The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-12
.smALL STORES. lsss.s4l.. I

WILL BE PUBLISHED EVERY THURsDA
"sMALL STORES" ls53-54.
NAVY DEpAarMEKr,
BUREAU OF PROVISIONS And CLOTHING.
| Is March 81, 1853.
1 PROPOSALS, sealed and endorsed ..proposaIs
4 for Small Stores" will be received at this Bu-
reau until O'Clock p. m. on Thursday the asth
day OF April next, for furnishing and delivering
! ION receiving ten days. notice) at the United
States navy yards at Charlestown, Massachusetts
Brooklyn. New York; and Gosport, Virginia such
quantities only of the following articles as may be
| required ordered from the contractor by the
| chief of this Bureau, or by the respective COM
manding officers of the said navy yards during
| the fiscal year ending June 30, 1854, viz:
Boxes, shaving, Looking glasses
Brushes, shaving *Mustard seed
Brushes, scrubbing Needles, sewing, assor' d
Brushes, shoe *Pepper, black
Brushes, clothes *Pepper, red
Buttons, navy, vest Razors, in single cases
Buttons, navy, coat Razor strops
Buttons, dead eye Riband, hat
Backing. boxes of Soap, shaving, in cakes
Beeswax Silk, sewing, blue. blac X
Combs, coarse Scissors
Combs, fine Spoons
Cotton, spools of Thread, black white,
Grass, for hats and blue
Jackknives Tape, black and white
Handkerchiefs, cotton Thimbles
Handkerchiefs, silk, fam
cy colors
*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 best of those generally used in the service and
conformable to the samples Gall Of .cich haze been
recently selected and neao) deposited at said navy
yards and in this bureau, and subject to such in.
spection 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 Incidental
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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 packed, and
the boxes, bales, or barrels in which the 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 euch
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 requisition, 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
contract; the record of requsition, duplicate
copy thereof, at the Bureau of Provisions and
Clothing, or at either of the navy yards aforesaid
shall be evidence that such requisition has been
mad and received,
Two or more approved sureties in 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
account thereof collateral security, to
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-
scented to him.
Blank forms of proposals may be obtained
application to the Navy Agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Norfolk, Pensacola, and at this bureau.
dord eoffh he inf
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
accepted in conformity with this understanding.
Every offer made must be accompanied Gas d.
rected in the act of Congress making appropria-
tons for the naval service for 1S46-47, approved
10th August, ls46) by written guarantee, signed
by one more responsible persons, to the effect
that he or they undertake that the bidder or bid
ders will if his their bid be accepted enter into
an obligation within five days, with good and suf-
6cient sureties, to furnish the supplies proposed
The bureau will not be obligated to consider any
proposal unless accompanied by the guarantee re-
CURED by law; the competency of the guarantee
to be certified by the navy agent, district attorney,
to the bureau.
Extract from the act of Congress apps oped Au.
gust 10, 1916.
"SEc. 6. And be it further enacted That from
and after the passage of this act every proposal
for naval supplies invited by the Secretary of the
ton bill for the navy, approved March third eigh
| teen hundred and forty-three, shall be accompa-
MED by written guarantee, signed by one or
more responsible persons, to the effect that he
they undertake that the bidder bidders will. if
bis or their bid be accepted enter into an obga-
ton, in such time as may be prescribed by the
Secretary OF the Navy, with good and sufficient
sureties, to furnish the supplies proposed No pro-
posal shall be considered unless accompanied by
such guarantee If after the acceptance of q pro-
posal, and notification thereof to the bidder or
bidders, he or they shall fail to enter into obi
CATION within the time prescribed by the Secretary
Of the Navy, with good and sufficient sureties for
furnishing the supplies, then the Secretary of the
Navy shall proceed to contract with some other
person persons for furnishing the said supplies,
and shall forthwith cause the difference between
the amount contained in the proposal 30 guaran-
teed and the amount for 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
Immediately recovered by the United States, for
the use of the Navy Department, in an action of
debt gainst either or all of said persons"
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