conformity with
the terms of this advertisement; persons offering
must state by what napy agent they wish their bills
paid, if their offer in accepted, and at what hemp
navy agency they wish to have contracts and bonds
sent for their signature; and f they should be
executed within fifteen days after they are received
by the agents. the department will consider itself at
liberty to accept other offers in place of those thus
neglected.
TIE be published once week until the Goth April
next, in the following papers, viz Union and Intel
igencer, Washington, b. c.; Statesman, Colum-
bus, Ohio; Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio; Union,
Nashville, Tennessee; Appeal, Memphis, Ten
nessee; Democrat Columbia, Tennessee; State
Sentinel, indianapolis, Indiana; Courier, Mad
ison, Indiana; Argus, Quincy, Illinois; st. Clair
Banner, Belleville, Illinois; Democrat, Chicago,
illinois; Register, Springfield Illinois; Missourian,
St. Louis, Missouri Inquirer, Jefferson City, Mis-
souri,; Platte Eagle, Platte City, Missouri; Yeoman,
Frankfort, Kentucky; Democrat, Louisville, Ken
lucky; Gazette, Lexington, Kentucky; Territorial
Gazette and Advertiser, Burlington, Iowa; Courier,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Banner, Little Rock, Ar
kansas.
The papers containing the above advertisement
will be forwarded to the bureau as evidence Of pub
lication.
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