The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-11
PROPOSALS.
A NlHRAClTE COAL ToR THE NAVY,
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NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING
December o. 1866

NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING,
Sealed Proposals for furnishiUg Entbracite Cyoal
for the Navy, to To delivered during the balance of
the fiscal year ending Both June. 1866 will be re-
Seiyed at this bureau until 10 O'Clock A. NJ, 2Sd
These proposals must be endorsed Proposals for
Anthrace Coal Tor steamers" that they may be
uisnnPuished from other business letters.
2240 pounds.
TIE coal must be of the best Buck Mountain or
Black Heath, OF OF kind equal to them in all re-
spects, for he purpose intended which equality will
to,v 6e % EN- by Board appointed by the seore
must be stated in the offer.
1t ito be delivered IN lumps of suitable size for
naval steamers, clean, uniform uuaitty selected
iree IRON impurities, unn Ixed, of which the con-
tractor will be required to furnish such evidence as
will be ,atsfactory and be subject to such inspec
tlOn os 10 quality and quantity as the Department
may dIeet The coal must in ali respects, be salts
factory 10 the inspector nspectorst TO be appointed
by the bureau, who will have the right Of peremptOry
rejection.
The coal is TO be delivered on boa-d vessels, at
such place in the port Of New York may be desia.
mated by the Bureau, ana such quantities and at
such tunes as, In the opinion Of the Bureau the
exigencies OF the service may require; commencing
when tie vessel is reported read, TO receive cargo
lurmshinP II demanded not less than 1000 tons per
day, 10 be distributed TO each vessel as NAV be d.
rected, until the loading is completed
IN the case of failure 10 deliver the ceal in proper
1uahuIyp oi the proper quality, and AZ the proper
.
tract q right to purchase forthwith, AZ the con-
hGclOis rlsk and expense, that which may seem
necessary to supply the deficiency
ANY demurrage other charges to which the
Navy Department may be subjected from delay in
me prompt deiVery OF the coal by the contractors
VIII be deducted from their bills.
The pnce must be for the coal delivered on board
vessels, on the terms and conditions above stated
extra cl arge of any kind
The offer required by 'aw. must be accompa.
nicd by written guarantee signed bv one or more
a fhof undn
take that the bidder bidders will, If his or their
bid lie ecceptt d. enter INTO obligation, such time
as may be presci ibCd by the Bureau with good and
sufficient securities, TO furnish the supplies pro.
posed.
No proposition will be considered unless accom-
panleO by such guarantee; and the department
The right to reject all tie offers if considered
to be 10 the interest Of the service to do so.
Two or more sureties each in a sum equal to the
amount specified 10 be laid will be required to
sign q contract, and their responsibility will be
certified by a United States District judge JJnited
States District Attorney, Collector or Navy Agent
AS additional and collateral security, twenty per
cent, will be witt held from the amount of all pay
mCnts which reservation is not TO be paid, eXcept
by authority or the Secretary of the Navy until the
contract shall have been IN all respects complied
with; and the remaining eighty per cent or other
amount that may lie due upon each BILL will, when
proper certificate is furnished by the inspector and
the bill approved by the Bureau, be paid by such
navy agents as the contractor NAV name within ten
days after the warrants for the same shall have been
passed by the Secretary OF the Treasury.
1t will be stipulated in the contract that if default
be made in The delivery of the coal-in the ouau.
hty or the quality, and at the place and time d.
rfcted by the Bureau-then, and in that case the
contractor and Is surenes will forfeit and pay to
the United States as liquidated damages, q sum of
money not exceeding twice the contract price
winch may be recovered from time to time, accord
vided
Bidders whose proposals. shall be accepted and
non. other will be notified, and, early as prac-
ucable, contract will be transmitted to Them
which they Will be required to execute within ten
DAYS aiel ITS receipt at the pest Office or navy agency
The form of Offer guarantee, and certificate is here
FORM OF OFFER.
Tor wei of -, State OF -, hereby agree to
furmsh and dehv. - thousand tons Of - an
OF - per ton OF 2240 pounds, amounting TO =
dollars, the whole in ioTmIty with the PROVISIONS
December 1866, from the Navy Department, and
Should my Tor Ourl offer Ibo accepted, Tor wei
tract may be forwarded to - for signatures and
certificates
(PaCeD (Signed) A, b.,
FORM OF GUARANTEE.
We, the undersigned residents -, in the
here by jointly and severaily covenant with the
United States, and guarantee that in the fore
going bid OF - lie accepted, -- will, within
len days after the receipt OF the contract at -,
execute the same, with GOOD and sufficient sureues
for the oelivery of the anthracite coal proposed in
compliance with the terms OF the advertisement OF
the 26th Dec mber, 1866, hereto appended and under
when 1t was made and IN case The said - shall
fail TO enter into the contract aforesaid we guaran
tee TO make good the difference between the offer OF
the sMd ---, and that winch may be accepted
ltness, (SiPnedl &. d.
(Flacel EF
(Datel
hereby certify that to the best of my knowledge
al belief, the abOVe-named guarantors, and
- are good and sufficient.
lSlgnedG G. II.
To be signed by the United States District sudge
United States District Attorney, Collector. or Navy
Agent. 70 26 tu4C