The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-08
To be offered for:

The quantities of any or all may be increased or
diminished, as the service may hereafter require.
The contracts sill therefore be made not for spe.
CHIC quantities, but for such quantities the
vice may require to be delivered at those navy yards
respectively.
Contractors not residing at the places where de-
iveries are required must establish agencies at
such places, that no delay may arise in furnishing
what may be required; and when contractor fails
promptly to comply with requisition, 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 record Of requistion,
or duplicate copy thereof at the Bureau Of Pro
visions and Clothing at either of the navy Yards
aforesaid, shall be evidence that such requisiion
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 contained in
the offer, the Chief of the Bureau will have the
right to accept one moro OF the articles contained
IN such offer, and reject the remainder; and bid
ders whose proposals are accepted (and none
others) will be forthwith notified, and as early as
practicable contract will be transmitted to them
for execution; which contract must be returned to
the Bureau within five days, exclusive of the time
required for the regular Transmission Of the mail.
Two or more approved sureties, In q sum equal
to the estimated amount of the respective con-
tracts, will be required, and ten per centum in ad-
dition will be withheld from the amount of all
payments on account thereof collateral security,
in addition, to secure its performance and not in
any event to be paid until it 10 in all respects COM
piled with; ninety per centum of the amount of
all deliveries made will be paid by the Navy Agent
within thirty days after bills duly authenticated
shall have been presented to him.
Blank forms of proposals may be obtained on ap
plication TO the Navy Agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk, Pensacola, and
at this Bureau. lszzs-- :, tt-
T. A record. or duplicate of the letter Informing
bidder of the acceptance of his proposal, will be
deemed notification thereof, within the meaning
of the act of 1916, and his bid will be made and
accepted in conformity With this understanding
Every offer made must be accompanied as direct
ed in the act of Congress making appropriations for
the naval service for lS46-l7, approved 10th Au-
gust, lS46) by written guarantee, signed by
one more responsible persons, to the effect
that be or they undertake that the bidder or
bidders will, if his or their bid be accepted, en-
ter into obligation within five days, with good
and Sufficient sureties, to furnish the supplies
proposed. 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 Attorney, or some officer Of tho General
Government known to the Bureau. ,t-...s ...-si
Extract from the act Of Coysress, approved August
',Src. 6. And be Il further enacted, That from
ana after the passage this act every proposal for
naval supplies invited by the Secretary Of the
Navy, under the proyiso to the general appropria-
uon Dill Tor the navy, approved March third,
eighteen hundred and forty -thFee. shai be ACCOM-
panied by written guarantee, signed BY one OF