The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-16
PROPOSALS FOR TANK IRON.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,

NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU CONSTRUCTION, EaUIP'T. AND REPAIRs,
May Is, 1853.
SEALED 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 ,rater-tanks for sloops of ,par, viz:
276,OOO pounds of plate iron, one-quarter OF an
inch thick
$4,000 pounds of boiler rivets, one inch and
five eighths long from inside of head
and FIVE eighths diameter
1900 pounds of boiler rivets, two and one
quarter inches long from inside of head
and FIVE eighths diameter
800 pounds of FIVE eighths inch round iron.
All the said iron TO be delivered on before the
last of September next.
The plate iron must be made from the best char
coal blooms so that il will stand a 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 fanges lepgthwise 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 be 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 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, liquidated damages, a sum
of money equal TO twice the contract price, which
iquidated damages may be recovered from time
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.
Approved sureties in twice the estimated amount
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-
formance. Ninety per centum OF each bill, ap'
proved in triplcate 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 Qhe responsibility of the guarantor or
guarantors to be certified to by navy agent or
other Official person, by some one 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,
10 furnish the articles proposed agreeably to the
terms specified in THE advertisement, or which
may be embodied in the contract. The law of
10th August 1876, iorbids the consideration of all
proposals not accompanied by such guarantee.
Bidders are particularly cautioned to endorse
their offers above required, that they may be
disting ushed from other business letters in order
to prevent 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 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 desig nate 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 it's insertion.
May l9-law4w