The republic., 1853-05-27
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PROPOSALS FOR TANK IRON.
Navy DrpAarMrxr,


NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BuarAu CoSsrRucrIoS, EauIP'r. AND REsAIas,
May Is. 1883
CEALED PROPOSALS (endorsed 'Proposals for
TO O'Clock p m, of the 9th day of June next Tor
iornishtng and delivering at the navy yero AZ
Washington. District of Columbia, free OF expense
and rick to the United States, the following guam
titles of the beat American iron, required to make
sir sets of ,coier-tanks for sloops n Uor, viz:
276 900 poonds of plate iron, one-qoarter of an
inch thick
1s 900 hounds of boiler rivets one inch and
five eighths long from inside Of head,
and five eighths diameter
900 pounds of boiler rivets, two and one.
quarter inches long from inside of head, ,
and ive-eghths diameter -.a 3tti 7
800 pounds of i've -ei ghths inch round iron
All the sai iron to be delivered on or before the
last of September next. Er
Tne plate iron must be made from the best char.
coal blooms, 30 that it will stand a two inch an
all round the edge, and kept tree from bi,ters II
must De cut Correctly to size. and kept strai ght
and levei from the shears, and must bear to tur n
the hanges lengthwise without cracking Such as
break or crack must be replaced by and at the cost
Of the contractor.
All to be satisfactory to, and be approved by, the
connandant OF said navy yard.
Schedules of the iron will be furnished from the
said navy yard to the contractor
ine person whose offer may be accepted will be
required to enter into contract, which, besides
other conditions, will expressly provide that, in
case ne 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 tc
recover Tor defaults which may have occurred
with tne stipulation that if default shall be made
py the contractor IN delivering all or any of the
articles contracted for of the quality and at ths
time and place named, that then, and in that case
the contractor and his suretes will forfeit and pay
TO the United States, IA liquidated damages, a sun
of money equal to twice the contract price, which
hquidated damages may be recovered from tim,
to time as they accrue.
The cost of each item must be distinctly carried
out, and the aggregate amount of the whole cor
reclly footed up.
Approved sureties in t0 ice the estimated amount
ofthe contract will be required in the manner Sc
forth IN that instrument, and ten per centum IN
addition will be withheld from the amount oil each
payment collateral security for its faithful per-
f0rmance. Ninety per centum of each bill, sp
proved in triplcste by the commandant OF the
said navy yard, will be paid by the navy agent al
the point of delivery within thirty days after iti
presentation to him
Every offer must be accompanied by a written
guarantee (Ihs responsibility of the guarantor or
guaraniors to be certified to by navy agent or
other Official person, or by some ope known to the
bureau) that, if the offer be accepted, the bidder
bidders will, within ten days after the receipt
of the contract at the post office designated, exc
cute the same, with good and sufficient sureties
20 furnish the articles proposed agreeably to the
terms specified in this advertisement or which
may be embodied in the contract. The law o
10Th August, 1876, forbids the consideration of all
proposals not accompanied by such guarantee.
Bidders arc particularly cautioned to endorse
thefy offers az above required, that they may be
distns uished from other business letters in order
to prev ent 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 viii
be notified. and contract forwarded without delay
Persons Offering directed to designate the
post office through which they desire to be ad
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 its insertion.
May l9-law4w