The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-11
To be offered for:

The quantities of any or all may be increased or
diminished, as the service may hereafter require.
The contracts i'll therefore be made not for spe-
chc quantities, but for such quantities the SER
vice may require to be delivered at those navy yards
respectively. .a-e. go se4a
Contractors not residing at the places where de-
hyeries required must ESTABLISH agencies at
such places, that delay may arise in urnshin e
what may be required; and when a contractor fails
promptly to comply with a requisition, the Chief
of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing shall be
authorized to direct purchases to be made to sup
ply the deficiency, under the penalty to be ex-
pressed in the contract; the record of requsition
or duplicate copy thereof at the Bureau of Pro
visions and Clothing, at either of the navy yards
aforesaid shall be violence that such requisition
has been made and received.
Separate Offers must be made for each article
Except soap) at each Of the aforesaid navy yards;
and in case more than one article is contained in
the offer, the Chief of the Bureau will have the
right to accept of the articles cont ed
In such offer, and reject the remainder; and bid
deFs whose proposals. are accepted land none
others) will be forthwith notified, and as early as
practicable q contract will be transmitted to them
for execution; which contract must be returned to
the Bureau within five days, exclusive of the time
required for the regular transmission of the mail
Two or more approved sureties, in a sum equal
to the estimated amount of the respective con-
tracts, will be required, and ten per centum in ad-
ditiOn will be withheld from the amount of all
payments on account thereof az collateral security
in addition, to secure its performance, and not In
any eVeuk W DC p$lO untli IL - In ali respects COM
piled with; ninety per centum of the amount o,
all deliveries made will be paid by the Navy Agent
within thirty days after bis duly authenticated
shall have been presented to him.
Blank forms of proposals may be obtained on ap
plication TO the Navy Agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Boston, New York, Philadelphia
Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk, Pensacola, and
at this Bureau. 49,.
A record, or duplicate of the letter Informing q
bidder Of the acceptance of his proposal, will BE-
deemed q notification thereof, within the meaning
of the act of 1886. and his bid will be made and
accepted in Conformity with this understanding
Every otter made must be accompanied AS direct
ed ia the act of Congress making appropriations fol
the naval service for lS46-47, approved 10th Au
gust, 1856 by written guarantee, signed BY
one or more responsible persons, to the effec
that he or they undertake that the bidder Of
bidders will, If his or their bid be accepted, en-
ter into an obligation within Eve days, With goQe
and sufficient suretes, to furnish the supplies
proposed. The Bureau will not be obligated t.
consider any proposal unless accompanied by th'
guarantee required By law; the competency o
the guarantee to be certified by the Navy Agent
District Attorney, or some officer OF the Genera
Government known to the Bureau.
Extract from the oct Of OoaSrew, approved Aug"'
'.SEc. 6. And b Il further enacted, That from
and after the passage Of this act every proposal fo
naval supplies invited BY the Secretary Of tn
navy, under the proviso to the general APpropria
lon PHI for The navy, approved March third
eighteen hundred and forty three, shall be accom-
panied BY a written guarantee, signed by one o