Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-04-01

The quantities Of any or all may be increased
or diminished as the service may hereafter
quire The contracts Will therefore be made, not
for specific quantities, but for such quantities as
the service may require to be delivered at those
navy yards respectively.
Contractors not residing at tie places where de-
liveries are required, must establish agencies at
such places, that no delay may arise In furnishing
what may be required; and when contractor
falls promptly to comply with requisition, the
Chief of the Bureau Of Provisions and Clothing
shall be authorized to direct purchases to be made
to supply the deficiency, under the penalty to be
expressed in the contract; the record Of requisi-
ton, or duplicate copy thereof, at the Bureau Of
Provisions and othing, at either Of the navy
wards aforesaid, shall be evidence that such re-
QUESTION has been made and received
Separate offers must he made for each article at
each Of the aforesaid navy-yards; and in case
more than one article Is contained in the efer, the
Chief Of the Bureau will have the right to accept
one or more Of the articles contained In such offer
and reject the remainder and bidders whose pro-
Posals are accepted land none others will be
forthwith notified, and as early as practicable a
contract will be transmitted to them for execu-
tion which contract must be returned to the bu-
reau within ten days, exclusive Of the time re-
CURED Tor the regular transmission Of the mail
Two or more approved sureties, in a sum equal
| to the estimated amount CT the respective con-
| tracts will be required and twenty 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 untilit is in all respects
piled with; eighty per centum Of the amount Of
all deliveries will be paid by the navy agent with
In thirty days after bills duly authenticated shall
have been presented to him.
Blank forms Of prop, sa,s may be obtained on
application to the navy agents at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire Boston. New York, Phtladelphia.
Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk, Pensacola, and
| at this bureau
record, or duplicate Ct the letters informing a
bidder Of tee acceptance of his proposal, will be
| deem ed notification thereof within the meaning
Of the act Of 1916, and his bid I'LL be madeaRd
| cepted in conformity with this understanding.
| Every offer made must be accompanied las d.
| rected In the act Of Congress making appropria-
lions for the naval service for AZ, approved
| 10th August, 1S46) by written guarantee signed
by one or more responsible persons, to the effect
that he or they undo rtake that the bidder or
win, If his their bid be accepted enter into an
obligation within Eve days. with good and sun
cient sureties, to furnish the supplies proposed
The bureau Will not be obligated 10 consider any
proposal unless accompanied by the guarantee
| required by law the competency Of the guaran-
tee to be certified by the navy agent district at
torney, or collector Of the customs
| The attention of bidders is called to the sam
PIES a~d description of articles required, as, in
| ths 'HsPsehoH for receptions, a just but rigid
eomparison wiH be made bstpsss me articles
oDsred and the samples and eoxtYact, recsiring
| none fhdf fdH beloto them; and their attention
- also pdrticxl yIy directed to the JOINT rssolx-
tton Of 9Th March, 1854, and to the act of the
] l0th August, 1876. mar 19-law4w