The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-22
PROPOSALS FOR TANK IRON.

NAVY DEPARTMENT,
| BUREAU CONSTRUCTIONS, EoUIs'T, AND REPAIRS,
| May Is, 1853
- EALED PROPOSALS endorsed proposals for
| - Tank Irony will be received at this Bureau
TO 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 ,cater- tanks for sloops # ,oar, viz
216,OOO pounds of plate iron, one-quarter OF an
inch thick
5000 pounds of boiler rives, one inch and
| fve.eighths long from inside of head,
and FIVE eightbs diameter
1000 pounds of boiler riveG two and one
quarter inches lon g from inside of head,
and ve-eighths diameter
| /, 800 pounds of five eighhs 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 beet char
coal blooms, that it will stand twoinch flange
all round the edge and kept free from blisters. 1t
| must be cut correctly to size, and kept straight
| and level from the shears, and must bear to turn
| the fianges 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
said navy yard to the contractor.
The person whose offer may be accepted will be
required to enter into contract, which, besides
| other conditions, will expressly provide that, in
| 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 liquidated damages, cum
| of money equal 10 twice the contract price, which
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| to time as they accrue.
The cost of each item must be distinctly carried
| out, and the aggregate amount OF the whole cor
| rectly footed up.
of the contract will be required in the manner set
| forth in that instrument, and ten per centum in
addition will be withheld from the amount OF each
payment as collateral security for its faithful per-
torrance. Ninety per Centum OF each bill, ap-
proved in triplicate 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 rece pit
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 this advertisement or which
may be embodied in the contract. The law Of
10th August, 1876, forbids the consideration of all
proposals not accompanied by such guarantee.
Bidders particularly cautioned to endorse
their offers as above required, that they may be
disng uished from other business letters, in order
to prevent their being opened before the day ap-
pointed.
All offers not made in strict conformity with
THE 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 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.
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