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g. EPARATE OPosALe, sealed and endorses
- .Proposnls for Navy Supplies" will be re-
ceivsd at this Bureau until 8 o'clock A. v. on
Wednesday. the 24th day Of July nsrt, for fu .
nishing and delivering ION receiving ten days
notice, except for biscuit for which i've days
notice shall be given for every twenty thousand
pounds rcquired) at the United States Navy
Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, such quanti-
ties only of the following articles as may be re.
quired or ordered from the contractors by the
chief of this bureau, or by the commanding Off
Ger of the said Navy Yard, during the fiscal year
ending Jnne 80, 1852, viz:
Biscuit, -four, rice, dried apples, pickles, su-
gar, tea, beans, molasses, vinegar, and whisky.
The biscuit shall be made wholly from sweet
superfne -four, OF the manufacture Of the year
1850 or 1851, but shall in all cases he manufsc.
tured from -four made of the crop Immediately
preceding the dates Of the acquisitions 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 Yard; shall be
properly baked, thoroughly kiln-dried we'll
packed and delivered free of charge to the United
States, in good, sound, well-dried, bright -four
barrels, with the heads we'll secur d.
The -four shall be equal TO the best Richmond
wheat grown in the year 1860 or 1861 but shall
In all cases be manufactured from pure, sound,
fresh ground wheat, Of the crop Immediately
preceding the dates of the requisition for the
same; shall be perfectly sweet, and in all respects
Of the best quality; and shall be delivered in
good shipping order, free OF all charge to the
United States, ia the best new, well seasoned,
sound, bright barrels, or hat-barres, 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
quality to sample barrel at the said Navy Yard !;
two half barrels to be considered as a barrel,
and not more than one-sixth of the required
quantity to be In half-bsrrels.
The rice shall be Of the very best quality, and
Of the crop Immediately preceding the dates of
the requisitions for the same
1he dried apples shall be of the best quality,
and shall be prepared by sun-dryins only, and Of
the crop Of the autumn Immediately preceding
the dates Of the acquisitions for the same and
shall be delivered in packages containing not
moro than three hundred pounds.
The pickles shall be put up In iron-bound
casks, the iron hoops TO be inch wide and Lie
inch thick, and each cask shall contain one gal
'on Of onions, one gallon tf peppers, and eight
gallons Of m dium cucumbers, fifty to the gallon,
and the vegetables in each shall weigh fifty
seven pounds, and they only be paid for; and
each cask shall then be filled with white wine
vinegar, Of at least ~ degrees of strength, and
equal 70 French vinegar; and the contractors
shall warrant and guaranty that they will keen
good and sound for at least two years.
The iron hoops on the barrels containing whs-
", molasses, vinegar, and pickles, 70 Be well
painted with red lead.
The sugar shall be dry and ct for packing
and equal in quality to the best Havana brown
The tea shall be Of good quality young hyson
and be delivered In half or quarter chsets on y
The beans shall be Of the very best quality
white beans and shall be of the crop immedi.
ately preceding the dates of the acquisitions 70,
the same, 81 pounds to be taken as one bushcl.
The molasses shall be fully equal to the very
best quality Of New Orleans molasses and shsl
be delivered In new, well-seasoned red oak bar.
rels. with white pine heads not less than Il inch
thick; the slaves not less than 4 inch thick the
barrels TO be three quarters hooped, and, in ad.
dition, to have four iron hoops, one on each
bilge, inch in width and l-l6th inch thick
and one on each chime, ~ inch in width, and
l-leth inch thick, and shall be thoroughly
coopered and placed in the best shipping condi.
ton.
The vinegar shall be Of the FIRST quality, equa
to the standard of the United States Phsrmaco
p0is, and shall contain no other than aceti,
acid and shall be delivered in barrels similar il
all respects TO those required for molssses, will
the exception that White oak slaves and head
shall be substituted for red oak slaves and whit
pine heads, and shall be thoroughly cooperet
and PLACED in the best shipping order
The whisky shall be made wholly from grain
sound and merchantable and be full first proof
according to the United States custom house
standard and shall be double recti6ed. I
shall be delivered in good, new, sound, bright
three quarters hooped, well-seasoned white oal
barrels, with white oak heads, the heads to b,
made OF three-piece heading, and we'll painted
tkn 60 10 Iaac l.. - Ill.,
the heads not 1855 than inch thick; and escl
barrel shall be coopered, in addition, with on
tires-penny iron hoop Or each bilge, u inch il
width and l-l8th inch thick and one three
peuny hoop on each chime, IL inch in widt
and l-leth inch thick, as per disRram, tbs who'
to be pI: in good shipping order, free of al
charge 70 the United states.
All the foregoing described articles, embrsciu,
casks, barrels, half-barrsls, and boxes shall b,
subject TO such inspection as the chief of tn,
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing may direct
the inspecting officer to bs appointed by III.
Navy Department. All inspections to be at th
place of delivery. Biscuit may, however, be in
spectsd at the place of manufacture, but will il
all gases be subject to final inspection at tb
place Of delivery before the bills are signe,
therefor.
The prices of all the foregoing articles to b.
the same throughout the year, and bidders ma,
offer for one or more articles, and his offer viii
be accepted for that article for which his propo
81 may be lowest.
AL the casks barrels and halt-bsrrels, boxs
OF packages, shall be marked with their contents
and the contractors name All the barrels anC
hslf-barrels of -four, bread and pickles, shal
have, In addition to the above, the year wher
Manufactured or put up marked upon them,
The quantity of these articles which will be
required cannot be precisely stated The con-
tracts will therefore be made, rot for specific
quantities, but for such quantities as the service
may require to be delivered.
Contractors not residing at the place where
deliveries are required, must establish agencies
at such place, that no delay may ariaa In fnr