The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-01
White Oak Yellow Pine Timber md Lumber, for
the Navy.

the Navy.
NAVY DEPARTMENT
Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair
CEALED PROPOSALS win be received at this bureau
- until o'clock p. of the 18th February for fur
nishng and delivering timber and lumber for the navy,
follows:
At the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, NJ H.
900 cubic feet of white oak and $4,000 cubic feet Of yell
At the Navy Yard at Charlestown Mass.
80 900 cubic feet of white oak timber,
$4,000 cubic feet of yellow pine timber
90, 900 superficial feet OF one-inch white pine hS
boards, Se;Ses
5000 superficial feet of one-and-aquarer-inch
5000 superficial feet Of one-and-a -half inch "a
80, 900 superficial feet OF twonch white pine ssga
5000 superficial feet of tree-inch white pine plank,
400 pPsrcis feet of hreoneh white pine plank best
average II inches wide
At the Nary Yard, at Brooklyn, NJ Y.
I5 900 cubic feet of White oak timber.
%, 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber.
TO- superficial feet of cypress boards
10000 superficial feet of andaquarternch cypress
At he Macy Yard at Philadelphia.
5000 cubic feet Of white oak timber.
0'0' ''' At The Napy- Yard at Gosport, Va.
50, 900 cubic feet of white oak timber
-''''' ''' At the Navy Yard Yard at Pensacola.
10, 900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
10, 900 cubic feet Of yellow pine timber.
And yellow pine timber, for topmasts, viz:
Six sticks large enough to work 6i feet long and 10y inches
Six large enough work 81 long and lsa inches
Nine sticks large enough work 40 eetong and l4a inches
diameter.
Nine sticks large enough work 46 feet long and LAY inches
diameter.
The offers price per cubic foot the above di
mansions.
All the timber, excepting that for opmasts, at Pensacola,
must feet and be less than 80 feet
square not less than twelve inches and onehu not less
nn fourteen inches a the top END of the sGis The
growth OF the tree, and the yellow pine hewed to fair
fourth width ofihe face Of the sde as squared the
yellow pine have sap than one-eghth of the breadth
will be excluded in the sremen of the timber. The
timber must be teed between the LIST OF October and the
leaf fine grain, sound and fresh, southern yellow pine, and
all the timber must be free from heart wind shakes bad
the other articles must be Of quality the entire satsac
ton of the commandments of the respective yards where they
measurement OF persons TO be designated by them.
Contractors may deliver soon rs suits their conye-
articles must be delivered by each contractor for them
before the first day of October next twohirds before
the first day OF March, 1913, and the whole before the
Separate oilers win be received for the pine timber
for topmass at Pensacola for the cypress boards and
plank and for the lignmvitn the navy-yar Brooklyn,
SsW Ne S FOR s wn s 1os and and plank
less than three thousand cubic feet of the white oak and yell
low pine timber The offers for each navy-yard must be
Persons offering desired offer for no than they
feel certain OF being able deliver within the times above
specified, extension of time WILL under
stances be granted and orteures will be rgdy enforced
The department itself the privilege of reject
ing offers made by persons who have heretofore failed
complete if il should deem it advisable for the
public interests.
Every offer made must be accompanied, directed in
the act of Congress making appropriations for the naval
service for 1867, approved 10Th August 1916, by writ
guaranty signed by responsible persons
the effect that he they undertake thai the bidder bid
ders WILL if his their bid be accepted into obi
cation within five days. with good and sufficient sureties
furnish the supplies proposed No proposal viii be
sidered unless accompanied by such guaranty.
Bonds with approved sureties in half the esti-
mated amount OF the respective contracts will be required
and per in addition viii be withheld the
OF each payment TO be made collateral security
for the due and faithful performance of the respective
tracts, which will account be paid until the
complied with in all respects After deducng per
cents payment VIII be made by the United States within
thirty days after tcate bills, duly certified and approved
shall be presented to the navy agent.
To be published n week for weeks in the fol-
lowing papers, viz; Union and National Inteigencer
Washington, d. @. Eastern Argus Portland Me- Angus
tn Age, Me. New Hampshire Patriot, Concord, N. H.
Morning Post, Daily Times, and Boston Courier Boston,
Mass Journal OF Commerce, Morning News and Evening
Post NJ Y; Pennsylvanan, Public Ledger, and keystone
Philadelphia, Pa; Republican and SUM- Baltimore, Md
Beacon Norfolk, Va. New Era, Portsmouth Va Stand
ard, Raleigh, NJ c.. Mercury Charleston g.; Consttu-
uonais, Augusta, Ga and Register, Mobile, Ala
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