The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-02
PROPOSALS FOR TIMBER FOR THR
NAVY.

itsfg NAVY DEPARTMErT, o prr
ASA BuREAu or ORDHAncE AND HyDaoaRAPHy,
~ ,.,ate..ss5so ~ s5i July %, 1883 IN. /.
CEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed .sProposas for
- Timber, }" will be received at this Bureau until
three O'Clock p. m. of the 22d of August next for
furnishing and delivering, under contract, at each
OF the several navy yards at Charlestown, Masaa-
chusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Gosport, Vir.
ginia, the following described timber, viz:
WHITE OAR-For .Arletrees.
Opieces. length five feel eight inches thickness.
ten inches; breadth, fourteen inches
100 pieces length Ave feet four inches; thickness,
nine inches; breadth, twelve inches
rs pieces length, five feet three inches; thick
-i45, ness, eight and one half inches; breadth,
iH fourteen inches ieH taa ,V.alaiaaI
rs pieces, length Ave feet; thickness, seven and
one halt inches; breadth, eleven inches
~ a6a1 o 4. For Brackets t6 asb ai.'s
$40 pieces, length ak feet two inches; thickness,
iat seven inches, breadth, sixteen inches
t 60 pieces, length six feet; thickness, seven
inches; breadth, twelve and one half inches
800 pieces, length five feet two inches; thick
seven inches; breadth, twenty inches
60 pieces, length i've feet twoinches; thickness,
seven inches; breadth, sixteen inches
$50 pieces, length five feet eight inches; thick
ness, six and one-half inches; breadth,
so pieces, length four feet eight inches; thick
~ ao5 ness, ak and one half inches breadth, ak
For Iransoms, Coach piece making t,oo transoms.)
80 pieces, length four feet eight inches; thick
Hat a4 ness, eight and half inches; breadth,
g Is pieces, length four feet eight inches; thick
ness, eight and one-half inches; breadth,
ft,a sixteen inches ef a7l ss8tiat1
SO pieces length four feet two inches; thickness,
seven inches; breadth, fourteen inches
being about ninety one thousand eight hundred
and fifty two feet (board or inch measure) at each
yard.) g,l
Five hundred white hickory handspikes, six feet
three inches long, three and one half inches square
at the butt and two and half inches square at
the small end. ssA5a 1881 @attF 3t4
The above white oak timber must be of the best
quality and have grown within sixty miles of sea
; water, and taken from butt logs, clear Of knots,
rents, sap, and all other defects. and from the
centre or heart pith. 1t must be got out fair
straight, to sharp corners, and without twist or
wind. G "a 1880 - M
The handspikes must be split from the best white
hickory butts, clear of centre or heart pith, and
dressed down to the prescribed dimensions.
The timber for axletrees must be in single
lengths, and from butt cuts The timber for
"a bracket pieces ma be delivered to cut two
lengths, and for the tranaom pieces to cut four
lengths, or double those above given; but no other
combinations of lengths, nor any timber from top
pieces, will be received for any purpose. aa
In the dimensions of white oak timber, ad Editions
have been made to the net dimensions to which it
lie to be worked; and payment will be made for
any excess beyond the aggregate number OF feet
herein stated for each yard Il any should be re-
contents only will be paid for
None of the timber will be received unless it is
entirely the satisfaction of the respective COM
mandants of the yards at which it 10 delivered.
"a The deliveries may be made early suits the
convenience of the contractors, but the whole must
:. be delivered on or before the first day of July,
1854. 3aa
Separate offers must be made for the supply at
each Of the navy yards named, and for the white
oak and for the hickory but the offers must be for
all Of the white oak and all Of the hickory for each
navy yard. The offer must be by the thousand
feet board measure, for the white oak timber, and
by the piece for the hickory handspikes.
Persons whose offers may be accepted will be
required to enter into contracts which, besides
other conditions, will expressly provide that, in.
they shall in any respect fall to perform the
contracts, the came may be, at the option of the
United States, declared null and void, without af
footing the right of the said United States to re-
cover for defaults which may have occurred, with
the stipulation also that, if default shall be made
by the contractor in delivering all or any Of the
timber contracted for, of the quality, within the
times and at the places named, that then and in
that CAGE the contractor and his sureties will for
felt and pay to the United States, as liquidated
tract nrice, which lquidated dana ges may be re-
covered from time to time as they accrue.
All the aforesaid timber must be subject to in
spection and measurement, according TO the
"printed rules established for the inspection and
measurement of timber for the navy OF the United
States" copies of which may be seen at either
navy yard or navy agents Office
b. granted, and penalties for on.fuflment ,ciH in
all cases be rigidiy enforced. Bidders are therefore
regulated not to offer for more than they are sure
they can furnish ,Oittin the time specified.
Approved sureties in twice the estimated amount
of each contract will be required in the manner
set forth in that instrument and twenty per CEN
tum will be withheld from the amount of each
payment as collateral security for its faithful per-
formance. Eighty per centum OF each bill, up
proved in triplicate by the respective comman-
danta Of said navy yards, will be paid By the navy
after it's presentation to him, duly approved.
" Every offer must be accompanied by written
guarantee (tbe responsibility of the guarantor or
guaranors TO be certified to by navy agent or
Other official person, or by some one known to the
bureau) that, if the offer be accepted, the bidder
or bidders will, within ten days after the receipt
cute the same, with good and sufficient sureties, to
furnish the articles proposed agreeably to the
terms specified in the contract The law of the
10th August. 1896 torbids the consideration OF all
. I Thoee only whose offers may be accepted will
be notified, and contracts will be forwarded without
delay.
post Office through which they desire to be ad-
dressed, and the navy agent to whom the contracts
shall be sent for execution.
will be specially notified by this bureau. None
others will be paid for its insertion. a
Form, of guarantee Ito be attached to each c6sr)
We, the undersigned, residents of in the
State OF hereby guarantee, in case the fore
going bid of be accepted, that he Tor they)
will, within ten days after the receipt of the con
tract at the post Office designated in said bid, exc
cute the same with good and sufficient sureties,
furnish thsrrtices proposed, in conformity with
the terms of the advertisement under which 1t il
made. G.. ID.
E. +.
thereby certify that, to the best of my know
ledge and belief, the above named guarantors are
good and sufficient
G.. H Navy Agent
Form of endorsement on the envelope Transmitting IN
Offer.
"Proposals for Timber" at the Navy Yard