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To be offered for.

The quantities of any or all may be increased OR
diminished as the sarvice may hereafter require
The contracts will therefore be made not for Specific
quantities, but for such quantities the sery ice
may require to be delivered those navy-yards r..
spectivey.
Contractors not RESTING at the plaaes where lie
iveres required must establish agencies at such
places that no delay may arisa in furnishing what
may be required; and when contractor fails
promptly to comply with arequisitien, the CHIEF Of
the Bureau OF Provisions and Clothing shall be an,
thorized to direct purchases to be made u SUNNY
deficiency, under the penalty to be expire in the
contract: the record of q requiSirn, or a ruicste
copy thereof at the Bureau OF Provisions and Cloth
or at either OF the navy-yards aforesaid, shall h..
evidence that SUI requisition has been made anu
received.
Separate offers must be made for each article lex
cept soap) at each OF the at aid navyyards; and
in case more than one article is contained i'm the
Offer the Chief of the Bureau will have the right T.
accept one or more of the articles contained in such
offer, and reject the remainder; and bidders whose
proposals are accepted (and none others will b.
forthwith notified, and early practicable con
tract will be transmitted to them for execution:
which contract must be returned to the Bureau
wi hin five days, exclusive of the time required for
the regular transmission of the mail.
Two or more approved sur eties I'm 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 collateral security, in addition
to secure its performance, and not in any event to
be paid until it 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
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record, or duplicate of the letter informing Q
bidder Of the acceptance of his proposal, will be
deemed notification thereof within the meaning oi
the act of iS46 and his will be made and accepted in
conformity with this understanding.
Every offer made must b. accompanied (as d.
recte in the act Of Copgress making appropriations
for the naval service for 1916 al, approved 10th
August 1s48) by written guaranf signed by one
or NOR responsible persons, to the effect that hser
they undertake the bidder bidders will if his or
their bid be accepted, enter into obligation with
in five days with good and sufficient eureties to
furnish the supplies proposed. The bureau will not
be 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.
Blank forms of proposals may be obtained on ap
plcation to the Navy Agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire; Boston, New York, Philadelphia. Bal
timore, Washington, Norfolk, Pensacola and at this
bureau.
The attention of bidders is called to the samples
and description Of articles required as in the ia
spection for reception, just but rigid compar on
will be made between the articles offered and tn.
sample and contract receiving none that tall be-
iov them; and their attention is also particularly
directed to the annexed joint resolution in addition
to the act of the 10th August, 1916.
Extract from the act Of Congress approved august
aa.s......-T 10. 1874 -
CSC. 6. And be IL further enacted, That from and
after the passage Of this act every proposal for
supplies invited by the Secretary of the Navy
the proviso to the general appropriation bill fol
the navy, approved March third, eighteen hundred