The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-12
BUREAU OF coSsTycTION AND REPAIR, !


BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.
WAsHNGToN, ID. G., July ID, 1870.
SEALED PROPOSALS to furnish Timber and
other materials for the Navy for the fiscal year end
ing June s0, 1871, viii be received at this Bureau
until IL o'clock M. OF the 10Th of August next at
which time the proposals Will be opened.
The proposals must be addressed 70 the Chief OF
paItment, washington, and must be indorsed '.Pro-
pOsals for Timber, etc, for the Navy" that they may
be distinguished from other business letters.
Printed schedules for such classes as parties deal
in and intend to bid for, together with instructions
to bidders giving the forms OF proposals guarantee
adof certificate Of guarantors, with printed forms
Of offer, will be furnished to such persons as desire
to bid, on application to the Commandants OF the
respective Navy Yards and those Of all the yards
The Commandant of each Navy Yard and the pur-
of the schedules OF the other yards for examination
only, in order that persons who intend to bid NAV
Judge whether 1t is desirable to make application for
any of the classes of those yards.
The proposals must be for the whole of a class and
all applications for information for the examina-
ton OF samples must be made to the oommandants
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 acense
to deal in the articles for which he proposes; and
by direction of the Department, bids offers t0iH be
received onl from parties Uho are bona fde dealers in
manufacturers Of the articles they offer 10 furnish
The guarantors must be certified by the Assessor OF
Internal Revenue for the district in which they
side.
The contract will be awarded to the person who
quired by law, the Navy Department, however re-
serving the right to reject the lowest bid, or any
which 1t may deem exorbtant
Surettes in the full amount will be required to sign
the contract, and their responsibility must be certi-
fed to the satisfaction of the Navy Department
AS additional security twenty per centum viii be
withheld from the amount of the bills until the con-
tracts shall have been completed, and eighty per
centum OF the amount OF each bill, approved In tri-
plicate by the Commandant OF the respective yards
will be paid by the Paymaster Of the station desg
mated in the contract within ten days after the war
rant for the same shall have been passed by the
Secretary OF the Treasury.
The classes OF this Bureau are numbered and de-
No. l, White OAK Logs; No. 8, White Oak Curved
Logs No s. Yellow Pine Beams No. D. YeIiow w Pine Pine
White Pine Mast Timber; No. ls, White Pine Plank
| White Ash Oars; No. II, Hickory; No. is Black
Walnut, Mahogany, Maple, Cherry No. 20, Locust
spruce No White oak staves and Headings S Sack
| No. rs, Lignumvita; No. 30 Ingot Copper; No. 32
%5SuSs 5S as Iron HO % Guhd dn and Sas nj 80 ss
Iron Spikes; No Ss, Iron Wrought Nails; No. 80,
Iron Cut M Nails IL No. NJ ~ Lead pipe Sheet No
Hinges Bolts, Of brass and iron; No. 40, Screws, Of
brass and iron No so, Files No 81, Augers; No So,
and shops No. 81, Hardware; No. 56 White Lead ;
No. 81, Zinc Paints; No 5s, Colored Paints, dryers
tine; No. 6s, Sperm and Lard on; No GA, Taliow,
Soap; No. 6s, Glassi No. SO, Brushes; No. 20, Dry
tor Sd Mo- Sn Stationery No
Crude Turpentine; No. II, Betting, Packing; No rs,
Leather, pump rigging lacing; No. so, junk No. S.
| Charcoal
The following are the classes, by the numbers, re.
! quired at the respective navy-yards:- =
| KTTTERY.
Nos. 8, 13, Is, 16 H. IS, %, 49, 49, 35 49, A. 49, 40
So 81, So, 81, ST. 6s &c. So, 6s 3d. II, 49, "a 7s ss
CHARLESTOWN.
ss a. g. So S. g. s. s. s., s. S. IS, S. S. 60 60
60, "a, IS, 60, 20, II, 70, "a, IS, u, rs, ss.
BROOKLYN.
Nos. l, T. 9, 49, 15 49, II, 1s, 20, "a 25 49, 49, 34 81
&c. az, 43, "A, 4s 49, So 81 So 49, 81 So 81 5S So GO
60, "a, IS, SO, 70, Il, 73, "A, rs, II, so, So.
! PHILADELPHIA.
Nos. 4, I, Q, l3, IS, ls, 80. 33, As. II.
| = WASHINGTON.
Nos. l., T. II, 12 13, H. 49, 90 22 49, 30 49, 49, 81
S5 81, SO, 49, A. 49, As, 49, So 81, 53 ST. 81 S. 3d. 60
90, 64, 6s, 80, 20, Il, 70, "a, II, Is, SO.
NORFOLK.
Nos. 49, IS, 49, ~ 25 49, 49, 49, 49, a. As, 49, so, So
54 81, 5s, SO, 60, SO, GA, 50, 20, Il, Is, II, 1S
MARE ISLAND.
Nos. IS, 49, 49, 33, "a, 35, 49, &c. 49, 49, H. 49, 49, so
81 90, "a, &c. ST. IS, 60, Ga g. 50, 70, H. 49, "A, II
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