The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-03
PROPOSALS.
A NTHRACITE COAL FOR THE NAVY
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING,

| 'TAO VI N0OiFmhNN AND iNhChUIIlN0, 2
Sealed Proposals for furnishing Anthracite
Ooal Tor the Navy, to be delivered during the
fiscal year ending 3Oth June 1868. will se re-
| cslNed at this bureau until 10 A. M, 24th June,
These proposals must be endorsed "Proposals
| for Anthracite Coal for Steamers that they
| may be distinguished from other business
Tue offer @ must be for the delivery Of 10000
| tons, OF 2240 pounds.
The ccal must be OF the best Buck Mountain
| or Black Heath, or OF n Kind equal to them In
oi respects Tor the purpose Intended, which
| pointed by the Secretary of the Navy after tue
! reception of the bids.
| The name of the coal prOposed 10 be furnished
| must be stated in the offer
1t is to be delivered in Jumps OF suitable size
| selected free from Impurities, unmixed. of
which the contractor will be required To furnish
such evidence as will be satisfactory, and be
subject to such inspection as TO QUALITY and
! quantity as the Department may direct The
coal must in all respects be satisfactory TO the
inspector or inspectors to be appointed by tine
Bureau, who will have the right OF peremptory
The coal is TO be delivered on board OF vessels
az such places In the port of Philadelphia as
may be designated by the Bureau, and in such
| quantities, and at such times as in the opinion
OF the Bureau, the exigencies of the service
may require, commencing when the vessel Is
reported ready TO receive cargo; furnishing, IL
dt tmanded, not less than GOO tons per day, TO be
1ls,Iipnted PIT TO each vessel as may be directed.
Proposals will likewise be received for the de-
iIVery Oh izOOO TONS Of the same quality of coal.
board vessels, as at hiladelphia
In the case Of failure to deliver the coal in
proper quantity or the proper quality, and at
the proper time and place, the Bureau will re-
serve IN the contract the right to purchase
forthwith, at the contractors risk and EXPENSE
mat WHEN may seem necessary to supply the
Any demurrage or other charges to which the
Navy Department may be subjected from DELAY
in the prompt delivery of the coal by the cons
tractors, Will be deducted from their bills
The price must be for the coal delivered on
board vessels, on the. terms and conditions
pense, and without extra charge of any kind
The offer, as required by law, must be accom-
or more responsible persons to the effect that
they undertake that the bidder or bidders WILL
II ms or their bid be accepted, enter into obli-
cation, at such time as may be prescribed by
the Bureau, with good and sufficient securities,
TO furnish the supplies proposed.
No proposition will be considered unless
accompanied by such guarantee; and the De-
offers, II considered TO be to the interest of the
service TO do SO.
Two or more sureties each in a sum equal To
10 lhe amount specified To be paid, will be
required TO sign the contract, and their respon-
ternal Revenue OF the District.
AS additional and collateral security twenty
per cent. Will be withheld from the amount of
all payments, which reservation is not to be
pald except by authority of 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 be
due upon each bill, win, when proper GER
tihcate is furnished by the Inspector, and the
bin approved by the Bureau, be paid by such
nay navy agents @ as the contractor may name.
shall have been passed by the Secretary OF the
1t will be stipulated In the contract that If de-
fault be made In the delivery of the coal, in the
quantity or the quality and at the place and time
the contractor and his sureties viii forfeit and
pay to the United States, as liquidated damages,
sum OF money not exceeding twice the cons
tract price, which may be recovered from time
TO time, according to the act or acts of Congress
Bidders, whose proposals shall be accented.
and none other, Will be notified, and as early
them which they Will be required to eXecnfe
within ten days after its receipt at the post oice
The form OF offer, guarantee, and certificate is
herewith given;-
1 (or wei Of, State r.. hereby agree
to furnish and deliver - - Thousand tons Of
-, at the rate of per ton of 22IO ponnnds- n ss
amounting TO - dollars, the whole In con-
advertisement of the 9th day of May, 1857. from
the Navy Department,and hereunto appended
request 10 be informed at and thai the
contract may be forwarded to - for sigma
lures and certificates.
(Datej
FORM OF GUARANTEE.
We, the undersigned residents of -,
State 81 hS state q hereby ony d Of and n the
covenant with the United States, @ and Guarantee %
that In case the foregoing bid OF - be ao-
eeptfedt 80 - ,n will, within ten days after the
same, with good and sufficient sureties for the
delivery of the Anthracite Coal proposed, in
compliance with the terms of the ADVERTISE
ment of the 9th May 1867, hereto appended,
and under which II was made and in case the
said ~ shall fail to enter into the contract
aforesaid, we guarantee TO make good the dif-
ference between the offer of the said - ana
that which may be accedted.
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(Daie.)
FORM OF CERTIFICATE AS TO GUARANToRs.
OFFICE OF THE ASSESSOR OF INTERNAL REVE-l
NUE FOR THE - DISTRICT OF rHE%5rATE
BE il known, That on this - day OF -
A. d., IS, at my Office above named.
and -, the guaTantoTs named in the fore
going guarantee and known to me as such,
seVerally appeared and made oath that they
are worth, respectively, above all Indebtedness,
the sums set against their several names, as fol-
lows, viz-
=@E;
And hereby certify that by the books and
records IN this Office it appears that said parties,
at the last annual assessment of In ternalrevenue
IN this revenue district, to wit, on the - day
perry and income OF the following value, VIII
the said - -, s., the said -
q mat G. H., Assessor
TMPRoV VEMENT OF THE ROCK
J. ISLAND RAPIDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI
RIVER.
UNITED STATES ENeINEER's OFFICE,
DAVENPORT, Iowa, April IL, 1867. !
otfice until u M. MLDHl lf5DAY June 1857 Tor ex-
lions rom he bed OF the Mississippi the Rock
Island or Upper Rapids, by means OF Golfer dams and
1o'tTacIors viii be required 10 furnish all boats
machinery, etc, and 70 perform al the labor necea
fyo cnbic wards TO be removed distriblIod