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


SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this bureau
- until O'Clock, of the 18th February next, for fur
nishng and delivering timber and lumber lof the navy,
follows:
little Nary Yard at Portsmouth,, Nh
900 of white oak and ls 900 cubic feet of yell
low pine timber.
THE Nary Yard at Charlestopn, Mass.
80 900 cubic feet of white oak timber
q, 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber,
$4,000 superficial feet OF one-lhch White pine IL
20 900 superficial feet of one-and-a- quarter-nch -
white pine plank, ls2to1
20, 900 superficial feet Of oneanda-haIf inch - ;
white pine plank, 49,
5000 superficial feet of thee-nch white pine plank.
10000 superficial feet of eeinch white pine plank best
No D. for stage plank, to be 30 feet long, and to
average IL inches wide
At the Nary- Yard, at Brooklyn, N. T.
1900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
1900 superficial feet seven-eghth cypress boards
10000 superficial feet of cypress
Is tons Of 20 lbs. each, large size lgpumvit~.
At the Nary Yard at Philadelphia
5000 cubic feet of white oak timber.
'''0' ''''' At Ii he Nary Nary Yard at Gosport Va.
50, 900 cubic feet of white oak timber
At the Navy Yard at Pensacola.
10, 900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
TO- 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber.
And yellow pine timber, for topmasts, viz;
Six sticks large enough to work "a feet long and I inches
Six sticks large enough to work 81 long 9a inches
Nine sticks large enough work 40 eetong and a inches
diameter.
Nine sticks large enough work i6 feet long and LAY inches
The offers price per cubic foot the above di
All the TIMBER excepting that for opmasts, at Pensacola,
ioryve feet and none to be less than 80 feet
square not less than twelve inches and onchaf not less
than fourteen inches the top end Of the sticks The
growth Of the tree and the Yellow pine hewed to fair
edge The white oak must have wane exceeding one
of
yellow pine have more sap than ghth breadth
of the face from each but the contents OF all
timber be iecd between the st of October and the
LIST of April The pine must be of the best quality of long
all the timber be free from heart wind shakes bad
knots short crooks and all other detects and inai ana al
ton of the conmandants OF The respective yards where they
measurement Of persons 10 be designated by hem
Contractors may deliver as soon as suits their conye-
articles be delivered by each contractor for them
before the first day OF October twohrds before
first day March, lsis and whole before the
Separate oilers win be received for the pine timber
plank and for the ignumvtn the navy-yard Brooklyn,
New York; for the white pine boards and plank
less than three thousand cubic feet of the white oak and yell
low pine timber The offers for each navy-yard mus, be
Persons offering desired to offer for than they
feel certain OF being able deliver within the times above
specified, extension OF time will under any crcu-
stances be granted and orlcres viii be rgdy enforced
The department itself the privilege OF reject
ing offers made by persons who have heretofore failed
complete contracts if it should deem it advisable for the
public interests.
Every offer made must be accompanied, as directed in
the act OF Congress making appropriations Tor the naval
service for 1867, approved 10th August 1886 by writ
guaranty, signed by responsible persons
the effect that he they undertake that the bidder bid
ders WILL if his their bid be accepted into obi
cation within five days with good and sufficient snrecs,
to furnish the supplies proposed No proposal VIII be con
sidered unless accompanied by such guaranty
Bonds with approved surees in hall the estl-
mated OF the respective contracts will be required
and pei in addition will be withheld from the
of each payment be made, collateral security
for the due and faithful performance OF the respective con-
tracts, which will account be paid until the contracts
complied with in all respects Aer deducting ten per
cent payment will be made by the United States within
thirty days after picate bills, duly certified and approved,
shall be presented to the navy agent.
To be published once week for four weeks in the fol-
lowing papers, viz: Union and National lntelgencer,
Washington, d. G. Eastern Argus, Portland, Me Angus
ia 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, N Y Pennsylvanan Public Ledger and Keystone,
Philadelphia, Pa; Republican and SUM- Baltimore, Md /;
Beacon Norfolk, Va New Era, Portsmouth, Va Stand
ard, Raleigh, n. c.. Mercury Charleston, g. Consu-
tonalist, Augusta, Ga. and Register, Mobile, Ala.
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