The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1847-02-04
WHITE OAK AND YELLOW PINE
TIMBER AND LUMBER. FOR TIE NAVY

WHITE OAK AND YELLOW PINE
TIMBER AND LUMBER. FOR TIE NAVY
NAVY DEPARTMENT. }
Bureau or Construction, Equipment and Repair, :
January l5, ISa7.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
- Bureau until 3o'cl ok, p NJ OF the 18th Feb
rnaTy next Tor fnrnishing and delivering Timber
and Lumber for the Navy, f,llows:
At The Navy Yard, at Portsmouth, " H.
10000 cubic feet of hc oak, and Is 900 cubic feet
OF yellow pine timber
At The Navy Yard, at Charls s'oton, Mass
10000 cubic feet of white oak timber,
25OOO cubic feet of yellow pnn TIMER.
$1,000 superficial feet o! one-nch whitel 49,
pine boards, S.s
90 900 SUPER feet of onc-and- "A quar-. 90
ter inch white pine plank
20COo superficial feet of one aida half = -
inch white pine plank, = g
$4,000 superficial feet of two. inch white y az
pine plank, =G
5000 snpSrfieisl feet of three inch white piSS
10000 superficial feet OF three inch white min.
e fn", H. best No 3, for star, plank to lie 80
At The Navy va d. at BROOKLYN, ~ Y
$4,000 cubic feet of white oak timber
25,00O cubic feet of yellow pine timber
ioOOO superficial feet of seven eighth inch cypress
boards,
10000 superficial ce Of and-a quarterback cy.
press plank: ard
10 tons of , ,24o lbs. each large fize lignumviiae
~ The Macy Yard, at Phi'odeipiia
1000 cubic feet of white oak timber,
$4,000 cubic feet of yellow pine timl or.
HI The Navy Yard, at Gosporf w.
sO,OOO cubic feet of white oak nm er.
1000 cubic feet ct yellow pine timber.
ut The Nary Yard, at Pensacola
10000 cubic feet of white oak timber,
10000 cubic feet of yellow pine mber
And yellow pine timber, for topma~ts viz:
Six sticks large enough work 6 feet long a nd
195 inches diameter,
Six sticks large CROUCH work 81 feet long an 4
49, inches diameter.
Eine sticks large enough to work 40 feet LONG and
l4i inches diameter,
Nine sticks large enough to work 46 feet long a nd
l45 inches diameter,
The offers to state price per cubic foot at the -
bovc dimensions.
All the timber, excepting that for tonmasis Al,
Pensacola, must arerdyP urtv- five feet and none tc,
be less than 80 feet in length; one half OF the guam
hty at each Var! must square rot less Than twelve
inches. and nc half not less than fourteen ircice
at the top end Of The sticks The white o k timber
must be rough squared, according to the growth
OF the tree, aud The yellow pine hewed 10 a fair
edge. The white oak must hovc no wnnc exceed.
ing one fourth the width of 'hc face of the side as
squared, nor the yellow pine have more sap tina
one.eighth of the breadth o! the fac from each
corners but the contents of all srp will be excluded
III the measurement OF the timber. The timber
must be felcd between the ist of October and the
LIST April The pine must be Of The best O. atty, OF
leaf, fine grain, sound and fresh, southern yellow
pine and all the timber be free from heart or
wind shakes, bad knots, short crooks and all other
detects; and that. and all tho other artcl S, must
be OF quality to the entire satisIact nn of the com
mandants of the Respective Yards where thew are
to be delivered and be subject t. Inspection and
measurement of persons TO be designated by ,bctn
Contractors may liver "a sncn as suits the; p
convenience, but at least one third of the quanti v
OF each of the articles must be delivered by each
contractor for them ON before the first day of
March, 'o4S' and the hole on or before the first
day of July, lS4S.
Separate Offers will be received for the pine tim
her for 'opmasts at Pensacola for The cypress
boz rds and plank and for the li9nuv sc at the. Ma
w Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts,, and for not
less than three thousa nd cubic feet of the vhc = l.
aud ycllov pine timber The offers for each Nayv
Yard must be separate and di.tinct.
Persons offering arc desired to offer for no more
than they e certain OF b ing abe to drlil CT WIKI
IN the times above spccf d, extension of time
will, under any circumstances, b. grant, d. and for
FIXTURES will be rigidly 90 ced.
The department reserves to Itself ihc privilege of
rejecting Oilers made by pcr,ons who have hereto
fore failed to complete contracts iii should deem
1t advisable for the public interests
Every offer m1dC must bc accompanied ~ direct
cd in the act of Con gress king appoDriatons or
tn" naval service fr lSiG.'7, approved fOih An
gust, 1916, by a wriiien guaranty, signed bv one
or more responsible persons, the cfcct that he or
they undertake that tie bidder or bidders VIII if
ms or thcir lid be accepted, enter into an obiira
ton within five DAYS, with good and sufficient
suretics, TO furnish the supplies proposed No nro
such guaranty. -
estimated amount oi the respective contracts will
be required, and ten per centum in addition will
be withheld from the amount of each payment to
be made, as collateral security for the due and
faithful performance of the respective contracts
which viii on account be paid until the contracts
are complied with in pccts After doductin1r
ten per cent. ayncn; viii be- made bv the Unifc1
states within thirty days after Gipiicsie bile duly
certified and approved, shall be presented TO the
navy agent.
To be published once "a week for four weeks in
the following papers, viz: Union and National In
telhgenccr, Warrington y. c.. Eastern Argus
Porthnd, Me; Augusta Age, Me. Nv Hamp,
shire Patriot, CONGO d, n. H.; Morning Post D,iiv
Times, aud Boston Cou.icr, Boston, Mass: Jnur.
nal of Commerce, Morning New. and Eycr1np
POST n. Y :; PennsyIvanian, Public Ledger, and
keystone, Philadelphia Pa. Republican ano Sun
BalthIorc, VI: D.. Beacon, Norf.Ik, Va. New ra ,
Portsmouth, Va. Standard, Raleigh, n Aler.
curry, Charleston, =. &. ;CUnstitutionaist Aueu-ta
Ga. and Register, Mobi c, Ala
Jan 16-law1w