The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-06

White Oak ind Yellow Pine Timber and Lumber,
the Navy.
Navy DEPARTMENT,
Bureau OF Construction, Equipment, and kePaIr,
CEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this bureau
- until O'clock p. M, of the 18th February next, for fur
nng and delivering timber and lumber for the navy,
iollows
At the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H.
20 900 cubic feet Of white oak and 1900 cubic feet of yell
low pine timber.
1.-THE Navy Yard at Charestopn, Mass
80 900 cubic feet of white oak timber,
25 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber,
600Oo superficial feet oil one-inch white pine 60
10000 superficial feet of d-a-quarter-inch
20 900 superficial WeS RI' feet s Of oneandahalf inch
white pine plank, 5GTE
$4,000 superficial feet OF two-inch white pine gaSS
5000 superficial feet of hree-inch white pine plank,
best No. 2
40 900 superficial feet of tree-nch white pine plank best
No. 3, for stage plank, to be 80 feet long, and to
average IL inches wide.
At the Navy Yard, at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Is 900 cubic feet of white oak timber
rs 900 cubic feet of yellow pine timber
Is 600 superficial feet of cypress boards
10000 superficial feet of one-andaquarternch cypress
Is tons Of Z, 2iO lbs each, large size lignumvitse.
HI the Navy Yard at Philadelphia.
5000 cubic feet of white oak timber
5000 cubic It e HTs aov P aSd ' al Gepor na
10000 cubic feet of white oak timber,
-'''' V0 1t the Navy Yard at Pensacola
10000 cubic feet of white oak timber
600 cubic of yellow pine timber
And yellow pine timber, for topmass viz,
Six sticks large enough work 81 feet long and I9 inches
diameter.
Six sticks large enough work long and 19h inches
diameter. a
Nine sticks large enough to work 40 feet long I4 inches
diameter.
Nine sticks large enough to work 4 feet long and I4 inches
diameter
The offers price per cubic foot, the above d
mansions
must aperage fortyye feet and none to be less than IS feet
in length one-haf of the quantity at each yard must
square not less than twelve inches and one-haf not less
than fourteen inches at the top end of the sticks The
white oak timber must be oupfsuuared according to the
growth of the tree and the yellow pine hewed to fair
edge The white oak must have no ,yane exceeding one
FORTH the width o,he fce of the side ms snuared nor the
yellow pine have more san than one-ephh of the breadth
Of the face from each corner but the Contents of all sap
will he excluded in the of the timber The
timber must he fed between the LIST of October and the
Ist If Anri The nine he of the best quality of long
leaf fine sond and fresh southern yellow pine and
ali The timber must be free from heart or wind shakes bad
KNOBS short crooks and all other defects and that and all
The other articles must be of quality to the entire sasac
ton of the conmandants of the respective wards where they
are 10 he delivered and be subject To- inspection and
measurement of persons to he designnted bv them
Contractors NAV deliver as soon ms sts their conve
bn at least onehd Of the Quantity of each of the
must be delivered bv each contractor for them on or
before the first dav of October next ON or before
first dav of Jmly ls4s ~ ~ 1850 - - M
$685., va a. ,ill h rooo,a5 Coz ,a ,,;na ,,har
or toPnasts ut Iehsacoia or the cypress boards ana