Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-06-02
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, !
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.
WASHINGTON, June 4, 1866.
| SEALED PROPOSALS to furnish Materials for
the Navy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1857,
will be received at this Bureau until 10 o'clock A NJ.
OF the ID 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 be distinguished from other business letters.
Printed schedules for any class. together with in
structions to bidders giving the forms of proposal of
guaranty, and of certificate Of euaranters will be
furnished to such persons desire to bid on appli
cation to the Commandments of the respective navy
Yards. and those OF all the yards application to
Inc Bureau.
The Commandant of each navy yard and the Pur-
chasing Paymaster of each station will have copy
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 applications for information, or for the examine
ton of SAMPLES. must be made to the Commandments
OF the respective yards.
The proposal must be accompanied by certificate
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 a manufacturer of or
regular dealer in. the articles which he offers to sup
ply. The guarantors must be certified by the As
SCISSORS Of Internal Revenue for the district in which
they reside.
The contract will bo awarded to the person who
the lowest bid and gives the guaranty required
by law, the Navy Department. however, reserying
the right TO reject the lowest bid for any which it
may deem exOrbitant.
Sureties 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 coz
tract shall have been completed, and eighty per
centum of the amount of each bill, approved in
triplicate by the Conmandant 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 ]. Flax, Canvas, Irvine No 16. Ash and Beech
No 2. Cotton. Canvas d Plank.
Irvine. No 49, Tallow.
No 3. Iron and Steel. No 20. Brushes
No 4. Tin and Zinc. No q. Stationery.
No 5. Sperm Oil. No %. Hardware.
No 6. Paints and Oils. No a. Ship Chandlery.
No 10. Leather. mo 81. Whale Oil, &c.
No II. Gun Hose. No 80. Galley Iron.
No y. Lignumvite. No 50. Pig Iron.
No Is. Lanters No 81. Chain Iron.
No II. Ok Hides.
The following the glasses, by eirnumbers re-
quired at the respective navy yards:
kITTERY-NOs. !, 2. 4, 6, u, Ii. "a.
CHARLESTOWN-l, ,, 3, 4, 5. 6. II, IA, t. IS, %,
"a, 81
BROOKLYN-1.2 2, 5, 6. 10. 16. %. a.
PHILADELPHIA-l, 2 3, 4, 3, 6, 10, Il, Is, 90 q,
WASHINGToN-1. 246.n. 10. %. 80. 80. "a.