The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-19
PROPOSALS FOR TANK IRON,
NAVY DEpARrMENr

NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU CONSTRUCTION, EauIr'r, AND REPAIRS,
May Is, 1853
SEALED PROPOSALS (endorsed Proposals for
~ Tank lron") will be received al this Bureau
10 O'Clock M, of the 9th day of June next for
furnishing and delivering at the navy yard at
Washington, District of Columbia, free of expense
and risk To the United States, the following guam
titles OF the beat American iron, required to make
SIR sets Of iratsr-tanks for sloops IF ,sar, viz;
Ho'Voo pounds OF plate iron, one-quarter of an
inch thick
$1,000 pounds of boiler rivets, one inch and
hve-eghths long from inside of head,
and hive eighths diameter
2,OOo pounds OF boiler rivets, two and
quarter inches long from inside of head,
and hve-eighths diameter
500 pounds of five eighths inch round iron.
All the said iron TO be delivered before the
last of September next
The plate iron must be made from the best char
coal blooms, 80 that ii will stand a twoinch flange
all round the edge, and kept free from bhstcrs. 1t
must be cut correctly to size, and kept straight
and level from the shears, and must bear to turn
the hanges len gthwse without cracking. Such as
break or crack must be replaced by and at the cost
of the contractor.
All to be satisfactory to, and be approved by, the
command ant OF said navy yard.
Schedules of the iron will be furnished from the
said navy yard to the contractor
The person whose offer may be accepted will be
required to enter into contract, which, besides
other conditions, will expressly provide that, in
case he shall In any respect fail to perform the
contract, the same may be, at the option of the
United States, declared null and void, without
affecting the right Of the said United States to
recover for defaults which may have occurred;
with the stipulation that if default shall be made
by the contractor in delivering all or any of the
articles contracted for of the quality and at the
time and place named. that then, and in that case,
the contractor and his suretes will forfeit and pay
to the United States, as liquidated damages, sum
OF money equal TO twice the contract price, which
hquldated damages may be recovered from time
TO time as they accrue.
The cost of each item must be distinctly carried
out, and the aggregate amount of the whole cor
rectly footed up.
Approved sureties in twi ice the estimated amount
of the contract will be required in the manner set
| forth in that instrument, and ten per centum in
addition Will be withheld from the amount of each
payment as collateral security for its faithful per.
| torrance. Ninety per centum of each bill, ap
| proved in triplicae by the commandant of the
| said navy yard, will be paid by the navy agent at
the point OF delivery within thirty days after it's
| presentation to him.
Every offer must be accompanied by written
guarantee (the responsibility of the guarantor or
| guaraptors to be certified to by navy agent or
other omcial person, or by some one known to the
bureau) that, II 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 suretes,
to furnish the articles proposed, agreeably to the
terms specified in this advertisement or which
may be embodied in the contract The law of
10th August, 1886, forbids the consideration of all
| proposals not accompanied by such guarantee
Bidders are particularly cautioned to endorse
| their Offers as above required, that they may be
dstin gushed from other business letters in order
| to prevent their being opened before the day ap.
| pointed.
| All offers not made in strict conformity with
this ADVERTISED in every particular will be con.
| sidered rejected, at the option of the bureau.
| The person only whose offer may be accepted will
be notified. and contract forwarded without delay
Persons Offering directed to designate the
post office through which they desire to be ad-
dressed, and the navy agent to whom the contract
| shall be sent for execution.
All editors authorized to publish this advertise.
ment will be specially notified by this bureau.
| None others will be paid for It's insertion.
May l9-law4w
SUPERIOR sUGAR-CURED HAMS can be
- found at the No. ] Family Grocery, 7th street.
| third door below Lstham's Bank, such as
Stage and Shay's Hams
John Shay's DO
| j. H. Burrows do
Baltimore cured do plain
| ]. CLAYTON BRASHEARS.
May ls-solw