Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-20
TO CONTRACTORS.
BbHNP0sAI.S FOX MATERIALS
d TO BE SUPPLIED TO TIL f. NAVY-YARDS,
UNDER THE COGNIZANCE OF THE BU
REAU OF STEAM ENGIN EERING.
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BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING,

BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING,
WASHINGTON, d. C, June 49, 1861
Sealed proposals to furnish Materials for the Navy
for the isca! year ending June 80. 1867 will be re-
18th of July next at which time tho proposals will
The proposals must be addressed ia the Chief of the
Bureau OF Steam Engineering. Navy Department,
WASHINGTON, and must be endorsed, Proposals for
Materials for the Navy" that they may be distin-
Printed schedules for any class together with in
structions to bidders giving the forms of proposal of
guarantee, ana OF certificates of guarantOTs, will be
furnished to such persons as desire to bid on app
cation to the commandments of the respective navy
yards, and these OF all the yards application to the
Bureau.
The Commandant of each navy yard and the Pur-
chasing Paymaster of each station will have copy
Of tho 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 information or for the examna-
ton OF Sa rlTles must be made to the Commandments
of the respective yards
The proposal must be accompanied by Il certificate
from the Collector Of Internal Revenue for the dis
rict 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. Tho Guarantors must be certified by the As
s9r OF Internal Revenue for the district in which
The contract will be awarded to the person who
makes the lowest bid and gives the guarantee re-
CURED by law. the Navy Department, however, re-
serving the right to reject the lowest bid or any
which it may deem exorbitant.
Sure5ies in the full amount will he 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
withheld from tho amount of the bills until the
contract shall have been completed and eighty per
centnm of the amount of each bill, approved in tip
licate by the commandant of the respective yards,
will be pad by the paymaster of the station desig-
option OF the dovernment 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 desig-
mated follows
No. /, Boiler Iron, &c. No 81 Zinc Paint
No. = zig Iron No. y, COlored Paints, &c
No. d. Gum Packing, &c. No 81 Firewooi
NO O. 9perh " No. 70, Il C kory, Ash
No. s. Linsee ed, Oil Plank, &c.
no. j. Lard o'll No. 70 White Pine
10 8 Lumber c., NO y, Black Walnut and
No. y Ialiow ana Soap Cherry
No. TO- Engineers Stores No. % Mahogany
70. II, Engineers Too's No. %, Lanterns
No. IL Engineers InStru- No. 30, Lignumyita
No. 10. Brick. Sand. &c. &c. 'S''-S' l D'-p'
No. Il, " : & b Iron No. 3d. eour Flour CRU
No. Is. Tubes No. 80. Patented Articles
10. 10, Steei No. 81, Cotton and Hemp
No. u, Nails and Bolts Packing &c.
70 20 "copper" no. $, Engineers Stores |
70. dS' IN. Zine. &c. No. &c. Patented Articles |
The following the classes. by their numbers.
required at tho FosPfSiitfjTfsg NV Yards
Nos. l. 2, S, 6. II, IS, 70. 20, Il D. %, 80, a.
%, Nos 70 Il. H. IA, Is, 16. It. 49, 49, 90 q,
~ 80 '-' 90 BROOKLYN.
90 N $S J. j 6. TO- T. H. Is. 10, 90 81 25 g. q.
PHILADELPHIA.
Nos g. 10 4 II Il e Is 49, o. 49, &C. 49,
Nos s. TO- H. r. ID. IA. 10, 16. H. 49, 49, 90
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