Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1854-05-31
PROPOSALS FOR TIMBER.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Construction, &c,
Mar &; IsGx,

May s; 1854.
SEALED PROPOSALS, ENDORSED "PROP0;
ing ahiteoaE selio. pine plank stocks at
and 5000 cubic feet yellow pine
Boston, 1000 cubic feet white oak.
New York coo cubic feet white oak and 10000 cubic feet
Phladep pha $4,000 cubic feet white oak 10000 cubic
feet yellow pine. -.
Washington $4,000 cubic feet white oak and 10000 cubd
feet yellow pine:
The offers be for each yard and each description of
The wheoaI blank to have grown within so es
of the salt water ofwhich satisfactory evidence must
Onehaf the humber Of logs must be 4s feet in length hone
of the remaining half TO be less than 50 feet in and
the whole quantity to average As cet The small end OF
half to be under IL square clear Of wane and
the remainder not less than IA inches To be lined taper
ing in conformity 10 the growth Of tree with
long fair curve; sudden crooks will be allowed; no
exceeding onefourth Of the width Of the siie NJ
squared the sap wood be excluded in the
length and NO piece be less than ss feet 10 5e lined with
the natural taper of but sudden crook must bs
allowed The small ends be less than As efIhe butt
the small ends of half TO lie not less tan IL inches
square, clear Of ard The remaining not less than
iches the sap wood exceed the face from each
corner and to be excluded in the In both
the oak and pine reductions be made axe marks and
In se rs Meoe % oe .e npe and free
from defects To be delivered or before the first Of No
vember the respective nsyyafds above named and
Approved sureties the estimated amount Of each
contract viii be required and twenty centum in oddi
tion vii be withheld from the amount Of each
collateral security for its faithful perform Eighty per
cent ofeach BILL approved in trpcaie by the respective
commandments Of said yards will be by the navy
agent at the point Of delivery within thirty dsys after pre-
sentation. 49,
Every offer be accompanied by written guarantee
whose reponsib y must be certified by be navy ageh or
responsible person known TO the bureaus that the
offer be accepted the bidder WILL within len days afer The
receipt the post ece desgnated exeeute
the same with good and sufficient suretes 10 tbe
articles proposed agreeaby fo the bed the
contract and in the absence cf such guaranee no bid win
be considered
Bidders are particularly requested to endorse thcf offers
Timber deliverable In October that they may be dsfh
gushabe from other business letters of the Office and
vent their being prematurely opened.
Persons offering are requested 10 desgnae the post Office
navy agent to whom the contractors to be sent for
eufon
No paper sii be paid fot publishing this advertisement
not specially authorized by the bureau.
FORM OF OFFER
Insert the date 1885,
si. iot we) agree to furnish and deliver 1t ihs nary.
Of the Bureaa Of Construetion &c. Of Nay ~ ths
~he-oak yellowpine plank stocks for bot ss te e
may bs) therein described aate 3
FORM Or GUARANTEE
.We ths unds.aened. rssidsots 9 ~ the etese
e. gs.r'asy 's IN e - s;,s;. ,ss fSs.sss M ,s!
a ess.ss iIe sa..e With aosd "a sucint sulsass
frpish tbe timber smbrseed in ssd bid conformity wa
the of ths advertisements under which il wss ueAe
&C. t5:
hereby certify tss.. TO the bea Of my tbOwi.dgs :od
BELIEF the above named suarsnsors good spd susst
May 3; 1854 Ises-v4~