The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-20
white Oak and Yellow Pine Timber and Lumber for
~ r the Navy.

NAVY DEPARTMENT
Bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repair,
C,EALEp PROPOSALS win be received nj his bureau
- until o'clock p @ of the 18th February next io fur
nishng and delivering timber and lumber for the navy
follows
At the Navy Yard at Portsmouth,, Nh
20 900 cubic feet of White oak and 900 cubic feet yell
low pine timber
AtAe Nary Yard at Chariesiocn, Mass
80 900 cubic feet of white oak timber,
Is 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber,
10000 superficial feet OF one-inch white pine ~
boards, S,iSes
20 900 superficial OF onc-and-a-quar,er-incb : :
% oo white pine , plank one-and.ubolr inch aA
1000 superficial feet Of wo-inch white pine gaLg
6,ooe Superficial feet of three-inch white pine plank,
40 900 superficial feet of threench white pine plank
No, 3. Tor stage plank, TO be 80 feet long. ana 10
average IL inches wide
1T the Macy Yard at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Is 900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
5000 cubic feet Of yellow pine timber
$1,000 superficial feet OF even-eighh-ineh cypress boards
10 900 superficial feet of one-and-aquarter cypress
Is tons Of 1910 lbs. each, large size Ggnumvite.
Al the Macy Yard ar Philadelphia.
5000 cubic of white oak timber.
5000 cubic ieetof yellow pine timber.
At he Nauy- Yard al Gospon, Va
50 600 cubic feet of white oak timber,
10000 cubic feet OF yellow pine timber.
1t the Nary Yard at Pensacola.
10 900 cubic feet of white oak timber.
10000 cubic feet of yellow pine timber
And yellow pine timber, for topmass viz;
Six sticks large enough to work 81 feet long and l9 inches
diameter.
Six sticks large enough work 81 long and lss
Nine sticks large enough work 40 eetong ~ inches
diameter.
Nine sticks large enough work 10 feet long and is inches
diameter.
The offers to state price per cubic foot the above di-
All the timber excepting that for opmas', Pensacola,
must feet and be less than 35
in length onehaf of the quantity at each yard must
square not less twelve inches, and half less
than fourteen inches AT the top end OF the sticks The
white oak timber be rough-squared. according the
growth of the and the yellow pine hewed to fair
edge The white oak must have exceeding one
fourth the width othe face of the side squared The
yellow pine have sap than one-eghth of the breadth
Of the face from each bur the contents of all sap
will be excluded in the of the timber. The
timber be eled between the st of October and the
LIST of April The pine be OF the best quality, of long
leaf fine grain sound and fresh, southern yellow pne and
all the timber be free from heart wind shakes, bad
knots, short crooks and all other defects and THAR and all
the other articles be OF quality the entire satisic-
Of the commandants OF the respective yards where they
be delivered and be subject TO inspection and
measurement of persons to be designated by them.
Contractors may deliver soon suits their conye-
nience, but least od Of the quantity of each of the
articles 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
first day Of July, lsis
Separate oilers win be received the pine timber
for tnpmasts Pensacola; for the cypress boards and
plank and for the lignunvitn mt the navyard Brooklyn,
New York; for the white pine boards and plank
less three thousand cubic feet of the white oak and yell
low pine timber. The offers for each nuyyyan must be
separate and distinct
Persons offering desired offer for than they
feel certain OF being able deliver within the times above
specified, extension of time will, under circt-
stances be granted and loreimres will be rgidy enforced
The department. reserves to itself the privilege Of reject
ing offers made by persons who have heretofore failed
complete contracts if it should deem il advisable for the
public interests.
Every offer made must be accompanied directed in
the act Of Congress making appropriations for the naval
service Tor 1867, approved 10Th August, 1916, by
guaranty, signed by responsible persons,
the effect that he they undertake that the bidder bid
dcrs WILL if his their bid be accepted, into ol
CATION within five days with good and sufficient sreiies
TO furnish the supplies proposed No proposal will be
sidered unless accompanied by such guaranty.
Bonds with approved sureties in half the es
mated OF the respective win be required
amour. Of each payment be made, collateral security
for the due ighul performance of the respective
tracts, which will be paid until the
are complied with in all respects After deductng per
cent, payment will be made by the United States within
thirty days aer Hipcats 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 Iniellgcncer,
Washington, ID. G.; Eastern Argus, Portland, Me. Angus
tn Age, Me. New Hampshire Patriot Concord, II. H.
Morning Post, Daily Times, and Boston Courier, Boston,
Mass journal of Commerce, Morning News and Evening
Post, ~ Y; Pennsylvanan, Public Ledger and Keystone,
Beacon Norfolk, Va. New Era, Portsmouth, Va: Stand
ard, Raleigh, ~ G.; Mercary Charleston, c.; Constu
tionalist, Augusta, Ga. and Register, Mobile, Ala
Jan l6-law4w
lOAl, COALITION sale at my wood yard 10th street,