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Navy DEPARTM Mt,

ssSMALL STORES'-lSox-oos
Navy DEPARTMENT.,
Bureau tf Provisions and Clothing, March n 1882.
DROPOsALs sealed and endorsed 90 Proposals
Il for Small Stores" will be received at this Blu
reau until O'clock p on Monday, the 10Th day
of April next, for furnishing and delivering ION
receiving ten days notice) at the United States
Navy Yards at Charlestown, Massachusetts,, Brook
Ign, New York, and Gosport Virginia, such guam
titles only of the following articles may be re-
quired ordered from The contractor by the Chief
of this Bureau, or by the respective commanding
officers of the said navy yards during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1868, viz
Boxes, shaving Looking glasses
Brushes, shaving *Mustard-seed
brushes, scrubbing Needles, sewing. as
Brushes, shoe sorted
Brushes. clothes NPeppcr, black
Buttons, navy, vest NPcpper, red
Buttons, navy, coat Razors, In single cases
Buttons, dead eye Razor strCpe
Backing, boxes OF Riband, hat
Bceswax Soap, shaving, in cakes
Combs, coarse Silk, sewing, blue
Combs, fine black
Cotton, spoos of Scissors
Grass, for hats Spoons
Jackkniyes Thread, black, white.
Hankerchicfs. cotton and blue
Handkerchief, silk, Tape, black and white
fancy coors Thimbles
*Mustard and pepper will be required at New
York only, and in the raw state.
All the articles must be Of good quality. equal
and conformable to the samples Gall Of tohich haze
been recently selected and nslo) deposited at said
navy yards and in this Bureau, and subject to such
inspection at the navy yard where delivered as the
Chief of this Bureau may direct, and be in all
spects satisfactory to the inspecting officer, said
officer to be appointed by the Navy Department
All the articles to be delivered free of all incidental
expense to the Government, in proper vessels or
packages. and the price of each and every article
must be the same at the respective places Of de-
livery Every separate package in which one or
more dozen OF the above articles are packed, and
the boxes, bales, or barrels in which the same may
be delivered, shall be marked with their contents
! the name of the contractor, and the month and
| year when put up; and, when desired, in good
substantial shipping order
| The contractor must establish agencies at such
stations other than his residence. that no delay
may arise in furnishing what may be required
and, when the contractor or agent fails promptly
| to comply with requisiton, the Chief of the Blu
reau of Provisions and Clothing shall be authorized
| to direct purchases to be made to supply the def
cheney, under the penalty to be expressed in the
contracts the record OF rcquisitiOn, duplicate
copy thereof at the Bureau of Provisions and Cloth
ing, or at either of the navy yards aforesaid shall
| be evidence that such requistion has been made
and received.
Two more approved sureties, in sum equa
| to the estimated amount of the contract, will be
| required, and ten per centum in addition will bs
| withheld from the amount of all payments &C.
count thereof as collateral security, in addition, t.
secure its performance, and not in any event to b.
|
| ty per centum of the amount Of all deliveries mad,
| will be paid by the Navy Agent within thirty days
after bills duly authenticated shall have been pre-
| scnted to him.
| Blank forms of proposals. ma Y be obtained on o.
plication to the Navy Agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Boston, New York. Philadelphia Bal
| timore, Norfolk, Pensacola, and at this Bureau.
| record or duplicate Of the letter informing
| bidder OF the acceptance Of his proposal, will bt
| deemed notification thereof, within the meaning
of the act oflS46, and his bid will be made and &C
cepted in conformity with this understanding.
Every offer made must be accompanied Gas di
rected in the act of Congress making appropria
! tions for the naval service for 1916 a., approved
10Th August, lSi6) by written guaranty
signed by one or more responsible persons, to tho
effect that he they undertake that the bidder
bidders will, II his their bid be accepted, ente
into an obligation within five days, with good anc
sufficient sureties, to furnish the supplies pro
! posed. The Bureau will not be obligated to con
slider any proposal unless accompanied by the guar
anty required by law, the competency of the guar.
anty to be certified by the Navy Agent, District
! Attorney, officer OF the General Govern
| nent known 10 the Bureau
Extract from The act Of Congress, approoed Augus
10, 1916.
! "SKc. e. Ind be ii further enacfed, That, from
and after the passage OF this act every proposal io
naval supplies invited by the Secretary of the Navy
under the proviso 10 the general appropriation bill
| for the navy approved March third, Ell Eighteen hun
! dred and forty three, shall be accompanied by
! written guaranty, signed by one more RESPONSE
bic persons to the effect that he they undertak,
that the bidder bidders will, il his or their bid be
accepted, enter into an obligation in such time al
may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy with
good and sufficient sureties, to furnish the supple.
proposed. No proposal shall be considered unless
compared by such guaranty. If, after the accept
ance ola proposal and notification thercofto the bid
der or bidders, he or they shall fail to enter into
obligation within the time prescribed by the Secre
ary of the Navy, with good and sufficient suretie,
| for furnishing the supplies, then the Secretary
proceed contract
and shall forthwith cause the difference between
! the amount contained in the proposal so guaran
| tecd and the amount for which he may bnve con
! tracted for furnishing the said supplies for tho
whole period Of the proposal to be charged uI
against said bidder or bidders, and his or their
guarantor or guarantors; and the same may be i'm.
mediately recovered by the United States, for tho
use of the Navy Department, in action of deb
against either or all Of said persona"
March