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To be offered for.

The quantities of any or all may be increased or
diminished as the service may hereafter require.
The contracts will therefore be made not for specific
quantities, but for such quantities as the service
may require to be delivered at those nayy-yards
spectively.
Contractors not residing at the places where de-
lyeres are required must establish agencies at such
places that no delay may arisn in furnishing what
may be required; and when a contractor fails
promptly to comply with arequistion, the Chief of
the bureau OF Provisions and Clothing shall be
thorized 10 direct purchases to be made t. supply
deficiency, under the penalty to be expressed in the
contract; the record of a requision. or a duplicate
copy thereof at the Bureau of Provisions and Cloth
or at either of the navy-yards aforesaid shall he
evidence that SUI requisiton has been made and
received. 1893
Separate offers must be made for each article lex
cept soap) at each Of the aforesaid navy yards; end
In case more than one article is contained in the
offer, the Chief Of the Bureau will have the right TO
accept or more Of the articles contained in such
offer, and reject the remainder; and bidders whose
proposals are accepted land none others will be
forthwith notified, and early practicable con-
tract Will be transmitted to them for execution:
which contract must be returned to the Bureau
within five days. exclusive of the time required for
the regular Transmission of the mail
Two or more approved sureties, in a sum equal t.
the estimated amount Of the respective contract
Will be required and ten per centum in addition
Will be withheld from the amount of all payments
on account thereof as collateral security in addition,
to secure its performance, and not in any event to
be paid until il is in all respects complied with;
ninety 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
presented to him.
D Blank forms of proposals may be obtained on ap
pication to the Navy Agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Boston, New York, Philadelphia. Bal
tmore, Washington, Norfolk, Pensacola, and at this
bureau.
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 1885, and his will be made and accepted in
conformity with this understanding.
Every offer made must be accompanied (ss d.
rected in the act of Congress making appropriations
FOR the naval service for 1916 AZ, approved 10th
August, lS46) by written guarantee, signed by one
or more responsible persons to the effect that he or
they undertake the bidder bidders will If his or
their bid be accepted, enter into obligation with
In fve days, with good and sufficient sureties to
furnish the supplies proposed The bureau will not
De obligated to consider any proposal unless accom-
panied by the guarantee required by law; the COM
potency OF the guarantee to be certified by the navy
agent, district attorney officer of the general
government known to the bureau.
The attention of bidders is called to the samples
and description Of articles required. ss in the in
VIII be msde between the articles offered and the
sample and contract receiving none that fall be-
low them; and their attention is also particularly
directed to the annexed joint resolution in addition
TO the act Of the 10th August, 1916.
Frtrdct fro" the act Of Congress approved August
"SEc. 6. Asd be Il further emacted, That from and
after the passage Of this act every proposal for naval
supplies invited by the Secretary of the Navy under
the proyisO to the general appropriat on bill for
the navy, approved March third, eight en- hundred
and forty three, shall be accompanied by written
guarantee, signed by one or more responsible per.