The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-25
PROPOSALS FOR TANK IRON.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,

NAVY DEPARTMENT.,
May Is, 1853
SEALED PROPOSALS endorsed proposals fol
! ~ Tank irony will be received a this Bureau
TOD O'Clock p. m, of the 9th day of June next, fol-
| furnishing and delivering at the navy yard al
| Washington. District of Columbia, free of expense
and rick to the United States, the following guam
titles OF the beet American iron, required to make
'iI sets Of icater-tanks for sloops Of ,oar, viz:
Go'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 eightbs diameter
2,oOU pounds OF boiler rives, two and one
quarter inches long from inside of head
and five eighths diameter
500 pounds of five eghths 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 beat char
coal blooms, that it will stand two. inch hange
all round the edge, and kept free from bisters. II
must be cut correctly to size, and kept straight
| and level from the shears and must bear to turn
| the fanges iengthwise without cracking. Such as
break or crack must be replaced by and at the cos,
| 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 10 enter into contract, which, besides
| other conditions, will expressly provide that, in
/ case ne snail IN any respect lal1 10 perform the
! contract, the same may be, al 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 ahalI 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 suretes will forfeit and pay
to the United States, as liquidated damages, a sum
of money equal TO twice the contract price, which
| HQuldated damn 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 suretes 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 collateral security for its faithful per-
| torrance. Ninety per centun 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 Nhe responsibility of the guarantor or
guaranors 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
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 sureies,
to furnish the articles proposed egreeably to the
terms specified in this advertisement, which
may be embodied in the contract. The law of
10th August, 1885, forbids the consideration of all
proposals not accompanied by such guarantee.
Bidders particularly cautioned to endorse
their offers above required, that they may be
nguished from other business letters, in order
to prevent their being opened before the day up,
pointed.
All offers not made in strict conformity with
this advertisement in every particular will be con
sidcred 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 adj
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