The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-12

$50 pieces, length four feet eight inches; thick
ness, six and one half inches; breadth, six
teen inches
For ISansoms, (each piece making t,co transoms.)
S0pieces. length four feet eight inches; thick
ness. eight and one half inches; breadth,
twenty inches
Is pieces, length four feet eight inches; thick
ness, eight and one half inches; breadth,
sixteen inches
SO pieces length four feet two inches; thickness,
seven inchee; breadth, fourteen inches
being about ninety one thousand eight hundred
and fifty two feet (board or inch measure) at each
yard.)
Five hundred white hickory handspikes, six feet
three inches long, three and half inches square
at the butt and two and half inches square at
the small end.
Tho 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 heart pith. 1t must be got out fair.
straight, to sharp corners, and without twist or
wind.
The handspikes must be split from the best white
| hickory butts, clear of centre 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
bracket pieces may bo delivered to cut two
lengths, and for the transom pieces to cut four
lengths, double those above given; but no other
combinations OF lengths. nor any timber from top
piCCess Will OC IoCclVcO LOT any purpose. ~
In the dimensions of white oak timber additions
have been made "a the net dimensions 10 which it
10 to be worked; and no payment will be made for
any excess beyond the aggregate number of feet
herein stated for each yard. II amy should be re-
ceived under prescribed dimensions, the actual
contents only will be paid for.
None OF the timber will be received unless it is
entirely to the satisfaction of the respective COM
mandants OF the yards at which it is delivered.
The deliveries may be made as early as suits the
pNff hat
be delivered on before the first day of July,
1854.
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 accented will be
required to enter into contracts which, besides
other conditions, will expressly provide that in.
case they shall in any respect fail to perform the
contracts, the same may be, at the option of the
United States, declared null and void without af-
fecting 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
hmes and at the places named, that then and in
that case the contractor and his sureties will for
ielt and pay to the United States. as Iiquidated
damages, sum of money equal to twice the con-
tract price, which liquidated damages may be re-
covered from time to time as they accrue.
All the aforesaid timber must be subject to in
'prnted 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 agent's Office.
BE- granted. and penalties for non Julmemt ,OiN in
all cases be rgidiy enforced. Bidders are therefore
.equtsted mott offer for more than they are sure
they can furnish scithin the time specifed.
int ruI. thu~
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-
Tor nance Eighty per centum of each BILL an |
proved in tyipiicate by the respective comman-
danta of said navy yards, will be paid by the navy
agent at the point of delivery. within thirty lays
after it's presentation to him. duly approved
Every offer must be accompanied by written
guarantee (tberesponsibility of the guarantor or
guaranfors 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 suretes to
furnish the articles proposed agreeaby to the
terms specified in the contract. The law of the |
10th August 1916, forbids the consideration of all
proposals not accompanied by such guarantee.
Those only whose offers may be accepted will
De notified and contracts will be forwarded without
delay.
Persons Offering are directed to designate the
post Office through which they desire to be ad-
dressed. and the navy agent to whom the contracts
shail be sent for execution. i
Editors authorized to publish this advertisement
will be specially notified by this bureau. None
others will be paid for its insertion.
Form Of guarantee Ito be attached TO each ofer.)
We, the undersigned, residents of in the
state OF hereby guarantee, in case the FORE
gong bid OF be accepted, that he Tor thcy)
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 suretes 10
furnish the articles proposed, in conformity with
the terms of the advertisement under which il is
made. g. n
Eff.
hereby certify that, to the best of nv know |
ledge and belief, the above named guaranora arc
good and sufficient.
G. H., Navy Agent.
Form Of endorsement The envelope Transmitting The
Offer.
proposals for Timber" at the NAVY Yard
(name the yard)
Chief of Bureau of Ordnance and photography,
Washington, D. C..
PICTURES, by Mrs. Mary Andrews
Ii Denison.
The Boyhood of Great Men, intended as an e.. |
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Helen and Arthur, or Miss Thusa's Spinning |
Wheel, by Miss Caroline Lee Hentz
No 10 Bleak House.
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49,, TAYLOR Il MAURY,