Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-20

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JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the secretary of
the navy to ADJUST the equitable claims of con-
tractors Tor naval supplies, and regulating
contracts with the navy department
be 1t resolved by the senate ami house of rep
reNentatlveS OF the United States OF America in
congress assembled, that the secretar, OF The ma
w be ana lie Is hereby authorized to adjust and
settle the claims of contractors for naval sup
piles, VINO, during the last fiscal year ending
thrtieth June, eighteen bundled aud sixty-two.
nave FURNISHED TO the department more than one
hundred per centun above the Quantities specI-
hed III their contracts, and without default there
IN; and Tor the purpose of hearing said claims
may associate with the chief OF tue bureau with
winch the contract was made the chief of any
other bureau, SUBJECT to an appeal to said cIe-
tary from their decisions Provided that no cuu-
tractor shall Dc allowed, except upon the excess
over the stipulated quantity aud one hundred per
centum III addition thereto, and upon such eX-
cess not more than sufficient to make the price
thereon equal to the fair market value of the
supplies at the lime and place of delivery; nor
Shall any CONTRACTOR be alO wed any amount uu-
der this section uaesS there has been an tctual
loss 10 the contractor upon tue whole contract :
Aud provided, further, that all claimants under
any such contracts shall present their claims to
tho department within six months after the pass
age OF TINS JOINT resolution, or be forever barred
nom any equitable claim on account of said con-
tracts.
Sect. And be it further resolved, that the
chief OF any bureau vi the navy department in
contracting for naval supplies, shall Je at liber-
ty 10 rtJect the offer of any person who as prin-
clpal or surety, has been d.iauter in any prcvi-
Gus contract with the navy depat tmcnt; nor
shall parties who have fal;I as principals or
SuretieS i'll a'iy former contract be reserved as
surelles on other contracts; Shall the cUpart-
ners OF any firm be received as suretles for such
lrm or for each her; nor, III contracts with the
Same bureau, shall one contractor be received as
surety Tor another; and every contract shall re-
qure the delivery of specified quantity, and no
bids having nominal or fictitious prices shall be
considered. Thot il more than one bid be of
Tered by any one pnly by or III the nAWe Of his
bius may he rejected; and no per, on shall be re-
wed aS Il cUutfdCto who j. not II III tuuidcturer
Of, Or Regular dealer , The articles which he Of
eis 10 supply, who has lot ii LceHSe as such man
uiactHrer or dealer. Aud all PERSONS offering bids
shall have tue ri HI 10 Dc pieSenC when the bids
are OpGded Il ID pcct the same
Sect, 3. a I'D De il ia ther IcsolYed, that the
secretary OF the navy bc and he is hereby au-
thOilzed to release aHd discharge the penalties,
or the provisions ia the q of penalties, in
certain cases of uniuiilcd contracts with the
bureau OF construction and OF provisions and
clothing of the navy department, made by Ma
thanel w. COffiD, William Lang, Henry New
ton, Baxter Il Sumner, and TlliOu, WheeiwrIsht
an Company, for the fiscal year ending thrtieth
June, i2hieen hundred and siXty-two, made
prior 10 the proclamation Of the president estab-
hshing biockades of the southern ports, Or 10
the several acts of congress passed subsequent
thereto, imposing additional duties upoA domes-
tic and foreign products, wherein, by reason of
said acts ami failure of the government to pay
according 10 the prescribed lcrm, parties have
been obstrucIrf AID preven'eI from proper full
fment of tue same TO the end that these accounts
may be settled and adjusted on terms of equity
and justice; and in the settlement of such az
counts there shall be associated with the chief of
the bureau in which the contract was made the
chief Of some other bureau of the navy depart
mcnt, and their decision shall be passed upon,
modified, abridged, rejected, or approved by the
secretary of the navy, as IN his judgment, the
law ard justice shall require.
Approved, March 3, 1868.