The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-31
"snIALL STORES. lsss-54.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF PRovIsIoNs AND CIorp,Ne

| NAVY DEPARTMENT,
DSAhAu OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING,
l-,o,a.; March %, 1853.
| Tor Small Stores. !" will be received at this Ru.
| Ieau uh.I O'CLOCK p m on Thursday, the asth
Gay OF April next, for furnishing and delivering
States navy yards at harlestown, Massacbusetts
Brooklyn, New York; and Gosport, Virgins. such
quantities only of the following articles as NAV be
required or ordered from the contractor by the
chief Of this Bureau, or by the respective com
handing officers of the said navy yards during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1854, viz:
Brushes. shaving Looking glasses
Brushes, scrubbing *Mustard seed
Brushes, shoe Needles, sewing, assor'd
Brushes, clothes *Pepper, black
Buttons, navy, vest *Pepper, red
Buttons, navy, coat Razors, in single cases
Buttons, dead eye Razor strops
Backing, boxes of Riband, hat
6eeswax Soap, shaving, in cakes
Combs, coarse Silk, sewing, blue black
Combs, fine Scissors
Cotton, spools of Spoons
Grass, for hats Thread, black, white,
Jackknives and blue
mandkerchiels, cotton Tape, black and white
Handkerchiets, silk, fam Thmbles
*Mustard and pepper will be required at New
York oniyi and in the state.
All the articles must be of good quality equal to
the pest OF those generally used in the service and
conformabe to the samples (aH of ,plich hn,e lee,
recently selected and aeip) deposited at said navy
yards and in this bureau, and subject to such in
spectlon at the navy yard where delivered as the
cRaef OF this bureau may direct, and be in all re-
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-
livery. Every separate package in which one or
more dozen of the above articles are packed and
the boxes bales, or barrels in which the same NAV
ha doll hal hn elrol,,,
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 agent fails promptly
to comply with requisiton, the chief of the Blu
reau ofProvsions and Clothing shall be authorized
to direct purchases to be made to supply the def
cheney, under the penalty to be expressed in the
contract; the record of requistion or duplicate
copy thereof, at the Bureau of Provisions md
Clothing, or at either of the navy yards aforesaid,
shall be evidence that such requsition has been
made and received.
Two or more approved sureties, in a 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 ac-
count shereof as collateral security, in addition to
secure it's performance and not in any event to he
paid until it ia 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, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Norfolk, Pensacola, and at this bureau
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 Gas d.
rected in the act of Congress making appropria-
tons 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 their bid be accepted enter into
an obligation within five days, with good and suf-
fcient sureties, to furnish the supplies proposed
The bureau will not be obligated to consider any
proposal unless accompanied by the guarantee re-
quired by law; the competency of the guarantee
to be certified by the navy agent, district attorney,
some officer of the General Government known
to the bureau.
Extract from the act Of Congress approved Au-
ssSEc. 6. And be it 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 by written guarantee, signed by one
responsible persons, to the effect that he or
they undertake that the bidder bidders will, if
bis their bid be accepted, enter into an 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 accompanied by
such guarantee. If after the acceptance of pro-
posal, and notification thereof to the bidder or
bidders, he they shall fail to enter into an 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 some other
person persons for furnishing the said supplies,
and shall forthwith cause the difference between
the amount contained in the proposal go 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 or guarantors; and the same NAV be
Immediately recovered by the United States, for
the of the Navy Department., in an action of
debt against either or all of said persons"
Mar 30-law4w
MYER PHINEAS.