The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-19
White Oak and Yellow Pine Timber and Lumber for
the Navy

NAVY DEPARTMENT.
Bureau of Construction, Equipment, aud Repair,
CEALED PROPOSALS win be received at this bureau
- until O'clock p. M of the 10Th February next
nshng and delivering timber and lumber Tor the navy
iollows
At the Navy Yard al Portsmouth, NJ
900 cubic white oak and $1,000 cubic feet yell
low pine timber.
At the Nary Yard at Charlestorcn, Mass
80 900 cubic feet of white oak timber,
rs 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber,
10000 superficial feet of one-nch white pine Ess
20 900 superficial feet of oneand-a- quarterback
white pine plank, lSS0E
10000 superficial feet Of one-anda-half inch - >
% oo0 white pine plank, ,,,,a 59E5
plank, JSG5 g
5000 superficial feet OF three-nch white pine plank
10000 superficial feet of hree-nch white pine plank best
No. g. for stage plank, to be 30 feet long, and TO
average IL inches wide
at the Navy Yard, at Brooklyn, N. Y
Is 600 cubic feet OF white oak timber.
$1,000 cubic feet of yellow pine timber.
$1,000 superficial feet of cypress boards
10000 superficial feet of one-and-aqnarer-inch cypress
Is tons of 22lO lbs. each, large size lignumvitse.
At the Navy Yard at Philadelphia.
I5 600 cubic feet of white oak timber.
1900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber
ut the Navy Yard at Gosport, Va.
80, 900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
10000 cubic feet of yellow pine timber.
At the Navy Yard at Pensacola
TO- 900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
yellow
And yellow pine timber for topmasts, viz;
Six sticks large enough to work 81 feet long and 9 inches
Six sticks large enough work 81 feet long and 49, inches
diameter.
Nine sticks large enough work 46 feet long and Ia inches
The offers price per cubic foot, the above di-
mansions.
average feet and none to be less than IS feet
in length one,ha OF the quantity at each yard must
than fourteen inches the top end of the sticks. The
white oak timber must be roughsquared, according the
edge The white oak must have no wane exceeding one
fourth the width ofthe face OF the de squared the
of the face from each but the of all sap
will be excluded in the measurement of the timber. The
timber be feled between the LIST of October and the
LIST of April The pine be of the best quality, of long
leaf fine gain sound and fresh, southern yellow pne and
knots short crooks and all other defects; and that and all
the other articles be of quality the entire satsac
are to be delivered and be bect to inspection and
measurement of persons to be designated by them.
nence but at least oned Of the quantity of each OF the
articles must be delivered by each contractor for them on or
before the first day OF October next wohirds before
the first day Of March, lsis and the whole before the
first day of July, 1913.
for opmasts at Pensacola for the cypress boards and
plank and for the gnumvite the navy-yard Brooklyn,
for the hayward, Charcstown Massachusetts and for not
less than three thousand cubic feet of the white oak and yell
separate and distinct.
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
Stances be granted and orletures will be rgdy enforced
The department itself the privilege of reject
ing offers by persons who have heretofore failed
complete contracts if il should deem II advisable for the
public interests
Every offer made must be accompanied, directed in
the act Of making ,6 ,s tn the
guaranty, signed by responsible persons
the effect that he they undertake that the bidder bid
ders WILL his their bid be accepted into obi
eton within five days with good pnd sufficient suretics,
furnish the supplies proposed No proposal will be
sidered unless accompanied by such guaranty.
Bonds with two approved sureties in half the esti-
mated amount OF the respective will be required
and per in addition will be withheld from the
OF each payment be made collateral security
for the due and faithful performance of the respective
tracts which will on account be paid until the contracts
complied with in all respects After deducng per
cent payment will be made by the United States within
thirty days after tpicae bills, duly certified and approved
shall be presented 10 the navy agent
To be published once week for four weeks i'm the fol-
lowing papers, viz. Union and National lnteligencer,
Washingon d. G. ; Eastern Argus Portland Me-; Angus
tn Age, Me-; New Hampshire Patriot, Concord N. ii.
Morning Post Daily Times, and Boston Courier Boston,
Mass. Journal OF Commerce, Morning News, and Evening
Post N. y Pennsyvanian Public Ledger, and Keystone,
Philadelphia Pa; Republican and Sun, Baltimore, Md
Beacon, Norfolk Va. New Era Portsmouth, Va. Stand
ard, Raleigh, N. c.; Mercury, Charleston c.. Constit
tionalist, Augusta, Ga. and Register, Mobile, Ala.
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