The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-01

All the AFORESAID CnaIn Caple iron liiust NC VI tLe
very best quality OF american mdnufdcfure Tree
from admixture of foreign iron; 1t must be ham
mercd from blooms into rough bars. That for the
links must then be cut, piled, and rolled to abou
an inch in thickness; then again cut, piled, and
rolled to the required sizes and cut to the required
lengths. That portion for the shackles, swivels,
boxes, and pins, must all be wrought under tn
hammer to sizes and shapes which will be furnished
to the contractor. The whole must be delivered in
stra ght lengths, free from all flaws, ragged ends
or edges, other defects, subject to such proofs
and tesla as the Bureau OF Construction, Equip
ment, end Repair may direct and be in all respects
to the entire satisfaction and approval OF the com
mandant of the Navy Yard aforesaid or II will not
be received; nor wal any part of the said iron be
subjected to test and proof unless satisfactory evil
dence is produced to the said commandant that it
has been manufactured as hereinbefore required.
The quantity required TO make onethird OF the
different sized cables must be delivered on or be
fore the fret day of June next; for another thiro
of all said cables, before the frat day OF Octo
Der next and the remainder on or before the thir-
ty-first day of December next
Persons desirous of offering to furnish the said
iron (sbould any further information be required
to enable them to make their offers) referred to
tho commandant or commanding ohcer oil th'
Navy Yard at Washington, District Of Columbia
To the person whose offer may be accepted par
ticulnr schedules, drawings, and models descrip-
tive of the parts and portions OF each kind OF iron
required will be furnished, when the contract il
prepared for execution, and to which the said iron
must conform.
Offers must embrace the quantity required, and
the price stated By the pound, and the aggregate
amount Of the offer given and carried out.
Approved sureties equal to the estimated amount
of the contract will be required in the manner sci
forth in that instrument and ten per centum in nd
dition will be withheld from the amount of each
payment collateral security for the faithful per
formance of the contract. Ninety per centum OF
each delivery will be paid by the Navy Agent at
Washington within thirty days after the presenta-
ton Of bills, in Liplicafe, approved by tho COM
mandant of the said Navy Yard.
Every offer must be accompanied by written
I guaranty, (the responsibility of the guarantor OF
guarantors to be certified to by navy agent OIL
other official person, or by some one known to tn,
Bureau of Construction &c.,) that il the offer b,
accepted, the bidder bidders will, within tel
days after the receipt of the contract at the post OF
fee designated, execute the same, with good anc
sufficient sureties, to furnish the ead chain cabl,
iron, agreeably to the terms specified in this ad
vertisemcnt, or which may be embodied in th'
contract. The law of the 10th August, 1916, forbd
the consideration of all proposals not accompanied
by such guaranty.
Bidders are particularly cautioned to endors
their offers as above required, that they may be dis
tnguished from other business letters, in order t.
prevent their being opened before the day ap
pointed.
All offers not made in strict conformity with th
advertisement, in every particular, will be consd
cred rejected at the option OF the Bureau OF Con
struction, Equipment, and Repair. The person
whose offer may be accepted will be notified and
contract forwarded without unnecessary delay.
Persons offering are directed to designate tn,
post office through which they desire to be address
ed, and the navy agent to whom the contract shall
be sent for execution. And also required to max,
their bids according to the form hereto annexed.
J. H. LATHROP, Navy Agent.
Form Of an Offer.
hereby agree TO furnish aud deliver at the Navy
Yard at Wash ngton, District OF Columbia, in con
formity with the terms Of the advertisement from
the Navy Agents office ut Washington, of the 22t
day of january, 1861, l,092,i22 lbs. of chain CABLE
iron of the very best quality of American manufac
turc, at the rate OF cents per h., amounting Il
s..
If my offer be accepted. desire to be addressed
tract TO be sent to the navy agent t--for exc
cution.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. B.
To J. II. LATHRoP, esq,
Navy Agent, Washington, d. c..
We the undersigned, residents of --, in tn,
State Of, hereby guaranty that, in case thu
foregoing bid of ---- be accepted, ---- will
within ten days after the receipt of the contrac
at the post office designated execute the came, will
good and sufficient sureties, to furnish the chair
cable iron therein specified, in conformity with tn,
terms of the advertisement under which the sale
bid was made. C.. D.
EFF.
/ hereby certify that, to the best of my know
ledge and belief, the abovenamed guarantors ar,
good and sufficient.
G.. H., Navy Agent.
Envelope to be endorsed Proposals for chair
cable iron.'' Jan 25-law4w