The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-18
White Oak and Yellow Pine Timber and Lumber. for
the Navy.

the Navy.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
bureau OF construction, Equipment and Repair,
18th January lsi7
~ until O'clock p. m of the 18th February next for fur
shng and delivering timber and lumber for the navy
At the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, NH
cubic feet of white oak and $1,000 cubic feet of yell
low pine timber.
At the Navy Yard at Charlesopn, Mass
% % ,o G cubic feet Of white oak timber
"a, 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber,
6o,OOo superficial feet of one-nch white pine sss
10000 superficial feet Of oneandn-quarter inch 90
20 ooo s,, White pine ,g plank, ons-,nah.c M
$4,000 superficial Sf feet e' Of ,woinch white pine It'll
plank, JS Sc =
6,Ooo superficial feet Of ,hree-nch white pine plank,
WV No. ). for stage plank, to be 50 feet 6,s, and to
average IL inches wide.
At the Navy- Yard at Brooklyn, N. Y.
10, 900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
superficial feet Of seveneghh.inch cypress boards
10000 superficial feet Of oe'and-aquarer-nch cypress
Is tons Of 2,24O lbs. each, large size lignumvi,pe.
At the Navy Yard at Philadelphia.
900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
5000 cubic feet of yellow pine timber.
At the Navy Yard at Gosport, Va
80 900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
10000 cubic feet Of yellow pine timber.
At the Many fdfd at PenSdc0td.
TO- 900 cubic feet Of white oak timber. ~
10000 cubic feet of yellow pine timber
And yellow pine timber, for topmass, vlz' .l
Six sticks large enough to work 6i feet long and Ivy inches
Six sticks large enough work 81 feet long and sA inches
Nine sticks large enough work 40 and liz inches
diameter.
diameter.
The offers to state price per cubic foot the above di-
All the TIMBER excepting that for opmasts Pensacola,
average foryve feet and none to be less than SO feet
m moi ess than weve ches and oneha not less
than fourteen inches at the top end of the sticks The
white OAK timber must d be e., g e seeog
edge. The white oak must have wane exceeding one
yellow pine have sap than oneeigth of the breadth
of the face from each but the contents of all
win be excluded il the measurement OF the timber The
LIST of April The pine must be OF the best quality OF long
leaf fine grain sound and fresh, southern yellow pine ana
knots short crooks and all other defects and that and all
the other articles must be Of quality to the entire atisc-
the conmanauts of the respective yards where they
are be delivered, and be subject to inspection and
measurement of persons to be designated by them
Contractors may deliver suits their conve-
nence but least onethd of the quantity of each of the
articles must be delivered by each for them on or
the first day of March, lS and the whole on or before the
first day Of July, lS4S.
for opmasts Pensacola; for the cypress boards and
plank and for the lignumvts at the navy-yard Brooklyn,
navyyard, Clarestown Massachusetts, and for
thousand cubic feet of the white oak and yell
low pine timber. The offers for each navyyard must be
separate and distinct.
Persons offering desired offer for than they
feel of being able deliver within the times above
specified, extension of time will, under c,rcn
Stances be granted and orires will be rigdy enforced
The department itself the privilege of reject
ing offers made by persons who have heretofore failed TO
complete contracts, if it should deem it advisable for tho
public interests
Every offer made be accompanied, as directed in
the act Of Congress making tor the naval
the effect that he they undertake that the bidder bid
des WILL if his their bid be accepted enter into obi
CATION within five days. with good and sufficient suretes,
furnish the supplies proposed No proposal will be
sdered unless accompanied by such guaranty
Bonds with two approved suretes i'm one half the es-
and ten per in addition will be Withheld from the
amount 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 contracts
complied with in all respects. After deducting per
cent. payment will be made by the United States within
thirty days after trpieae bills duly certified and approved
To be published week for four weeks in the fol-
lowing papers, viz: Union and National lnelgencer,
Washington D. G. Eastern Argus, Portland, Me-. Angus
ia Age, Me New Hampshire Patriot, Concord, N. IL
Morning Post Daily Times, and Boston Courier, Boston,
Mass journal of Commerce, Morning News, and Evening
Post N. Y. Pennsyvanian Public Ledger and Keystone,
Beacon, Norfolk, Va New Era, Portsmouth, Va: Stand
ard, Raleigh N. c.; Mercury, Charleston, G. Colstu-
tionast Augusta, Ga. and Register, Mobile, Ala
Jan l6-law4w
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