The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-21
PROPOSALS FOR TANK IRON.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.,
BUREAU CONSTRUCTIONS, EoUIp'T. AND REPAIRS,
May IS, 1858.
SEALED PROPOSALS endorsed proposals for
~ Tank Irony will be received at this Bureau
O'Clock p. M, of the 9th day of June next, for
furnishing and delivering at the navy yard at
Washington. District of Columbia, free of expense
and risk to the United States, the following guam
titles of the best American iron, required to make
sir sets of ater-tanks for sloops Of ,rar, viz:
276,0O0 pounds of plate iron, one-quarter OF an
inch thick
Is, 900 pounds of boiler rivets, one inch and
five .eghths long from inside of head
and five eighths diameter
1900 pounds of boiler rvets, two and one
quarter inches long from inside of head
and FIVE eghths diameter
800 pounds of FIVE eighths inch round iron
All the said iron TO be delivered on or before the
last of September next.
The plate iron must be made from the best char
coal blooms, so that il will stand two-inch fiange
all round the edge, and kept free from bsters. 1t
must be cut correctly to size, and kept straight
and level from the shears, and must bear to tur n
the 1anges lengthwise without cracking. Such as
break crack must be replaced by and at the cost
of the contractor.
All to be satisfactory to, and be approved by, the
commandant of said navy yard.
Schedules of the iron will be furnished from the
snid navy yard to the contractor.
The person whose offer may be accepted will be
required to enter into contract, which, besides
case he shall in any respect fail to perform the
contract the same may be, at the option OF the
United States, declared null and void, without
affecting the right of the said United States to
recover for defaults which may have occurred;
with the stipulation that if default shall be made
by the contractor in delivering all or any of the
articles contracted for of the quality and at the
time and place named, that then, and in that case
the contractor and his sureties will forfeit and pay
to the United States, as hQuldated damages, a sum
ri contract price, which
liqudated damages may be recovered from time
to time they accrue.
The cost of each item must be distinctly carried
out, and the aggregate amount Of the whole cor.
rectly footed up.
Approved sureties in twice the estimated amount
of the contract will be required in the manner set
for tn in that instrument, and ten per centum In
addition will be withheld from the amount OF each
payment collateral security for its faithful per-
formance. Ninety per centum OF each bill, ap
proved in tripcate by the commandant of the
said navy yard, will be paid by the navy agent at
the point of delivery within thirty days after Its
presentation to him.
Every offer must be accompanied by written
guarantee (the responsibility of the guarantor or
guarantors 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
of the contract at the post office designated exc
cute the same, with good and sufficient suretles,
TO furnish the articles proposed, agreeably to the
terms specified in this advertisement, or which
may be embodied in the contract. The law OF
10th August, 1916, forbids the consideration of all
proposals not accompanied by such guarantee.
Bidders are particularly cautioned to endorse
their offers above required, that they may be
dstin gushed from other business letters in order
to prevent their being opened before the day ap'
pointed.
All offers not made in strict conformity with
this advertisement in every particular will be con-
sidered or rejected, at the option of the bureau
The person only whose offer may be accepted will
be notified. and contract forwarded without delay
Persons offering are directed to designate the
post office through which they desire to be adj
dressed, and the navy agent to whom the contract
shall be sent for execution.
All editors authorized to publish this advertise
ment will be specially notified by this bureau
None others will be paid for it's insertion
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