The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-02
PROPOSALS..
pRoPosALs FOR NAVAL MATERIAL
NAVY DEPARTMENT.,
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING

BUREAU OF EouPMENT AND REoRUITINe,
SEALED PROPOSALS to furnish material for the
Navy for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1871, will be
received at this Bureau until 10 O'Clock A. nj. OF tho
18th OF August next, at which time the proposals win
The proposals must be addressed to the "Chief Of
the Bureau OF Equipmen and Recruiting, Navy
Department, Washington and must be Endorsed
proposals for Materials 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 guarantee, and OF certificates Of guarantors, viii
be furnished TO such persons as desire to bid on ap-
plication to the commandants OF the respective
navy yards, and those Of all the yards on application
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 may
Judge whether it 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 or for the ex-
animation Of samples must be made to the COM
mandants of the respective yards.
The proposals must be accompanied by a certif-
cate from the Collector OF Internal Revenue for the
district in which the bidder resides that he has a
license to deal in the articles for which he proposes,
and he must further show that he is a manufacturer
OF or a regular dealer in the articles which he offers
to supply. The guarantors must be certified by the
Assessor 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-
reserying the right to reject the lowest bid or any
which 1t 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
withheld from the amount of the bills until the con-
tract shall have been completed, and eighty per
centum Of the amount of each bill, approved in
triplicate by the Commandant OF the respective
yards, will be paid by the Paymaster OF the station
designated in the contract in funds or certificates,
at the option Of the Government, 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 de-
sigDated as fonows:-
No. FLAX Canvas, etc. NC. 19-Soap and Tallow.
No. 2-Cotton Canvas, etc. No. 14-OX hides for rope.
No. 3-Cotton hammock No. 16-Brushes.
Bag and Cot stan. No. 16-Shlp Cnandiery.
No. 4-Iron and Steel. No. 17-Tar and Tar Oh.
No. 5-Galley Iron. No. 1S-Stattonery.
No. 7-Chain Iron. No. 19-Dry Goods.
No. s-Hardware. No. 20~-Flrewood emo
No. 9-Cooking Utensils. coal.
No. 11-Tin and Zinc. No. 2l-Sand.
No. 12-Leather.
CHARLEST0WN NAVY YARD.
Classes Nos. 2, 3, 4, $, 9, IL, 10, Ia, 10, &c. Il,
BROOKLYN, NEW
Classes Nos. /, 2, 8, 8, 0, II, 10, 10, 1e, II, is, ls,
20, 81. -
Classes Nos. 2, 8, IL, 10, u, IS, 10, 20.
WASHINGTON.
Glasses Nos. 2, 4, s. 8 Z 3, II, ~, 10, 10, II, Is, 20.
Glasses Nos. :, 9, 8, 9, II, u, 10, 10, IL, II, Is, 10, ~
PORTSMOUTH, N. II.
Classes Nos. 2, s, u, 10, 16, II, IS. ls, 20,
q, 712 tu4W