Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-08-02
ORDINANCE OFFICE,
~ WAR DEPARTMENT,

Sealed proposals. will be received at this office
until O'Clock, p. m, on MONDAY, August 1, 1864,
for nling, assembling, plating finishing, packing,
500 U. 8. ARTILLERY CURB BITS,
OF the latest pattern TO DO delivered at the United
States Ordnance Agency, No. - Worth street. New
The side bars and mouth pieces as they come
from the drops TO be furnished from the Springfield
Armory, where specimens and the model bits can
be seen. The shell bearing the letters U. S. A. are
to be made from No % sheet brass, (ProVidenes
irre 1duge) and to be filled with lead before being
sodered The plating 10 to be not less TIL an No 10,
and to be Of doe quality. The rings are to be oil
the beat iron clock wre and the lower bar OF brass
wire, the anish TO be equal In all respects to that
| Of the sample sets.
The bids are TO be subject to inspection at all
be marked with the makers name and residence,
| and when completed are to conform strictly In
every respect with the pattern standard bits at
They are to be packed In parer buudles OF six
each, labelled, ten bundles In box as prescribed
BY the Inspector. Packing boxes to be valued ey
Deliveries, which arc to be made without any
charge to the UDited states Tor transportation or
week, and the frat delivery OF 500 bits to be made
on the 10th day Of August, 1854.
The stock furnished BY the United states will be
Inspected before issued and for set OF parts Issued
to the contractor finished bit 10 to DO retuI ed.
No bids will be considered except from parties
ness, and who are known to this Department to
be fully competent to execute in their own shops
the work proposed Tor.
| Forms Of bid can be obtained at the above Ar
mory or at this office,
Prcpo,ai. not made Out on he above form r0H mol
| b considered.
The bidder will be required to accompany his
proposition with a guaranty, signed by two re:
he will at once execute the contract for the same
with good and sufficient sureties, in sum equal
,S ss ss whos .Sh Of me 70 b %
OF this advertisement; and In case the said bidder
| should fail to enter into the contract, they to
make good the difference between the offer OF said
bidder and the next responsible bidder, the per.
son to whom the contract may be awarded. The
responsibility Of the gusrantors nust be shown
by the Official certificate OF the Clerk the nearest
District Court or OF the United States District
| Attorney.
gusrAntors, will be required OF the successful bid
or bidders E 1FSG 'ifEHiHE The SS9tEs't
| We, the undersigned, rCsidentB OIL, guar
antee, in case the foregoing bid Of -, in the
county Of S and state Of n;,S ~ hereby
Slater, and be accepted, that he or they VIII a.
once execute the contract for the same, with good
and ,1 S int IN SsqaSS to M
proposed In conformity to the terms of the adver
tisement, dated July 49, 1884, under which the bid
fall to enter into contract as Aforesaid, we guar
sHtee to n, make good the difference between III!
responsible bidder, or the person to whom the con
tract may he awarded.
Given under our hands and seals this = day o.
-, 1866. tSeall
Witness. SeAll
To this guaranty must be appended the OfiGiA
certificate above mentioned.
Each party obtaining q contract will be obigel
to enter into bonds, vita approved sureties, FOL
the faithful execution OF the same.
Upon the award being made, successful bidder
Will be notified and furnished with forms OF con
tract and bond
The Department reserves the right to reject any
or all the bids, II deemed uusatisiaetory on anI
sooount.
Proposals will be addressed to Brigadier Gen
eral George d. Ramsay, Chief Of Ordnance, WA,h
lngton, d. Co. and endorsed "PropOsAlB To-
Plating and Finishing Artillery Bits"
GEO. d. RAMSAY, Brigadier General,
lyle tuthIa6t Chief Of Ordnance.