The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-14
PROPOSALS.
DROPosALs FOR MATERIALS TO BE SUP.
j. Piled TO THE NAVY YARDS, UNDER
The EC0GNizANGE OF iHE BUREAU or CON-
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF CoNsTRUcTIoN AND REPAIR.

bIhOClIOh AMI Alhs
NAVY DEPARTMENT
BURFNU AZ T OF CoSsTRgGTIoN }S 2, Ian, AND u oREMPAIR M
Sealed Proposals to furnish TIMBER and other
Materials for the Navy for the fiscal year ending
June 80 1867, will be received at this Bureau until
10 O'Clock A. Nj. of the 28'h OF June next at which
time the proposals will be opened.
The proposals must be addressed to the Chief of
the Bureau of Construction and Repair, NAVY De-
pariment, " ashinpton, and must be endorsed PRO
posals for Timber, etc for the Navy, that they may
be distinguished from other business letters
Irihted schec ues Tor any class, together with
snuctlons to bidders, Piving the forms OF proposal
OF guaran ee, and of certificate of guaantors, will be
lulnEhed 10 such persons desire TO bid, on appl-
cation 10 the commnndants of the respective navy
yards and those Of all the yards on Application to
The Commandant OF each navy yard and the Pur-
chasing Pay master for each station will have copy
OF the schedules OF the other yards for examination
only, in order that persons who intend TO bid may
judge whether IT IS desirable TO make application for
any OF the classes OF those yards
The proposal must be for the whole of a class; and
all APPLICATIONS for IN ormntIon, for the exanina.
uon oil samples, must be made TO the Commsndants
The proposal must be accompanied by a certificate
from the Collector or Internal Revenue the dis
uict in which the bidder resides, that ho has
license deal in the articles for which he proposes;
and he must further show chat he is manufacturer
Of regular dealer in, the articles which he Offers
TO supply The guarantors must he certified by the
Assessor OF Internal Revenue for the district in
which they reside.
The contract will be awarded to the person who
makes the lowest bid and gives the guarantee re-
CURED by law, the Navy Der artment, however, re-
which it may deem exorbitant.
suIetes in the full amount will be required TO
sign the contract and their responsibility must be
certified to the satisfaction Of the Navy Department
AS addIiioGal security twenty per centum will be
withheld from the amount of the bills until the
contract shall have been completed, and eighty per
n um OF the amount OF each bill, approved in trI
pleate by the Commanda mt OF the respective yard,
Will be paid by the Paymaser of the station desg-
mated in the contract IN funds certificates at the
option Of the Government within ten days after the
warrant for the same shall have been passed by the
Secretary OF the Treasury.
The classes OF this bureau are numbered and de-
Class No, /, white oak logs; No. 2 white oak keel
or Eee'son piect s; No. 3, White oak curved timber;
No ., white oak PLANK No, 9, white oak boards; No.
8, yellow pine mast and spar timber; No. 8, white
llne deck and stage plank; No. 10, white pioe mast
No y, ackmatack tiiuber; No. 49, ASH logs, plank,
and boards; No: ID, ash oars; No. To- hickory butts
mahogany, whie wood, and veneers; No II, cedar
and cypress boards No. is, locust timber, No. ~,
T 0ak No. M locust aeena and " wedges
No. 60 lignumvite; No. 25. iron-round, fiat and
squares No rs, steel; No. p, IRON spikes; No rs,
iIon nails-wrought and cut; No. 80, lead; No. 81,
dlygoods and upholstery; No 33, hardware; No. 81
tools Tor stores; No. 36, white lead; No. 81, zinc
yaInish, etc. No 49, nseed oilj No. Al glass; No.
AZ, brushes; No 49, fish oil; No. 10, tal.ow, soap,
Cakum; No 49, tank iron; No so, ingot copper No.
81, poles; No 90, bellows.
The following are the classes, by their numbers
required at the respective navy yards:-
KITlERY
oNos 60 10, 13, II, 49, 25 27, 2S, 80, 49, SO, IS,
SO, 40, Al, A, 40, AZ.
Nos / q g. A. 6, 8, g. II II, 13, IA. 16, H. Is, 10.
90 81 23 20 2 20 49, 3O 81 49, 3d. 3D. 81, 81, IS, 80,
40, IL, a, 45, Al 48.
BROORLYN.
Nos. g. T. 8, 10, H. 49, IA 10 16 II, 49, 90 %, 25,
2e p, 2S, 80, ST. 49, SO, "a, &c. 49, 49, Al, A. As A.
49, 80. -
PHILADELPHIA.
Nos d. s. TO- Il II 13, 20, % 25 90, 81, 49, 81, SO,
81, 3S, 80, 40, Al, AZ, 45 AZ, as 60
WASHINGTON.
Nos. l. 6, H. Is, 15 16 Is 10. 20, %, 26 81 49, 30
81, 49, 33, 49, 81. 5S, 30, 40. Al, AZ, so, 81, SO.
Nos. l, a, 6, II, 10. 531 that