The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-04-02
.ssMALL STORES" ls5a-54.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU or puouyeroCe .,1

Navy DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF Provisions AND CLoTHIHo.
March 81, 1858.
PROPOSALS, sealed and endorsed sProposaIs
| Il for Small Stores" will be received at this Blu
reau until 3 O'Clock p. IN. on Thursday the a8t h
day OF April next, for furnishing and delivering
/ ION receiving ten days. notice) at the United
States navy yards at Cha rlestown Massachusetts
Brooklyn. New York; and Gosport, Virginia. sue b
quantities only of the following articles may be
required or ordered from the contractor by the
chief Of this Bureau, by the respective com
manding officers of the said navy yards during
the fscal year ending June 80, 1854, viz:
Boxes, shaving, Looking glasses
Brushes, shaving *Mustard seed
Brushes, scrubbing Needles, sewing, assor'd
Brushes, shoe *Pepper, black
Brushes, clothes sPepper red
Buttons, navy, vest Razors, in single cases
Buttons, navy, coat Razor strops
Buttons, dead eve Rband hat
Backing, boxes of Soap, shaving, in cakes
Beeswax Silk sewing, blue black
Combs, coarse Scissors
Combs, fine Spoons
Cotton, spools of Thread, black, white,
Grass, for hats and blue
Jackkniyes Tape, black and white
Handkerchief, cotton Thmbes.
Handkerchief, silk, fan
cy colors
*Mustard and pepper will be required at New
York only, and in the raw state.
All the articles must be of good quality, equal to
the best OF those generally used in the service, and
comfortable to the samples (aH of tchich haze been
recently selected and netc) deposited at said navy
yards and in this bureau, and subject to such i'm
spection at the navy yard where delivered as the
chief OF this bureau may direct, and be in all
spects satisfactory to the inspecting officer, said
officer to be appointed by the Navy Department
All the articles to be delivered free of all incidental
expense to the Government in proper vessels or
packages, and the price of each and every article
must be the same at the respective places of de.
in vuh one
more dozen of the above articles are packed, and
the boxes, bales, or barrels in which the same may
be delivered shall be marked with their contents;
the name Of the contractor, and the month and
year when put up; and, when desired, in good,
substantial shipping order.
The contractor must establish agencies at such
stations other than his residence. that no delay
may arise in furnishing what may be required;
and when the contractor or agent fails promptly
to comply with requsition, the chief OF the Blu
reau of Provisions and Clothing shall be authorized
cheney, under the penalty to be expressed in the
contract; the record of requisition, or duplicate
copy thereof, at the Bureau Of Provisions and
Clothing, or at either of the navy yards aforesaid,
shall be evidence that such requisition has been
made and received.
Two more approved sureties, in q sum equal
to the estimated amount of the contract, will be
required, and ten per centum in addition will be
withheld from the amount of all payments ON
account thereof collateral security, 10 secure
its performance, and not in any event to be paid
until it is in all respects complied with; nine
ty 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 pre-
scented to him
Blank forms of proposals may be obtained on
application to the Navy Agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Boston, New York, Phladelphia, Bal
timore, Norfolk, Pensacola, and at this bureau.
record or duplicate of the letter informing a
bidder of the acceptance of his proposal will be
deemed notification thereof within the meaning
of he 1T of ia vii hp do nd
accepted in conformity with this understanding.
Every offer made must be accompanied Gas d.
rected in the act of Congress making appropria-
tions for the naval service for 1S46-47, approved
10th August, ls46) by written guarantee, signed
by one or more responsible persons to the effect
that he or they undertake that the bidder or bid
ders will. if his or their bid be accepted, enter into
obligation within five days, with good and suf-
icient sureties, to furnish the supplies proposed.
The bureau will not be obligated to consider any
proposal unless accompanied by the guarantee re-
CURED by law; the competency of the guarantee
to be certified by the navy agent, district attorney,
to the bureau.
Extract from the act of Congress approved Au.
gust 10, 1916.
ssSEc. 6. And be 1t further enacted That from
and after the passage of this act every proposal
for naval supplies invited by the Secretary Of the
Navy, under the proviso to the general appropria-
ton bill for the navy, approved March third, eigh
teen hundred and forty-three, shall be accompa-
MED Dy written guarantee, signed by one or
more responsible persons, to the effect that he
they undertake that the bidder bidders will, if
his or their bid be accepted, enter into obliga
ton, in such time as may be prescribed by the
Secretary of the Navy, with good and sufficient
sureties, to furnish the supplies proposed No pro-
posal shall be considered unless accompanie by
such guarantee. If after the acceptance of pro-
posal, and notification thereof to the bidder or
bidders he or they shall fail to enter into obi
cation within the time prescribed by the Secretary
Of the Navy, with good and sufficient sureties for
furnishing the supplies, then the Secretary of the
Navy shall proceed to contract with come other
person persons for furnishing the said supplies,
and shall forthwith cause the difference between
the amount contained in the proposal so guaran-
teed and the amount for which he may have con-
tracted for furnishing the said supplies for the
whole period of the proposal to be charged up
against said bidder or bidders, and his or their
guarantor guarantors; and the may be
Immediately recovered by the United States, for
the uee of the Navy Department. in action Of
debt against either or all of said persons
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