The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-03
White Oak and Yellow Pine Timber and Lumber, for
the Navy.


- until O'Clock, p. m, of the 18th February next for fur
nhng and delivering timber and lumber for the navy as
follows
At the Nary Yard al Portsmouth,, N H.
20 900 cubic feet of white oak 900 cubic feet yell
low pine timber.
THE Navy Yard at Charlestown, Mass.
30 900 cubic feet of white oak timber,
1000 cubic feet ofyellow pine timber,
$4,000 superficial feet of one-inch white pine -
10000 superficial feet of one-and-a-quarer-inch
% ooo Whit pine plank z, inc, SN
$4,000 superficial feet Of woinch white pine aEsa
5000 superficial feet of hree-inch white pine plank,
best No.
No. 3, for stage plank, be 30 feet long, and to
average IL inches wide.
1T the Navy Yard, at Brooklyn, ~ Y.
Is 900 cubic feet of White oak timber
% 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber
$1,000 superficial feet OF cypress boards
10000 superficial feet of oneand-a-qnarternc cypress
plank and
w 1t the Nary Yard at PhaadeiphIa
5000 cubic feet of white oak timber
At the Navy Yard at Gosport, Va
so 900 cubic feet OF white oak timber
At The Nary Yard at Pensacola
10 900 cubic feet of white oak timber
10 900 cubic feet Of yellow pine timber
And yellow pine timber, for topmasts VIZ;
Six sticks large enough work 81 feet long and 9 inches
sticks large enough work 81 feet long and l9h inches
Nine sticks large enough work 40 eetong and Ii inches
Nine large enough work i6 feet long and Ii inches
diameter.
The offers to state price per cubic foot, the above d
mansions.
An the timber excepting that for topmasts, Pensacola,
acreage foryve feet and be less than 30 feet
in length one,haf of the quantity at each yard must
than fourteen inches at the top end OF the sticks Ihe
white oak timber must be rouglsquared, according 10 the
edge The white oak must have no wane exceeding one
fourth the width othe face OF the side squared nor the
yellow pine have more than one-eghh oil the breadth
OF the face from each corner but the contents oil all SAP
will be excluded in the measurement OF the timber The
timber must be eled between the LIST of October and the
April The pine be of the best quality of long
leaf fine grain sound and fresh southern yellow pine, and
knots, short crooks and all other defects and that and all
the other articles, must be OF quality to the entire satsiac
are 10 be delivered and be subject to inspection and
measurement of persons to be designated by them
nence but least onehrd of the quantity of each of the
articles be delivered by each contractor for them
the first day of March lSS and the whole on or before the
fret day OF July, lS4s.
for opnasts Pensacola; Tor the cypress boards and
plank and for the lignumyite at the navyyard Brooklyn,
for the navyyard Charesown, Massachusetts and for not
less than three thousand cubic feet of the white oak and yell
low pine timber. The offers for each navyyard must be
Persons offering are desired to offer for no more than tey
feel certain of being able deliver within the times above
onres he ancd and ,rIi,,,re will he rgidly enforced
ing offers made by persons who have heretofore aled TO
complete contracts, if it should deem it advisable Tor the
public interests
Every offer made must be accompanied as directed in
the of Congress making appropriations tor the naval
service Tor 1867, approved 10Th August, 1876, by writ
guaranty signed by more responsible persons to
the effect that he they undertake that the bidder or bid
ders WILL if his their bid be accepted enter into an ob
cation within five days. with good and sufficient etles
furnish the supplies proposed No proposal will be con
sidered unless accompanied by such guaranty.
Bonds with approved suretlcs IN one hall the es-
mated amount respective contracts will be required
and ten PEI ia addition will be withheld from the
amount each payment be made collateral security
Tor the due and faithful performance of the respective con
tracts which will account be paid until the contracts
complied with in all respects After deduoiing ten per
cent payment viii be made by the United States within
thirty days after hicae bills, duly certified and approved
shall be presented 10 the navy agent
To be published once week for four weeks in the fol-
lowing papers, viz; Union and National lnteligencer
Washington, d. c.. Eastern Argus, Portland, Me. Angus
tn Age, Me. New Hampshire Patriot, Concord, n. III.
Morning Post Daily Times, and Boston Courier, Boston,
Mass. Journal Of Commerce. Morning News, and Evening
Post N Y Pennsylvania, Public Ledger, and Keystone
PHILADELPHIA Pa; Republican and sun, Baltimore Md.
Beacon, Norfolk, Va. New Era, Portsmouth, Va. Stand
ard, Raegh, N. c.. Mercury, Charleston c. Constitu
tionalisi, Augusta, Ga. and Register, Mobile, Ala.