Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-16
Proposals FOR OIL for lighthouse

proposals Tor OH for Light.Houses.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE LlGHr-HoUsE BOARD,
February l4th, 1854.
OEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this Of
~ fee until o'clock p m, ON Monday. the q til
of February iDst for supplying the light house es-
ablishment with the following quantities of OIL TO
be delivered at the respective points named on the
LAKES, viz:
$500 (six thousand five hundred) gallons best win
ter strained or press ed sperm oil. and
$500 (ix thousand five hundred gallons best spring
strained or pressed sperm oil. to be delivered
at Buffalo, New York, to the proper officer
authorized to receive it, on the 18th day o;
April. 1851, or Immediately after the open
ing Of the Erie canal.
l,Go0 sixteen hundrcd gallons best winter strained
or pressed sperm oil, aud
LOCO (sxteen huLdrcd gallons best spring strsined
sperm OIL to be deiiy er,d to the collector
-. and superintendent Of lights at Oswego, n
T., on the 18th day Of April, 1854 OF imme-
diately after the opening of the Erie canal,
and
500 tive hundred gallons best winterstrained or
pressed sperm oil, snd
SEQ (fiTe hundred) gallons best spring-strained OF
pressed sperm oil, to he delivered to the col
lector and superintendent of lights at Platts
burg, New York, on the 18th day of April
1854, or Immediately after the opsning o.
the Erie Canal.
The oil to be delivered at the above mentioned
places in the several quantities specified, respective
~, III siuai lrouuounu CASKS, In prime Order fret
from leakage, containing from thirty TO fifty gallons
each, and free from all expense to the United States
all the costs for transportation damage, and leakage
being at the charges AID risk of the contractor
contractors and all tests and inspection 20 be made
prior to the transportation Of the oil from the con
tractors warehouse, or other place of deposit.
All the oil proposed for under this adver lis emcnt
ts be subjected to the usual tests of specific gravt
temperature at whch it will remain limpid, by bur
ming and such other means may be thought proper
by the person or persons to whom that duty may
be assigned by the Lighthouse Board, before 1t VIII
be accepted The w!ntec-strained oil to remain limp
Id at a temperature of 80 degrees Of Farenheit Of
lower, and the spriugstrainci oil at temperatur,
of 40 degrees Of Fahrenheit or lower.
bond with security to the satisfaction of the de
par,ment in penalty equal to one-bfth the amount
of the bid which shall be accepted under toe forego
ing proposals, win be required to be executed b,
the successful bidder within five days sitter the con
tract prepared in accordance with such bid shall
have been received by him for signature, condition
ed for the faithful Performance of such conterct
Each bid must be accompanied by a written guar
antee, signed by the bidd r an competent surety
that in the event of the acceptance of such bid IN
bond above required will be executed wi hin tn
time above specified and Of the legal effect above in
dictated. .t' - = .
The board, under the authority of the departmept
reserves the right to reject any bid though il be tn
lowest, from other considerations than It's amount
All bids must be sealed, and endorsed "Proposal
nor Ol LOT Light Honses" and then placed m anoth
er envelope, and directed to the sscret,ry of tn
Lagns House Board, Washington, d. O.
~ order Of the Light House Board: - ?
h -. THORNTON A. JENKINS.
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