The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-07-20

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y Materials for the Navy

bureau 81 steam Engt5ttefsng, July ~ ioot
CEALED PROPOSALS to furnish materials for
- the Navy Tor the fiscal year ending June 30th,
le65, will be received at the Bureau OF Steam Eng
neering until 40 O'Clock OF the 18Th day OF August
next, which time the opening will be commenced
PROMO. ais must ne endorsed Proposals for Mate
rias for the Navy" that they may be distinguish.
from other bushes letters and Injected 10 the Chief
OF the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
The materials and articles embraced In the classes
named particularly described in the prin ed
schedules any OF which will ne furnished 10 such as
desire TO offer, application to the Commandants
the respective yarus or 10 the Navy Agents
est thereto aud those of all the yards upon applica-
tion to the Bureau. sas2
Tnis division nto classes being for the convenience
of dealers in each such CLASSES only will be furnish
ed as are actually required Tor bids The Command
ant and Navy Agent ior each station will in addi-
tonic the schedule OF classes OF their own yards
have copy of the schedules OF the other yards for
examination only, from which may be judged wheth-
or II will be desirable to make application for any Of
the classes of those yards All other things beng
equal, preference viii be given to articles of Amer
lean manufacture.
Offers must tie 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 yara, or to any Navy Agent the form of
Offer OF guaranty. and other necessary Information
respecting the opo ais, will be furnished.
The contract viii be awarded TO the lowest bidder
who gives proper guarantees required by the law
the rignt to reject toe Lowest hid or any which may
be deemed eXOrbiant.
The contracts will bear date the day the notifica-
ton is given and deliveries can be manded from
that date. rat
suteties in the full amount will be required to sign
the contract, aud their responsibility certhed to by
United States District Judge United States Dis
trict Attorney, Collector or Navy Agent. As addi-
tonai security, twenty per eentum will be withheld
from tho amount the bills until the contracts shall
have been completed, and eighty per centam of each
bill, approved IN tIiplieate BY the Commandments OF
the respective yards will be paid by the Navy Agents
at the points OF delivery, in funds or certificates, ct
the option OF the Government. within ten days af-
ter the warrant for the shall have been passed
by the Secretary of the Treasury. e-
The folio wing are the classes required at the re-
spectiye nayy-yards
kITTERY, MAINE h'A
Glass No. ]. boiler iron. &C mo. 2, pig IRON No.
8, boiler telling: No. A. gum packing, &c; NO. g.
sperm oil No linseed oil &c no lard oil; No S
metallic oil no tal!ow and soaps No 10 engineers
stores; No IL engineers tools; IL engineers in
struments No II wrought iron pc &C; o Is tubes
No Is steel No IL iron nails, bols and NUTS no Is
copper No 10 tin &C; No % white lead. No p zinc
pai0ti No u c0lored paints; No 70 stationery; No
q frewood; No "a cotton waste, packing &c; No
IS engineers etores.
CHARLEsroWE. MASS.
Glass No boiler iron and riyets no pig iron mo
boiler ielting no gum packing rubber hose sc ;
no sperm oil no liuseed oil and turpentine;
lard OIL: no metal ic oil mo- tallow aud soap;
no l0 engineers stores; ii engineer tools a
1 ~ engineers Instruments; ID steam pumps; no
Il wrought iron pipe. valves, &c; no Is tubes no Is
steel no IL iron nails, bolts, nuts, A. IS copper
no 10 tin, zinc, sc; no 90 white lead; Il zinc
psint no 20 ored paints. Dir ers sc; no % sta
onery mo 25.hiosoTy and ash plank and butts, 20
white pine; no "a hemp and cotton packing, &C; no
IS engineers stores, &c.
BROOKLYN, n. Y.
Glass no boiler iron 70 pig iron; no 3 boiler
ielting no gum packing, rubber hose, &c; no s
sperm oili no nseed oil, tlrp9ni inc, alcohol, &c
no lard oil no 8 luhricating metallic OF 8 no
allow and soap: 10 en- gineers stores no Ii engi
neers' tools; no u engineers instruments; no. ID
steam pumpsl no u wrought iron pipes, waves, sc
no rs ubes no Is steel Il iron Bails bolts, nuts
&c; no is copper no ID tin, zinc, lead, &c no 20
white lead; no 81 zinc paint; % co ored paints
dryers. &C; no % stationery; "a fire wood NO Is
hickory and ash aIk and butts; no rs white pine;
! no "a black walnut and cherry no % mahogany
white holey: no 20 lanterns; no 80 lignumyita; no
/ 81 drudgeons, pumps &c; no 81 sour -four, cruci-
bles. &C. NO 80 patented articles no "a cotton and
hemp packings, &e; no o. engineers stores. -.
AK $50 PHILADELPHIA
Glass no bsiler iron, &C; no boiler telling; no
gum packing. rdbbor hose, &c; no sperm Oi no
linsted oil and tsrpeninei no lard oil; no tai
low soap, &c; no 10 engineers stores; ii engi-
nesrs' tools; no u engineers Instruments no IA
wrought on pipe, valves, &c; no 10 tubes: no l6
steel no IL iron nails, bolts and nuts; is copper:
no ~ tin, &C; NO 20 white lead q zinc paint:
no "a fire wood; no "a cotton and hem pa kin L
no 80 engineers stores, &C.
WASHINGTON.
Glass boiler iron, 4 c; no pig ron no boil.
er feting, &c; no gum packing rubber hose. sc no
sperm oil; no linseed oil and turpentine; no
lara oil; no lumber; no tallow and soap: no 10
engineers stores no IL engineers tools; u engi-
nees instruments; no is steam pumps, no IA
wrought iron plpe, valves &C: no Is tubes; no Is
cell no IL iron nail Dol S, NUT, q no Is copper;
no - tin, lead and zinc; no 20 white leadi no q
zine paint' no y ooored paints, dryers, no 20
stationery; no "A ire wood no "a cotton and hemp
packing, &C; no IS engineers stores.
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