The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-16
PROPOSALS. FOa TIMER FOR TIM
| NAVY.

PROPOSALS. F0a r1MBER FOR THIN
NAVY.
NAVY DsPARrHnHT,
BuasAu or ORDHANcs AND HypaooIAPHr,
July ~. 1853.
cEALED PROPOSALS, snsorsed "Proposals for
three O'Clock .. M of the 22d of August next, for
furnishing and delivering, under contract, at each
OF the several navy yards at Chariestown, Mas.a-
chusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Gosport, Vir-
ginia, the following described timber, viz:
WHlrE OAx-F0r .azletre<s.
100 pieces length five feet eight inches; thickness,
ten inches; breadth, fourteen inches
100 pieces, length Eve feet four inches;
nine inches; breadth, twelve inches
rs pieces, length, i've feet three inches; thick
ness. eight and one-half inches; breadth,
fourteen inches
rs pieces length five feet; thickness, seven and
one hall inches; breadth, eleven inches
Fov Brseksts u
800 pieces, length six feet two inches; thickness
seven inches, breadth, sixteen inches
so pieces, length sx feet; thickness, seven
inches; breadth, twelve and one half inches
800 pieces. length five feet two inchcs thickness,
seven inches; breadth, twenty inches p
80 pieces, length five feet two inches; thickness,
seven inches; breadth, sixteen inches
SD pieces, length Ave feet eight inches; thick
ness, 81. and one-haif inches; breadth,
thirteen inches N e"
$50 pieces, length four feet eight inches; thick
ness, six and one half inches; breadth, six
teen inches
For Tfansoms, (each piece making tsoo transoms.)
so pieces, length four feet eight inches; thick
ness, eight and One-half inches; breadth,
twenty inches 38 a
Is pieces, length four feet eight inches; thick
ness, eight and half inches; breadth,
sixteen inches
80 pieces, length four feet two incbes thickness,
seven inches; breadth, fourteen inches
| (Being about ninety -one thousand eight hundred
and fifty two feet (board or inch measure) at each
yard.)
Five hundred white hickor handspikes, eli feet
three inches long, three and half inches square
at the butt, and two and half inches square at
| the small end.
| The above white oak timber must be of the best
quality, and have grown within sixty miles of sea
water, and taken from butt logs, clear OF knots,
rents, sap, and all other defects, and from the
wind.
The handspikes must be split from the best white
hickory butts, clear of centre or heart pith, and
dressed down to the prescribed dimensions
The timber for axletrees must be in single
lengths, and from butt cuts. The timber for
bracket pieces may be delivered to cut two
lengths, and for the transom pieces to cut four
lengths, or double those above given; but no other
combinations of lengths, nor any timber from top
pieces, will be received for any purpose.
In the dimensions of white oak timber. additions
have been made to the net dimensions 10 which il
any excess beyond the aggregate number of feet
herein stated for each yard. If any should be re-
ceived under prescribed dimensions, tho actual
contents only will be paid for.
None of the timber will be received unless it j,
entirely to the satisfaction of the respective com.
mandants of the yards at which it is delivered.
The deliveries may be made as early as suits the
convenience of the contractors, but the whole must
be delivered on or before the first day of July
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| Separate offers must be made for the supply a,
each Of the navy yards named, and for the white
oak, and for the hickory but the ofers must be fol
all Of the white oak and all of the hickory for eact
navy yard. The offer must be by the thousane
feet, board measure, for the white oak timber ane
by the piece for the hickory handspikes.
Persons whose offers may be accepted will b,
required to enter into contracts which, besides
other conditions, will expressly provide that, in
case they shall in any respect fall TO perform tn
contracts, the same may be, at the option of tn,
United States, declared null and void, without af
fecting the right of the said United States to re-
cover for defaults which may have occurred, will
the stipulation also that, if default shall be made
by the contractor in delivering all or any of thu
timber contracted for, of the quality, within the
times and at the places named. that then and in
that case the contractor and his sureies will for
| feit and pay to the United States, as liquidated
damages, sum of money equal to twice the con-
tract price, which liqudated damages may be re-
covered from time to time as they accrue.
All the aforesaid timber must be subject to in
spection and measurement, according to the
printed rules established for the inspection and
measurement of timber for the navy of the United
States" copies of which may be seen at either
navy yard or navy agents Office.
No rztension Of time for making delivsries ,OiH
be granted, and penalties for uflment ,oH in
all cases be rigidiy enforced. Bidders are therefore
requested not TO offer for more than Mep are sure
they can furnish ioiihin the time specified.
Approved sureties in twice the estimated amount
of each contract will be required in tn e manner
get forth in that instrument, and twenty per cen
tum will be withheld from the amount Of each
payment as collateral security for it's faithful per-
formance. Eighty per centnm of each BILL ap-
proved in trpiicate by the respective comman-
dants of said navy yards will be paid by the navy
agent at the point Of delivery. within thirty days
after its presentation to him, duly approved.
Every offer must be accompanied by written
guarantee (tbe responsibility of the guarantor or
guarantors TO be certified to by navy agent or
other official person, or 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 sureties to
furnish the articles proposed agreeaby to the
terms specified in tbs contract. The law of the
10th August, 1886, forbids the consideration Of all
proposals not accompanied by such guarantee
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