The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-29
White Oak and yellow Pine Timber and Lumber,
the Navy.

- until O'clock p M of the 18th February next fur
nishng and delivering timber and lumber for the navy,
follows
1t the Nary Yard at Portsmouth, Nh
10000 cubic feet of white oak and 1880 cubic feet yell
low pine timber.
Attae Nary Yard al Charlestotrn, HAS
$4,000 cubic feet of white oak timber
$4,000 cubic feet of yellow pine timber.
$1,000 superficial feet of one-nch white pine sSE
10000 superficial feet OF oneaid- -quarter-inch
2oooo superficial feet Of one-anda-half inch = :.
$1,000 superficial feet OF two-inch white pine sasE
6ooo superficial feet of threench white pine plank,
best No 2
4ooco superficial feet hree-nc white pine plank bes,
No B. for stage plank, TO be 80 feet long, and to
1t the Nary Yard, at Brooklyn, N. Y
900 CUBIC feet OF White oak timber.
25 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber.
Is superficial feet cypress boards
10000 superficial feet of one-andaquar'er-inch cypress
IONS II E tie Nass sa Yard ' a P faa zaps'
5000 cubic feet of white oak timber.
1T the Nary Yard at G@pon, Va,
50 600 cubic fee, of white oak timber.
At the Navy Yard at Pensacola
10 900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
10 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber.
And yellow pine timber, for opmasts, viz;
Six sticks large enough work 81 feet long and i9 inches
sticks large enough work 81 long and oA inches
diameter.
Wotk
diameter.
Nine sticks large enough work 40 fee, long and M inches
diameter.
The offers price per cubic foot the above di-
nensions
acreage foryve feet and b. less than 50 feet
in length one-haf OF the quantity each yard
than fourteen inches the top end of the sticks The
white oak timber must be roughsuared, according the
edge. The white oak must have no wRne exceeding
fourth the width OF the face OF the de squared the
pNr4 hny Tpr ,f
of the face from each corner but the contents of all sap
viii be excluded IN the measurement Of the timber The
timber must BE- eiled between the Isl OF October and the
LIST OF April The pine be OF the best quality OF long
all the timber be heart wind shakes bad
knots, short crooks, and all other defects and ha and all
are 10 be delivered, and be subject inspection and
Contractors may deliver suits their conve-
nience, but al least oG Of the quantity each of the
articles be delivered by each contractor ls them ON OF
before the first day of October next o-irs on or before
the iirst day OF March ISIS and the whoe OF before the
first day OF July, lSls
Separate offers win be received for the pine timber
for topmasts at Pensacola; Tor the cypress boards and
plank and tor the iignunviue the naSy-yard Brooklyn
New York; Tor the white pine boards and plank
for the navyard Charleown, Massachusetts and not
less than three thousand cubic of the white and vel
low pine timber the oilers for each navy-ani mus be
separate and distinct
Persons offering desired offer for no more than they
feel cerain of being able TO deliver within the times above
specified, extension OF time viii. wade aay cirrzs
stances be granted, and tOEeilunes viii be TEidy enforced
The department reserves 10 itself the privilege OF reject
ing offers made b. persons who have heretofore faded TO
complete contracts, il shond deem advisable iH the
public interests.
Every oer made mus he accompanied a directed in
the act OF Congress making appropriations Tor the naval
service loE lSes approved 10th Augnst, ISe, by wr
guaranty si-ue by responsible persons 10
the effect that he they undertake that bidder or MD
ers WILL ii his their bid De accepted an ob
CATION within ve days, with good and sufficient suFeiies
TO farnh the supplies proposed No proposal Nl he
sidered unless accompanied by such guaranty
Bonds with approved sureiies half the es,i-
mated 81 the respective Wln be required
and ben per cengun in addition val % withheld from Tn
amount Of each payment be made, cateral security
Tor the due and faithful performance tine respective con-
tracts which viii account be pad le contracts
sre complied with IN all respects AeI deductinx I-sr
payment win be made by the United States within
hirty days after fricu,s bills, daily certified and approved
shall be presented TO the Ravy agent.
To be published once week ios four weeks the To-
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Washington u G. Eastern Argus, Portland, Me. Angus
a Age, Me; New Hampshire PaIric, Concord, y. III
Morning Post Daily TInl-s, and Boston Courier, Boston
Mass Journal OF Commerce. Morning News Evening
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philadelphia, Pa Republican, and sun Baltimore. Md
beacon Norfolk, Va; New Era, Portsmouth Va sand
srd Raleigh, y C Mercury, Charleston, : c. Constu-
lonaiisi, Augusta ga ana Register, Mobile, Ala
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