The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-04-13
NAVY sUPPLIEs-Is5s-'5e.
Navy DrpARrnKSr.

Ten days Houce, except Ior biscuit, 1or which
five days notice shall be given for every TWEEN
ty thousand pounds required) at the United
States navy yards at Charlestown, Hassachu-
sets; Brooklyn, New York; and Gosport, Vir-
| ginia, such quantities ONLY of the following
articles as may be required or ordered from
the contractors by the chief of this bureau, or
by the respective commanding officers of the
said Havy-yards, during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1889, viz:
Biscuit, flour, rice, dried apples, pickles, su-
gar. tea, coffee, beans, molassss, vinegar, and
whiskeY.
The biscuit shall be made wholly from
sweet superfne -four, of the manufacture ofthe
year 1857 or 1858, but shall in all cases be
manufactured from flour made of the crop i'm
mediately preceding the dates of the requisi-
tions for the same; and shall be fully equal in
quality, and conform in size and shape, to the
samples which are deposited in the said navy
yards; shall be properly baked, thoroughly
kiln-dried, well packed, and delivered free of
charge to the United States, in good, sound,
well-dried, bright -four barrels, as above de-
scribed, with the heads well secured; or in
air and water-tight whiskey or spirit barrels,
at the option of the bureau.
The flour shall be superfne, and ofthe man.
u%faeture of wheat grown in the year 1857 or
1858; but shall in all cases be manufactured
from wheat of the crop Immediately preceding
the dates of the requisition for the same; shall
be perfectly sweet, and in all respects of the
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shipping order, free of all charge to the United
States, in the best new, well-seasoned, sound,
bright barrels, or half barrels, as the case may
be-the slaves and headings to be of red oak
of the best quality, strong and well hooped,
with lining hoops around each head, and equal
in qualify to sample barrel at said navy-yards:
two half barrels to be considered as o barrel,
and not more than one-sixth the required
quantity to be in half barrels.
The rice shall be of the very best quality,
md of the crOO immediately nreaadiDp +ba
dates of the acquisitions for the same.
Thedried apples shall be of the best quality,
and shall be prepared by sUN-DRYENG only, and
shall be of the crop of the autumn Immediate
ly preceding the dates of the acquisitions for
the same.
The pickles shall be put up in iron-bound
casks, and each cask shall contain one gallon
of onions, one gallon of peppers, and eight
gallons of medium ~cucumbers, fifty to the gal
Ion, and the vegetables in each shall weigh
ffty-seven pounds, and they only be paid for;
and each cask shall then be filled with white
wine vinegar of ut least 40 degrees of strength,
and equal to French vinegar; the casks, veg
etables, and vinegar shall conform and be
equal in all respects to the samples deposited
at the above named n~avy-yards, and the con-
tractors shall warrant and guaranty that they
will keep good and sound for at least two
years.
The iron hoops on the barrels containing
whiskey, molasses. vinegar, and pickles to be
well painted with red lead.
The sugar shall be according to samples at
the said navy yards, and be dry and fit for
packing.
The tea shall be of good quality young n.y.
son, equal to the samples at said n~avy-yards,
and be delivered in half and quarter chests
only.
The coffee shall be equal to the best Cuba,
according to sample.
The beans shall be of the verv best quality
white beans, and shall be of the crop imme-
diately preceding the dates of the requisition
for the same, 81 pounds to be taken as one
bushel.
The molasses shall be fully equal to the
very best quality of New Orleans molasses,
and shall be delivered in well-seasoned red
oak barrels, with white-pine heads not less
thai Ia inch thick; the slaves not less than
81 inch thick; the barrels to be three-quarters
hoped, and, in addition, to have four iron
hoops, one on each bilge ~ inch in width and
1-16th inch thick, and one on each chime IL
inch-in width and l-16th inch thick, and shall
be thoroughly coopered and placed in the best
shipping condition.
The vinegar shall be of the first quality,
equal to the standard of the United States
Pharmacoreia, and shall contain no other
that acetio acid; and shall be delivered in bar
rels similar in all respects to those required
for molasses, with the exception that WHITE
OAK slaves and heads shall be substituted for
red-oak slaves and white pine heads, and
shall be thoroughly coopered and placed in
the best shipping order.
The whiskey shall be made wholly from
grain, sound and merchantable, aud be full
first pfocf according to the United States Gus
tom-house standard, and shall be double rec
titled. 1t shall be delivered in gond, new,
sound, bright, three quarters hooped,w II sea
soned white-oak barrels, with white-oak heads,
the heads to be made Of three-piece heading,
and well painted the slaves not to be less
than "a inch thick and the heads not less thsn
q inch thick; and each barrel shall be coop
cred, in addition, with one three-penny iron
hoop on each bilge IL inch in width. and
1-I6th inch thick. and one three-penny hoop
on each chime, IL inch in width, and l. 10th
inch thick, as per diagram. The whole to be
put in good shipping order, free of charge to
the United States.
All the foregoing described articles, embra-
cling casks, barrels, half barrels, and boxes,
shall be subject to such inspection as the chief
of this bureau may direct. the inspecting Off
Ger to be appointed by the Navy Department.
All inspections to be at the place of delivery.
Biscuit may, however, be inspected at the
| place o fmanufacture, but will in all cases be
subject to a final inspection at the place of de-
livery before bills are signed therefor.
The prices of all the foregoing articles TO be
the same throughout the year, and bidders
may offer Tor one or more articles.
Allthe casks, barrels, and half barrels, bux-
es or packages, shall be marked with their
| contents and the contractors name. All the
barrels and half barrels of -four, bread, and
pickles she'll have, in addition to the above,
tho year when manufactured or put up marked
upon them.
The samples referred to in this advertise.
ment are those selected for the ensuing fiscal
year, n HAVE NO REFERENCE TO SUCH AS HAVE
| BEEN PREVIOUSLY EXHIBITED.
The quantity of these articles which will
be required cannot be precisely stated. They
| will probably be about