Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-05
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.
BUREAU OF EoUIPMENT AND REcRUITINg.
SEALED PROPOSALS to furnish Materials rails for
the Navy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1867,
will be received at this Bureau until 10 o'clock 4 NJ
OF the I'd day Of July next. at which time the pro-
p9sGis will be opened.
tho Bureau of Equipment and recruiting. Navy Do
partment, Washington, and must be endorsed, PRO
posal3 for Materials. &c. for the Navy, that they
may be distinguished from other business letters.
Printed schedules for any class, together with in
structons to bidders giving the forms of proposal of
guaranty, and of certificate of guarantors. will be
cation to the Commandments of the respective navy
yards and those of all the yards on application to
the Bureau.
The Commandant of each navy yard and the Pur-
chasing Paymaster of each station Will have copy
OF the schedules of the other yards for examination
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 information. for the examina
ton of samples. must be made to the Commandments
The proposal must be accompanied by a certificate
from the Collector OF Internal Revenue for the dis
trct in which the hidde resides that he has license
to deal in the articles for which he proposes; and he
must further show that he is manufacturer of. or
regular dealer in, the articles which he offers to sup
ply. The guarantors must be certified by tho As
SCISSORS 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 guaranty required
t5y law, the Navy Department, however, reserving
may deem exorbitant.
Suretes 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 additional security twenty per centum will be
withhold from the amount of the bills until the con-
tract shall have been completed, and eighty per
centum of the amount Of each bill, approved in
triplicate by the Commandant of the respective
yard, will be paid by the Paymaser of the station
designated in the contract in funds of certificates at
the option of the Government within days after
the warrant for the shall have been passed by
the Secretary of the Treasury,
The classes of this Bureau are numbered and
designated as follows:
No l. Flax Canvas. Irvine No 16. Ash and Beech
No 2. Cotton, Canvas i Plank.
Irvine. No 1s. Tallow.
No 2. Iron and Steel. No 20. Brushes
No /. Tin and Zinc. No q. Stationery.
No 5. Sperm Oil. No o. Hardware.
No 6. Paints and Oils. No 81 Ship ChandIery.
No 10. Leather. mo 81 Whale Oil, &c
No II. Gun Hose No %. Galley Iron.
No II. Lignumvtae. No So. Pig Iron.
No l3. Lanters No a. Chain Iron.
No IA. Ok Hides.
The following the classes by their numbers re-
quired at the respective navy yards
KITTERY-Nos. l, 2. 4, s, Il. Is, o.
CHARLESTOWN-l. ,, 5, 4, 5, 8. u, a, l6. IS, %,
BR0oKLYN-1.2 .. 8, 6. 10, IS, q, "a.
PHILADELPHIA 3. 4. S. 6, 10. r. 49, %. o.
Observation-Disclosures %. 80. So. 81.