The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-02-07
Proposals for ~, 10, and 9 inch
Cannon.
ORDNANCE OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT, l
WASHINGTON January 9th. 1879 (

ORDNANCE OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON. January 9th 1858. I
Proposals will be received at this Office until PM.
on the 9th of February, 1863 for furnishing 49, 10
and inch cast iron cannon to be made In conform
ity with drawings to be supplied by the Ordnance
Department, and with the following specifications:
One 10 inch trial gun is to be made Of warm or cold
blast charcoal iron, be cast hollow and cooled from
the interior, and to have tenacty of metal of not
less than 1000 pounds per square inch. to be deter
head of the gun, and from cylinder cast from the
same heat and from metal of the same quality as that
from which the gun Is cast This cylinder Is to be
cast erd in dry sand moulds and is to be 52nches
high with an elliptica base of "a inches greater and
10 inches lesser axis The specimens are to be cut
from the gun head, a. slab Al inches thick from
the cylinder by planes parallel TO- and equi-distant
from the axis Of the cylinder, and the lesser axis of
the base.
The Ordnance Department will test the specimens,
furnish the ammunition, and prove the trial gun,
which must be ready for trial as possible and
not later than three months from the daie the
tract No contract will be given, will the trial
gun be paid for unless it shall endure proof of 1000
rounds with service charges of powder which 200
rounds will be with solid shot, and 500 rounds with
shells The testing is to be done free of charge the
facilities for testing such convenient ground sfor
age for ammunition, butt in which the proiecfiles
VIII be embedded and saved and the requisite force
to be made OF the same quality of iron that of the
trial gun, and the Ordnance Department Is 10 have
the right TO test the iron during the process of b
cation of the cannon TOR which purpose the founder
is to furnish. free of charge. at least specimen
from the head of each cannon. and slabs from cyn-
ders, before described. at the option of the De-
partfnent, not TO exceed for every ten cannon.
Each cannon il to endure the regular proof and in
spection for guns of the calibre; and none are
to be received or paid for but such are approved
after inspection and proof, which will be received at
the foundry where made Bidders will state the num-
bers and calibers of the they propose fur
nish the foregoing specifications and conditions;
the place where they to be made the time Of COM
mencng delivery and the rate OF delivery per month
thereafter. and the price per pound per gun for
the finished 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
the contractor TO forfeiture of the amount to be de-
lvered ut that time. Each party obtaining contract
will be required TO enter into bonds, with proper SUI
reties for its faithful ulflment; and transfer Of the
contract to another party will its entire forfeit
ure. Bidders will be required to file with their bids
bond in the penal sum of not less than $4,000,
signed by not less than two persons conditioned that
il the bid is accepted. the bidder shall comply with
he proposes TO undertake. The bond must be ac-
knowledged before Judge of court of record. and
the boDdsmen must be certified by the Judge of
District Court of the United States or an Ordnance
officer in charge of United States arsenal, to be
each worth the penal sum of the bord and above
all liabilities The right is ed TO reject all pro-
posas If the prices deemed too high or If for any
cause IL is not deemed for the public interest to
cept them.
Proposals will be sealed and addressed to General
j. W Ripley. Chief of Ordnance. w ashington d. C !"
and will be endorsed Proposals for heavy cannon"
J.W RIPLEY,
BrigadicrGeneral Chief of Ordnance.
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