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To be offered for /:

The quantities of any or all may be increased OF
diminishcd, as the service may hereafter require
The contracts will therefore be made not for spe-
cic quantities but for such quantities as the SER
may require TO be delivered at thee navy yards
respectively.
liveries arc required must establish agencies at
such places that no delay may arise in furnishing
what may be required and when contractor iails
promptly 10 comply with requisition, tho Chef oil
the Bureau Of Provisions and Clothing shall be au-
thorized TO direct purchases TO be made TO supply
the deficiency, under the penalty 10 be expressed
in the contract; the record OF requisltion, or
duplicate copy thereof at the Bureau OF Provisions
and Clothing at either OF the navy yards afore-
said shall be evidence that such requistion has
been made and received.
Separate offers must be made for each article Tex.
cept sosp) at each Of the aforesaid navy yards and
in case more than one article is contained IN the
offer the Chief Of the Bureau will have the right TO
accept one or more Of the articles contained in such
offer, and reject the remainder, and bidders whose
proposals are accepted (and none others) will be
forthwith notified, and az early as practicable
contract will be transmitted TO them for execution;
which contract must be returned 10 the Bureau
within FIVE days. exclusive Of the time required for
the regular transmission OF the mall
Two or more approved suretics in sum equal
10 the estimated amount OF the respective con-
tracts will be required. and ten per centum in ad-
dition will be withheld from the amount OF all pay
ments account thereof as collateral security, in
addition, to secure its performance, and not in any
event 10 be paid until II IL in all respects complied
with; ninety per centum Of the amount OF all deliv-
cries made viii be paid by the Navy Agent within
thirty days after bills duly authenticated shall have
been presented 10 him.
Blank forms Of proposals may be obtained on ap-
pication TO the Navy Agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Washington, Norfolk, Pensacola, and at
this Bureau.
Every offer made must be accompanied (as di-
rected IN the act of Congress making appropriations
for the naval service for 1861 approved 9th Au
gust 1s46) by written guaranteed, signed by one
or more responsible persons 10 the effect that he
they undertake that the bidder bidders will, II
his or their bid be accepted, enter into obligation
within FIVE days, with good and sufficient suretes
TO furnish the supplies proposed. The Bureau viii
not be obligated 10 consider any proposal unless
accompanied by the guarantee required by law;
the competency Of the guarantee 10 be certified by
the Navy Agent District Attorney, or some officer
ofthc General Government known TO tho Bureau.
record, or duplicate Of the letter informing
bidder Of the acceptance Of his proposal, will be
deemed notification thereof, within the meaning
of the act of 1896 and his bid will be made and &C
cepted in conformity with this understanding
Ertroef from ne act Of Congress, approved dugua
10, 1916.
''Sec 6. Ind BE- u further enacted, That from and
after the passage Of this act, every proposal Tor ma
val supplies invited by the Secretary Of the Navy,
under the proviso TO the general appropriation bill
tor the navy, approved March third, eighteen hun