The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-13


$50 pieces, length five feet eight inches, thick
ness. six and one half inches; breadth,
thirteen inches
$50 pieces, length four feet eight inches thick
ness, six and one-h half inches; breadth, ak
For TSonsoms, leach piece making too transoms.)
80 pieces, length four feet eight inches; thick
ness, eight and one half inches; breadth,
twenty inches
Is pieces. length tour feet eight inches; thick
ness, eight and one half inches; breadth,
3S pieces length four feet two inches, thickness,
seven inchess breadth, fourteen inches
(Being about ninety one thousand eight hundred
and ffty-two feet (board or inch measure) at each
yard.)
HICKORY va
Five hundred white hickory handspikes six feet
three inches long, three and hes square
at the butt, and two and onehalf inches square at
the small end.
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.
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 be delivered to cut two
lengths, and for the transom 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.
In the dimensions Of white oak timber. additions
have been made to the net dimensions to which it
is to be worked; and no payment will be made for
any excess beyond the aggregate number of feet
herein stated for each yard. lfany should be
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
mandants of the yards at which it is delivered.
The deliveries may be made as early as suits the
convenience of the contractors, but the whole must
be delivered on or before the frat 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 accepted 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
contractssthe 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
timber contracted for, of the quality, within the
times and at the places named. that then and in
that case the contractor and his sureties will for
felt and pay to the United States, az liqudated
tract price, which liquidated damages may be re-
covered from time to time az 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.
No extension Of time for making de';u.ries ,oiu
al cases Be rigidiy enforced Bidders are lheryore
requested not to offer .for more than they are sure
they can furnish ,oithin the time specified
Approved sureties in twice the estimated amount
set forth in that instrument, and twenty per cen
tum will be withheld from the amount of each
payment as collateral security for it's faithful per-
for nance. Eighty per centum of each bill, APP
dants of said navy yards, will be paid by the navy
agent at the point Of delivery. within thirty days
after its presentation to him, duly approved.
Every offer must be accompanied by written
guarantee (tbe 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 suretes to
furnish the articles proposed agreeably to the
terms specified in the contract. The law of the
10th August, 1916, forbids the consideration of all
proposals not accompanied Dy euCn guarantee.
Those only whose offers may be accepted will
be 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
shall be sent for execution.
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 o6er)
We, the undersigned, residents of in the
State OF hereby guarantee, in case the fore
going bid of be accepted, that he Tor thew
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 TO
furnish the articles proposed, in conformity with
the terms of the advertisement under which it lie
made. s.Et CD
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hereby certify that, to the best of nv know
ledge and belief, the above named guarantors are
good and sufficient.
G. H., Navy Agent.
Form of endorsement on the envelope Transmitting The
offer.
"Proposals for TIMBER at the Navy Yard
(name the yard.)
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Chief of Bureau of Ordnance and photography,
Washington, D. C..
July 26-2aw4w
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