The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-03
PROPOSALS for BUILDING and EQUIP
PING FIVE LIGHT VESSELS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE LIGHTHOUSE BoAnp,

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OFFICE LIGHTHOUSE BoAnp,
WARRINGTON, April 80, 1883.
SEPARATE SEALED PROPOSALS will be re-.
~ ceived at this Office until 10 M on Tuesday,
me Slsi day OF May 1853, for building and equip
ping light vessel, to be completed within four
months from the date of the acceptance of the bid,
to be delivered to the properly authorized agent
OF the department at New York; for ono to be de-
Charleston, South Carolina, of the following d.
mansions:
Length from aft side of stern post to the fore
side of main stem SO feet; breadth of beam moulded
70 feet b inches; depth of hold from TOD of
Timber stake to top of beam, ii feet, tonnage
about 232.
Until the same time, for one for Kill Pond Bar.
and one for Succonesset Shoal, Vineyard Sound.
Massachusetts,) to be delivered at such points or
places as may be designated by the Lighthouse
Board, OF the following dimensions:
Length between perpendicular. 81 feet; breadth
of beam moulded, 81 feet 6 inches; depth of hold
from top of Timber srake to top of beam, 10 feet
inches; tonnage about $50.
The white oak to be of the best seacoast timber .
and the yellow pine of the finest grain untaDped
southern timber.
If none of the bids are satisfactory to the Board
it will be at liberty to decline or accent of them
and no contract will be entered into until it shall
have been submitted to, and approved BY the Sec
rotary of the Treasury.
No proposal will be considered unless received
from persons engaged in chip building, and each
offer must be accompanied by the signatures of
two responsible persons as sureties for the faithful
fufment of the contract.
Each vessel must be distinctly named, with the
sum for which the bidder purposes to build and
equip her, according to the drawings and specif-
cations, and copy of the printed specifca tons
must be enclosed by each bidder, as evidence that
there is no mistake to the object of his proposal
No bid will be considered that does not conform
to the requirements of this advertisement,
A drawing Of the vessel contracted for will be
furnished to the contractor. to which he will be
required to adhere strictly; to this end the mould
loft lines will be taken off, and the mould examined
by the experimenting officer ho will be ASST ga ed
to the duty of this Board, with the approval Of the
Secretary OF the Treasury, and who will be required
to see that the work executed and the materials
used are in strict conformity to the terms and spe-
chcations of the contract and who must certify to
the same in writing before the vessel will be re-
ceived and payments authorized to be made
The printed specifications by which the vessels
are to be constructed, and which will with the
drawings and plans, be attached to and form a
part OF the contracts, be had on application to
the Lighthouse Board, or to the lighthouse inspec-
tor at Boston, New York, Wilmington, Delaware,
or Norfolk, Virginia, or at the custom house, Phil
adelphia, Baltimore, New Bedford, or Edgartown.
Massachusetts,; and the plans and drawings NAV
be seen and examined by calling at the Office Of
the lighthouse inspector at Boston, New York, or
Wilmington, Delaware; at the custom-house at
Philadelphia or Baltimore and at the Office OF tho
Lighthouse Board, Washington city
Any person submitting proposals may be- pres.
ent and witness tn opening of the bids at the
| and place herenbefore specified
All proposals must be sealed and endorsed 60 Pm
posais for Building Light Vessss,'' and then en-.
closed in another envelope, and addressed to the
Secretary Of the Lighthouse Board, Treasury De-
partment, Washing o..
BY order OF the Lighthouse Board:
THORNTON A. JENKINS, Secretary.
May 3-3tawtMay3l.