The Portland daily press., 1863-02-14
Proposals for Ii, 10, and D inch
Cannon
oRDsAScE OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT.

ORDNANCE OFFICE. WAR DEPARTMENT
WAsHISGroS. January 9th, lsi3
Proposals will be received this office until ~
the 9th OF February 1853 for furnishing IA 10
and inch cast iron cannon. to be made in conforms
iIy with drawings TO be supplied by the Ordnance
Department, and with the following Specifications:
One 10 inch trial gun is to be made of or cold
blast charcoal ron to be cast hollow aud cooled from
the interior, aud TO have tenacty OF metal of
less than 5000 pounds per square inch be deter
mined by testing specimens taken from the sinking
head OF the gun, and from cy Under cast from the
same heat, and from metal of the quality as that
from which the gun is east. This cylinder Is to be
cast erd in dry sand mouds and to be ~ inches
high. with eptcal base of "a inches greater and
10 inches lesser axis. The specimens are TO be cut
rom the gun head a n slab, Al inches thick from
the cylinder by planes parallel TO- and equi-
from the axis of the cylinder and the axis of
the base.
The Ordnance Department will test the specimens
furnish the ammunition, aud prove the tiial gun,
which must be ready for trial possible and
not later than three months from the date the con-
tract NO contract viii be given wills the trial
gun be paid for unless il shall endure proof of 1000
rounds with service charges of powder of which 300
rounds will be with solid shot and so rounds with
shells The testing is to be done free OF charge To the
contractor but he will be required furnish proper
facilities for testing such convenient ground sfor-
age for ammunition, a butt in which the projectiles
viii be embedded and saved, and the requisite force
for handling and firing the guns. All the cannon are
to be made of the same quality of iron that of the
trial gun, and the Ordnance Department is TO have
the right TO test the iron during the process OF fabr
cation of the easnon Tor which purpose the founder
Is to fdrnish free of charge at least specimen
from the head of each cannon and slabs from cyln.
ders as before described ai the option of the De-
partmenf, not to exceed one for every ten cannon
Each cannon is TO endure the regular proof and in.
spection for guns of the same cabre; and none are
TO be received paid for but such as are approved
after inspection and proof which will be received at
the foundry where msde Bidders will state the num-
bers and ealibers of the they propose to ur.
nish on the foregoing specifications and conditions;
the where they are TO be made: the time COM
mencing delivery and the rate of delivery per month
thereafter, and the price per pound per gun for
the hnished cannon. No bids will be entertained
unless from founders actually engaged in the busi-
ness, evidence Of which must accompany the bid.
Failure to deliver at the specified time will subject
hyered at that time. Each party obtaining contract
viii be required to enter into bonds with proper SUI
retes for its faithful nlhlment and transfer of the
contract to another party will its entire forfeit
nre Bidders will be required to file with their bids
a BOND IN the penal sum of not less than $4,000.
signed by not less than two persons conditioner that
IL the bid is accepted the bidder shall comply with
his proposal and faithfully and fully perform what
he proposes to undertake. The bond must be ac-
knowledged before a judge of court of record and
the bondsmen mast be certified by the Judge of a
District Court of the United States or an Ordnance
oihcer IN charge of a United States arsenal to be
each worth the penal sum of the bond over and above
all liabilities The right is ed to reject all pro-
posas II the prices deemed high or il for apy
cause II Is not deemed for the public interest to
cept them.
Proposals will be sealed and addressed to General
j. W. Ripley, Chief of Ordnance. Washington d. -"
and will be endorsed Proposals for heavy cannon
j. w. RIPLEY,
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