The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-09
The quantity of these articles which will
required cannot be precisely stated They wi
probably be about

The quantities of any or all may be increased o,
diminished, rs the service may hereafter require
The contracts ill therefore be made, not for spe-
CHIC quantities, but for such quantities the
vice may require to be delivered at those navy
respectively.
Contractors not residing at the places where de-
llyeries are required must establish agencies al
such places, that no delay may arise in furnishing
what may be required; and when contractor fails
promptly to comply with requisi,ion, the Chief
of the Bureau Of Provisions and Clothing shall be
authorized to direct purchases to be made to sup
ply the deficiency, under the penalty to be ex.
pressed in the contract; the vecord of requistion
or duplicate copy thereof at the Bureau Of Pro
visions and Clothing, or at either OF the navy yards
aforesaid, shall be violence that such requiaiton
has been made and received.
Separate offers must be made for each article
Except soap) at each of the aforesaid navy yards
and in case more than one article ia centained in
the offer, the Chief OF the Bureau will have the
right to accept one or more of the articles
In such offer, and reject the remainder; and bid
ders whose proposals. accepted land none
others) wall be forthwith notified, and early az
practicable a contract will be trausmitted to them
tor execution; which contract must be returned IL
the Bureau within five days, exclusive of the time
required for the regular transmission OF the mail
Two or more approved sureties. in a suiD equal
to the estimated amount of the respective con
tracts gill be required, and ten per centum in ad.
dition will be withheld from the amount of all
payments on account thereof az collateral security
in addition, TO secure it's performapce and not in
any event 10 De paid until 1t 10 in all respects COM
Piled with; ninety per centum Of the amount 'o
all deliveries made will be paid by the Navy Agent
within thirty days after bills duly authenticated
shall have been presented to him. issrsf, IS .
Blank forms Of proposals may be obtained on ap
plicaton TO the Navy Agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Boston, New York, Philadelphia
Baltimore, Warrington, Norfolk, Pensacola, and
at this Bureau.
4 record, or duplicate of the letter Informing a
bidder Of the acceptance Of bic proposal, will be
deemed q notification thereof, Within the nseaninQ
of the act Of 1886. and bis bid will be made and
accepted in conformity with this understa nding
Every offer made must be accompa MED (as direct
cd in the act Qf Congress making appropriatons for
the naval servica Tor lS46-44, approved 10Th An.
gust, lS46) by written guarantee, signed by
one or more seaponsibIs- persons, TO The effect
that, he. or they undertake that the bidder or
bidders will, II his or their bid be accepted, en-
ter into an obligation within five days, with good
and sufficient sureties. to furnish the supplies
proposed. q The Bureau will not be obligated to
consider any proposal unless accompanied by the
guarantee required by law; the competency OF
the guarantee to be certified by the Navy Agent,
District Aetprney, or some officer OF the General
Cosssnmsat kRosa IN the Bureau. Mt
Extract from Ae Get q co.s,ss., as,rso.d .4ugH.t
! $50 6. dad b. Il f,wtksr e~ected, That from
ana eaT We passage oflhis act, svery prLposa for
naval supplies invited by THE Becrstary Of the
NAVY. nnder the pfo~iso to the generalappropria-
teool OIL Tor the navy. approved March third,
eighteen hundred aud forty three, shall be accom-
panied oy written guarantee, signed BY one or