The Portland daily press., 1864-07-27
PROPOSALS.
p u O 2 O s A L s
FOR
Materials for the Navy.
NAVY DEPARTMENT

NAVY !
Bareauc( Steam Engineering, July 10, 1854.
SEALED PROPOSALS TO furnish materials for
~ the Nayy for the fiscal year ending june 3Oth,
1866, will be received at the Bureau of Steam kng
neering until 10 O'Clock OF the 18th day of August
next, at which time the opening will be commenced
troposals must be endorsed Proposals for Mate.
rials for the Navy" that they may be distinguished
from other business letters and eced to the Chief
of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.
The materials and articles embraced in the classes
named sre particularly described in the prin I'D
schedules any OF which will De furnished to such n,
desire to Offer on application to the Commandments
OF the respective yards or 10 the Navy Agents
est thereto and those OF all the yards upon appca-
ton to the Bureau
This division into classes being for convenience
of dealers in each, such classes only will be furnish
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 own yards
have copy of the schedules OF the other Yards for
examination only, from which may be judged wheth-
err il will be desirable to application for any of
the classes of those yards. All other things being
equal preference Will be given TO articles of Amer
lean m anuiacture.
Offers must be made for the whole of the class at
any yard, upon one of the printed schedules or in
strict conformity Herewith, or they will not be
sidered
Upon application to the Bureau to the Command
ant of any yard or TO any Navy Agent, the form of
offer. OF guaranty, and other necessary information
respecting the p opo ais, will be furnished
The contract viii be awarded to the lowest bidder
who gives proper guarantees as required by the law
OF Angus. 10. 1916, tie Navy Department reserving
the rignt to reject toe lowest bid or any which may
be deemed eXOI bitant.
The contracts will bear date the day the notifca-
ton is given and deliveries can be d. handed from
that date.
Suretes in the full amount will be required to sign
the contract, aud their responsibility certified to by
United States Dis trict Judge, United States Dis
trict Attorney, Collector or Navy Agent. As addi-
tiona security, twenty per centum will be withheld
from the amount OF the bills until the contracts shall
have been completed, and eighty per centam OF each
bill, approved in triplicate by the Commandments OF
the respective ards will be paid by the Navy Agents
at the points of delivery, in funds certificates at
the option OF the Government within ten days af-
ter the warrant for the shall have been passed
by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The following are the classes required at the
spective nayy-yards.
KITTERY, MAINE.
Glass No. /, boiler iron, &c No q pig iron; No
8, boiler telling: No. A. gum packing, sc; No. 6,
sperm oil; No linseed oil SC; NO I lard oil No
metallic oil no tallow and soap; No 10 engineers
stores No ii engineers tools; 40 IL engineers in
struments No Ia wrought iron pc No 10 tubes;
No Is steel; No IL iron nails. bos and nuts. No IS
copper; No 10 Tin &c; No 20 white lead; NO q zinc
paint; No y coiofed paints; No 20 stationery; No
"a hrewood; No 81 cotton waste, packing &C. No
IS engineers stores.
CHARLESTowN, MASS.
Glass No j boiler iron and rivets; no pig iron mo
8 boiler telling; no gum packing rubber hose &C;
no S sperm oil; no linseed oil aud turpentine: no
lard oil no metal lie oil no 2 tallow and soap;
no 10 engineers stores; no III engineers tools;
IL engineers instruments; no 10 steam pumps no
IA wrought iron pipe valves, &C. mo Is tubes; l6
steel II iron nails bolts nuts, Is copper;
no lsun, zinc, &c, no 20 white lead; no II zinc
paint; ~ co ored paints, dryers, &c no q sta.
tionery 25hickofy and ash plank and butts no &c
white pines no 81 hemp and cotton packing, & c; no
IS engineers stores, &c.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Glass no boiler iron TO pig iron; no boiler
telling, no gum packing rubber hose, &C. no
sperm oil Iineeed oil, turpenl inc alcohol &c;
no lard oil; no luhricating metallic oils; no
allow and soap; 10 engineers stores: no IL engi-
neers' tools; IL engineers instruments; no 13
steam pumps; no IA wrought iron pipes, waves, sc;
no 10 tubes no l6 steel; NO IL iron nails bolts nuts
&C; no is copper; n 10 tin, zinc, lead &C; no 20
white Lead no q zinc paint; no % ored paints
dryers. &c no Is stationery; no "a fire wood IS
hickory and ash ank and butts: no 20 white pine;
no 81 black walnut and cherry; no % maho gany
white hoey; no % lanterns; no 30 ligrumyita: no
81 drudgeons. pumps, &c; no 80 -four, cruel
bles, &c no 80 patented articles; "a cotton and
hemp packings, &c; no 81 engineers stores
PHILADELPHIA.
Glass no boiler iron, sc: no 9 boiler feltinp; no
gum packing. rabber hose, &c; no sperm oil; no
nseed oil and turpentiDe; no. lard oil; no 8 tall
low soap, &C; no 10 engineers stores no ii enei-
neers' tools; no IL engineers instruments; no IA
seei no IL lion nsiie, bolts and NUTS no is copper
10 tin C; no % white lead no 81 zinc paint:
no ~ co.ored Points and dryers; no % ssati3nery
"a fire wood; "a cotton and he mp pa ckip q ac
no 25 engineers stores, sc.
WASHINGTON.
Glass no ! boiler iron, q c; no pig ron no boil
err feting, &c; no gum packing rubber hose & no
sperm oil no linseed oil and turpentine; no
lara oil; no lumber; no Q taow and soap; no 10
engineers stores; no IL engineers toos no IL enRi
neeis' Instruments; no Is steam pumps: no Ia
wrought iron pipe, valves &c; 15 tubes; no Is
eel; no IL iron nail Dol NUT, G. no is copper;
no ~ tin, lead and zinc; no 20 white lead; no 81
zinc paint; no y colored paints, dryers, q no 20
stationery no "a ire wood no 81 cotton and hemp
packing, &c; no IS engineers stores.
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