The Portland daily press., 1864-08-02
PROPOSALS.
2 L O = O 8 a L S!
FOR
Materials for the Navy.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.,


Bureau II Steam Engineering, July 10, ls6i
CEALED PROPOSALS to furnish materials for
y the Navy for the iiseal year Guiding june 3oth,
1866 will be received at the Bureau of Steam Engi
neering until 10 O'Clock of the 18Th day of August
next, which time the opening will be commenced
fropoe ais must be endorsed Proposals for Mate
rials for the Navy" that they may be distinguished
from other business letters and dn eced TO the Chief
OF the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
The materials and articles embraced in the classes
named are particularly described in the print ed
schedules any OF which will furnished such as
desire TO ofier, application to the Comma dants
OF the respective .ards, or TO the Navy Agents
est thereto, ana those of all the yards upon appca-
lion TO the Bureau.
This divsioninto classes being for the convenience
of dealers in each, such classes only will be nsh-
ed as are actually required Tor bids The Command
ant and Navy Agent Tor each station will, in addi-
ton to the schedule OF classes of their yards,
have copy of the schedules OF the other yards tor
examination only from which may be judged wheth-
er 1t will be desirable TO make application for any OF
the classes of those yards. All other things being
equal, preference viii be given to articles of Amer
lean manu- tacture.
Offers must be made for the whole of the class at
any yard, upon one of the printed schedules, in
strict conformity Herewith, or they will not be con-
sidered.
Upon application to the Bureau to the Command
ant of any yard, to any Navy Agent, the form OF
offer, of guaranty, and other necessary Information
| respecting the opo ais, will be furnished
The contract will be awarded TO the lowest bidder
who gives proper guarantees as required by the law
of August To- 1si6, TIE Navy Department reserving
the rig ut reject the lowest bid, any which may
be deemed exorbitant.
The contracts will bear date the day the notifica
ton Is given and deliveries can be d. anded from
that date.
sureties in the full amount will be required to sign
the contract, and their responsibility certified to by
United States District Judge United States Dis.
| trict Attorney, Collector or Navy Agent. As addi
tional security twenty per centum will be withheld
from the amount of the bills until the contracts shall
have been completed, and eighty per centum of each
/ bill, approved in tTiplicate by the Commandments OF
the respective yards will be paid the Navy Agents
at the points OF delivery in funds or cerncates, a
the option OF the Government. within ten days at
ter the warrant for the shall have been passed
/ by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The following are the classes required at the re
spectiye navy-yards.
kITTERY, MAINE.
Glass No. /. boiler iron, &c. No. O. pig iron; No
| 3, boiler telling: No. T. gum packing, &c; No. 8
| sperm oil No linseed oil &c No lard oil; No
metallic oil no 8 talow aud soap; No 10 engineers
stores No IL engineers tools NO u engineers in
struments No Ia wrought iron ppe n o Is tubes
No l6 steel; No II iron nails, bolts and NUTS No Il
copper; No 10 tin Sc No - white lead: Nc Il zinc
paint; No y colored paints; No 70 stationery; NJ
"a hrewood No "a cotton waste, packing &C; Nc
IS engineers stores.
CHARLEsTowN, MASS.
Glass No boiler iron and rivets; pig iron INC
! 8 boiler telling; no gum packing rubber hose sc
no 8 sperm oil; no linseed oil and turpentine NJ
lizard oil; NO metal ic Oil no Iallow and soap
no 10 engineers stores; no III engineers tools; ne
| " engineers Instruments no 10 steam pumps; nc
IA wrought iron pipe, valves, &c: no 10 tubes II
steel no IL iron nails. bolts, nuts, Is copper
no IL tin. zinc, &c; no % white lead; no II zins
paint; no Y co ored paints dryers, &c; no % sta
tionery 25,hckory and ash plank and butts no X
white pine; no 81 hemp and cotton packing, sc; nc
81 engineers stores, &c.
BROOKLYN, NY.
Class no boiler iron no 2 pig iron; no boilel
| felting; no gum packing, rubber hose, sc; no
sperm oili no inseed oil, turpen ine alcohol, q
no lard oil, no lubricating or metalio oils no
tallow and soaps no 10 engineers stores NO IL engi
neers' tools; no IL engineers instruments; no /;
steam pumps; no IA wrought iron pipes, waves, &C
no Is tubes 10 steel IL iron nails bolts nuts
sc; no Is copper; no ID tin, zinc. lead. SC; no q
white lesdi no y zine paint; no Y co ored paints
dryers. &C; % stationery; no "a fire wood no q
hickory aud ash ank and butts; no % white pine
no % black walnut and cherry; no IS mahogany
III drudeeons. pumps, Sci no 81 sour -four, cruel
bies. &c: SO patented articles; no 81 cotton and
hemp packings, &c; NO IS engineers stores.
PHILADELPHIA.
Glass no boiler iron, Sc; no S boiler felting. nc
gum packing. rabber hose. 4 C; no sperm uii Nc
linseed oil and turpentine; no lard oil; no tai
low soap, &c; no 10 engineers stores; no IL engi
/ neers' toolsi no IL engineers instruments; 10 Il
wrought on pipe, valves, sc; no 10 tubes; no l,
steel; no IL iron nsiis, bolts and nuis Is copper
no 10 tin C; no 20 white lead no 81 zine paint
no q co.ored paints and dryers no 20 stationery
no % tire wood no ~ cotton and hemp packing &
no 30 engineeTs' stores, SO.
WASHINGTON.
| Glass no boiler iron, &c; no pig ron no boil
er fe ting, &o no gum packing. rubber hose &
I sperm oil no linseed oil and turpentne; no
| lari oil. no lumber; no tallow and soap: no Il
engineers stores no IL engineers tools; u eng
wrought iron pipe, valves. sc; no u tubes; no !,
sleel no II iron nail Dol s. nuts, no is copper
no 10 tin, lead aud cine; no 20 white lead; no q
stationery; no "A IRE wood; no "a cotton and henri
packing, &c; DO IS engineers stores.
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