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NAVY DEpARTMHNr.

NAVY DEPARTMgnT,
Bureau If Provisions and Clothing, March u, 1882
PROPOSALS, sealed and endorsed Proposals
II for Small Stores" will be received at this Bu-
reau until 8 O'Clock p. IN. Monday, the Goth day
of April next, for furnishing and delivering Con
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 as may be re.
quired or ordered from the contractor by the Chief
of this Bureau, or by the respective commanding
officers of the said navy yards, during the hscal
year ending June 80, 1858, viz:
Boxes, shaving Looking glasses
Brushes, shaving *Mustard-seed
Brushes, sorubbing Needles, sewing, as
Brushes, shoe sorted
Brushes. clothes *Pepper, black
Buttons, navy, vest Pepper, red
Buttons, navy, coat Razors, in single cases
Buttons, dead eye Razor strops
Backing, boxes of Riband, hat
Beeswax Soap,s shaving, in cakes
Combs, coarse Silk, sewing, blue
Combs, line black
Cotton, spoos OF Scissors
Grass, for hats Spoons
Jackknives Thread, black, white.
Hankerchiefs, 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
to the beat of those generally used in the service,
and conformable to the samples tall Of tctich haze
been recently selected and netp) 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 re-
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
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
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 n 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 expressedin the
contract the record of requisiton, or duplicate
copy thereof at the Bureau of Provisions ind 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 a sum equal
to the estimated amount of the contract, will be
required, and ten per centum in addition will be
withheld from the amount of all payments on ac-
count thereof as collateral security, in addition, to
secure its performance, and not in any event to be
paid until it is in all respects complied with; nine
ty per centum of the amount Of all deliveries made
will be paid by the Navy Agent within thirty days
after bills duly authenticated shall have been pre-
sented to him.
Blank forms Of proposals may be obtained on ap-
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 a
bidder OF the acceptance Of his proposal, will be
deemed notification thereof, within the meaning
OF the act of 1916, and his bid will be made and
ed in tv with upde eta nd
Every cfler made must be accompanied Gas d.
rected in the act of Congress making appropria-
tons for the naval service for lS46 AZ, approved
10Th August, lS46) by written guaranty,
signed by one or more responsible persons, to the
effect that he or they undertake that the bidder
bidders will, il his their bid be accepted, enter
into an obligation within five days, with good and
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, or some officer oil the General Govern
ment known 10 the Bureau
Extract from the aG IF Congress, approved August
10, 1916.
"SEc. 8. And be IL further e,sacted, That, from
and after the passage OF this act every proposal for
naval supplies invited by the Secretary Of the Navy
under the proviso to the general appropriation bill
for the navy, approved March third eighteen hun
dred and forty three, shall be accompanied by a
written guaranty, signed by one or more reeponsi-
bic persons to the effect that he they undertake
that the bidder or bidders will, II his their bid be
accepted, enter into obligation in such time as
may be prescribed by the Secretary OF the Navy,
good and uthcent sureties TO furnish the supplies
proposed. No proposal shall be consider red unless
companied by such guaranty. II, after the accept
ance ola proposal and notification thereofto the bid
der or bidders, be they shall fail to enter into
obligation within the time prescribed by the Secrc-
tary Of the Navy, with good and sufficient sureties
for furnishing the supplies, then the Secretary OF
the Navy shall proceed to contract with come other
person persons for furnishing the said supplies;
and shall forthwith cause the difference between
the amount contained in the proposal so guaran =
teed and the amount Tor which he may have con
tracted for furnishing the said supplies for the
whole period of the proposal to be charged up
against said bidder or bidders, and his or their
guarantor or guarantors; and the same may be inn
mcdiately recovered by the United States, for the
zee Of the Navy Department, in an action Of debt
against either or all Of said persons"
Mar i Nd