Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-09-03

500, 900 It's. Salt Water Soap.

thuty days notice, IN good strong boxes contains
ing twenty-five bars, weighing three lbs. each,
and, at er inspection, the boxes must be hooped
at each end at the expense OF the contractor.
Glass No. ..
$4,000 jack knives
20, 90 spoons
$1,000 forks
5000 razors lin single cases.
5000 razor straps
10000 cissors
SEQ go needles sewing, Nos. l. 2, 5, 4, drill eyed,
betweens
10000 thimbles, s. 10 and $40 in diameter.
5000 can-openers
10000 dozen ID. E. buttons
CLASS No. s.
1900 dozen gilt eagle coat buttons
5000 dozen gilt eagle buttons, medium
5000 dozen giit eagle vest buttons
CLASS No. 4.
10000 fine combs, India rubber or gut,a percha
10000 coarse combs do do do do
CLASS No. S.
10000 scrub brushes --.
10000 shoe brushes
10000 shaving brushes
5000 whisk brooms
GLASS No. G. ....
5000 hands grass, Tor hats
$1,000 lbs 6eeswax, Ia the cakes pure
20, coo cakes shaving soap, not less than two
ounces per cake
10000 boxes backing
CLASS No. 7.
$4,000 spools cotton, of Nos. IL and lG, zoo
yards eal h three cords, equal parts.
5000 lbs thread, black and white in quarter
una packages, equal TO MarshalPs
best quality, ana in such proportions as
may be required
1000 lbs silk, sewing, blue black, pure silk,
avolrdupois weight, (wrappers not in
caded,) per ounce Ill quarter pound
packages.
10000 pieces ribbon, hat, best French black,
. yards tie the piece; width IL
inch, texture 10 by 10 to l6 of
inch.
1 nlp
length, l-2 inch vide
10000 pieces tape, black twilted cotton, six
yards IN length, IL inch wide
10000 pocket handkerehieis, cotton so la by
rs inches weight not less than | 10
ounce each, texture s by to one-half
10000 lbs mustard seed, American brown
2 goo lbs black pepper, Malabar
LOCO gross bott es, oetagon, for mustard and
pepper
1000 gloss corls
CLASS No. 8.
$1,000 lbs stearine candles
The candles must be s.sixes,'' of prime leaf lard
stearine. g. inches in length, exclusive of tip,
six candles to weigh not les than Ia ounces So
100, nor more than 10 ounces and be paid or &C.
cording to the actual weight, without reference to
commercial usage; the melting point not to be
less than lao degrees Fahrenheit. The wick must
be blaided and composed of rs cotton threads of
the best quality of No. q yarn. The candles to
be delivered on thirty days notice, in good boxes,
containing about thirty 500 pounds each, and the
box to be marked with the contractors name and
the weight of the candles
All the articles named in class must be in
cluded in the offer. All will be required within
the fiscal year, and no excess of any article will
be received under the contracts.
All the foregoing articles must be of the best
quality, ana contormable in all respects to the
samples depos ted at said navy yards, and subject
to such inspection at the navy yard where deliv-
cred as the Chief of the Bureau mar direct the
inspecting officer to be appointed by the Navy de-
partment
A hn rtic 70 no ALI &C.
dental expense to the government, in proper yes
sells or PACKAGES and the price of each article
must be the same at the respective places Of de-
livery. Packages in which the above articles are
delivered must be marked with their contents,
and the name of the contractor. and be sufficient
to insure their temporary safe keeping.
The contractor must establish agencies at such
stations other than his residence. that delay
may arise in furnishing what may be required;
and when the contra tor or agent fails promptly
to comply with a requisitiop, the Chief Df the
Bureau OF Provisions and Clothing shall be au-
thorzed to direct purchases to be maze to supply
the deficiency, under the penalty to be expressed
in the contract; the record of requistion, or a
duplicate copy thereof, at the Bureau OF prlvis-
ions and Clothing, or at either of the navy yards
aforesaid, shall be evidence that such requisition
has been made and received.
Two approved sureties in a sum equal
to the estimated amount of the contract, will be
required, and twenty per eentum in addition Will
be withheld from the amount Of all payments
account thereof collateral security, to secure
its performance, and no; in any event to be paid
until 1T Is IN all respects complied with eighty
per centum of the amou unit of all deliveries made
will be paid by the navy agent within ten days
after warrants for the same shall have been passed
by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Blank forms of proposals may be obtained on
application to the navy agents at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire; Boston, New York, Phladel-
phia, Baltimore, and at this Bureau
record, or duplicates OF the letter informing
q bidder of the acceptance of his proposal vail be
deemed a notification thereof, within the meaning
of the act of IL l6, and his bid will be made and
accepted in conformity with this understands
ing
Every offer made must be accompanied Gas di-
rected in the act 81 Congress making appropria.
tons for the naval service for 1861, approved
10th Of August, 1870 by written guarantee,
signed by one more responsible persons, to the
effect that he they un dertake that the bidder
bidders will, if his their bid be accepted enter
sufficient sureties to furnish the supplies pro-
posed The bureau will not be obligated to con.
slider any proposal unless accompanied by the
the guarantee to be certified by the navy agent,
by satisfactory evidence that the bidder has the
license required by the act of Congress of March
Sd. 1868.
The attention of BIDDERS is called to the sam.
Piles ard description of articles required, as, in
the inspection before reception, Just but rigid
mparison will be made between the articles of
fered and the sample and contract, receiving none
that fall below them and their attention is also
particularly directed to the Joint resolution Of
9th March, 1854, and to the act Of 10th August,
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