The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-04-18

The quantities Of any all may be increased or dinn.
ised, te service hereafter The
will therefore be made for specific quantities. but for
such quantities an the service may require be delivered
al those navy yards respectively
Contractors NOT residing at The places where deliveries
are required must establish agencies such places, that
no delay may in furnishing what may be required
and when contractor fails promptly 10 comply will
question: te Chief Of the Bureau OF Provisions aud Cei
Ing shall be authorized purchase direct purchases
be made ofsuch article articles the contractor shall
be liable Tor any excess Of cost the contract price the
record Of reIistion, duplicate COPY thereof nj the
Bureau Of Provisions aud Clothing al Either Of HE navy
yards aforesaid shall be evidence that such rensiton has
Separate offers be made for zach article, Except
Soap each ofhe Aforesaid yards and bidders whose
proposals accepted Cand oihers) will be forthwith
notified and early practicable contract will be trans
United 10 them for execution; which contract masi be
required for the regular transmission Of the mail.
Two or more approved srees in third the estimated
per in addition will be withheld from the amount
Of all payments thereof collateral security
addition, 10 secure It's performance and not in any
he paid il II Ia In ali respects complied with ninety per
cen,um Of the Of all deliveries made viii be paid
6y the Navy Agent within thirty days sier bills duly
lhsnticaied shall have been presented to him
Blank forms Of proposals may be obtained application
ron New York Philadelphia. Baltimore Washington Nor.
folk Pensacola, aud at this Bureau. VI
Every offer made must be accompanied (ss directed In
service for isis approSs 5h August 1866 ~ writ
TO the effect that he they undertake that the bidder
bidders will his or their bid be accepted ino
obligation within five days with good and sufficient
ties to iarnis' the supplies proposed The Bureau will
moi be obligated consider unless
by the guaranty required by law the competency the
guaranty be certified by The Navy Agent District Ator
ney officer ofthe General Government known
ihe Bureau
record, duplicate Of the letter informing bidder OF
the acceptance 81 his proposal, will be deemed notihce
ton thereof within the meaning otbe OF 1876 and his
bid will be made aud accepted in conformity with this
derstanding
Extract from hsa Of Congress approrsd august TO- 1876
Sec And be nJHher enacted, That, from aud after
the passage Of this act every proposal for naval supplies
invited by he Secretary 81 the Navy under The provso
the general appropriation bill for the navy approved Msrch
third eighteen hundred and ortyhree, shall be acconpa
MED by written guaranty, signed by respon-
sibe persons TO the effect that he they undertake that
the bidder biiders WILL ii his their bid be sccepe
enter into obligation In such time be prescribed
by the Secretary Of the Navy with good and sufficient
nes TO furnish the supplies proposed No proposal shs
he considered unless accompanied by such IT.
amer the acceptance II proposal anh notification there
Of TO the bidder bidders he they shall fail inter
an obligation within the time preprbed by the Secretary
OF the Navy with good and sufficient suretier for furnish
ing the suppea then the Secretary ofhe Navy shall
10 contract with other person persons furnish
fnK the said supplies and shall forthwith cause the differ
antied and the for which he may have contracted
for furnishing the said supplies for the Who'll, period the
proposal 10 be chsrged up against said bidder bidders
and his or their zarantor or giaranors; and the
may be immediately recovered by the United States
the use othe Navy Department. in action ofebt
either or all Of said persons" msrU-iaw4~