Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-04
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

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NAVY DEPARTMENT, !
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.
WASHINGTON, June 4, 1865
SEALED PROPOSALS to furnish Materials for
the Navy for the fiscal year ending June 30 1857,
of the 81 day of July next, at which time the pro-
posals will be opened
The proposals must be addressed to the Chief of
the Bureau of Equipment and recruiting Navy De
partment, Washington, and must be endorsed, Pro-
posals for Materials. &c, for the Navy that they
may DO distinguished from other business letters.
Printed schedules for any class, together with in
structons bidders, giving the forms of proposal of
guaranty, and Of certificate Of guarantors, will be
FURNISHED to such persons as desire to bid. on app
cation to the COmmandants 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 Paymaser of each station will have a 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 class; and
al IMPLICATIONS for Information, or for the examine
ton of samples. must be made to the Commandments
OF the respective yards
from the Collector Of Internal Revenue for the dis
rct in which the bidder 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 the As
Of Internal Revenue for the district in which
they reside.
The contract will be awarded to the person who
Lne lowest gives the
by law, the Navy Department however. reserving
the right to reject the lowest bid for any which it
may dean eXOrbtant.
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
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 Paymaster of the station
designated in the contract in funds of certificates at
the option of the Government within ten 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 l6. Ash and Beech
No q Cotton, Canvas X Plank.
Irvine. No 49, Talow.
No g. Iron and Steel. No 90 Brushes.
No 4. Tin and Zinc. No % Stationery.
No S. Sperm Oil. No %. Hardware.
No g. Paints and Oils. No 81. Ship Chandery.
No TO. Leather. mo 81. Whale Oil, &c.
No II. Gun Hose. No 80 Galley Iron.
No II. LigGumvtse. No 30. Pig Iron.
No IS. Lantets. No 81. Chain Iron.
No IA. Ok Hides.
The following are the classes by their numbers, re-
quired at the respective navy yards:
KITTE&Y-Nos. l, 2. 4, g. Il, l6 q.
CHI ARLESTOWN-l, ., 3, 4, S. 6, y, H. IL, Is, %,
BRooKLYN-1.2, 8. 6, 10, 16. %, "a.
PH1LADELPHIA-1,2 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, 10, II, 49, 20, p,
iWASHINGToN-1. 246, II, IS. %, 81, 80, "a.