The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-25
PROPOSALS.
prof SAILS FOR LIVE oAR
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTORS AND REPAIR,

SEALED PROPOSALS for the delivery OF 2Os, zoe
cuoic ieet OF Live oak Timber of the best quality in
eacn OF the Navy.Yard at Chatlestown, Mass, and
Brooklyn, N. Y, will be received at this Bureau
until the sixth (6th) day Of December next
Ihese proposals must be endorsed proposals for
1--we 1--we OAK, that they may be distinguished from
The offers may be for one or both yards, but must
DC 1or the whole quantity in each yard and as re-
CURED oy law, must be accompanied by guar
sureties in the full estimated amount will be re-
CURED 10 sign the contract, and, as additional and
@ itbSed op ny Sgnnye t2Sl per Gentnm VIII
the contract is satisfactorily completed.
In ali the deliveries OF the timber there must be
pieces; otherwise there will be withheld such
further amount in addition to the 25 per centum as
may be judged eXpedeDt TO secure the public in-
teTest until such diflic1t portions be delivered.
The remaining is per centum, or other proportion
Of each bill, when approved in trip'icate by the
Commandant Of the yard, Will be paid by such
purchasing paymaster as the contractor may desg.
nate within thirty gO) days after its presentation
1t will be stipulated in the contract that IL etlI
made 10y the parties OF the first part in sllvern
all or any Of the timber named, of the quality aud
at the time and place provided then, aud in at
pay to the United States OF money not exceed.
ing twice the total amount therein agreed upon
the price to be paid in case OF the actual delivery
Act OF Congress in that case provided approved
The OCO cubic feet to be delivered in each yard
will be in the following proporttons:-Say 49, 600
cubic feet OF pieces suitable for stems, sternposts,
hooks, all siding from IL TO 20 inches and the hooks
siding Ii and 16 inches. These pieces to be in the
proportions in which they enter into the construc-
ton of a ship of war; conforming substantially i'm
shape, length, and character with those heretofore
received, with frames of corresponding siding the
noulds of which can be seen at any navy YARD;
GOO cubic feet OF the siding OF l3 aud 10 uches IN
OF siding Of II inches; all these pieces being in
length from ID to IL feet, with natural and fair
curve OF om IL to 80 inches or more in that length,
and one-half the number OF pieces to have from the
mean TO the greatest crook Also 80 600 cubic feet
OF timber siding 43 and IS inches, in length from II
All TO be sided straight and fair, and roughhewed
the moulding way TO show face OF not less than
two.ihrds the siding, the wane being deducted in
The timber to be cut from trees growing within
80 miles OF the sea- OF which satisfactory evidence
will be required and to be delivered in the respec-
tive yards at the risk and expense Of the contractor
subject to the usual inspection to the entire ap
proval of the Commandant of the yard
The whole quantity to be delivered within two
years from the date OF the contract.
Satisfactory evidence must be presented with each
proposal that the parties either have the timber or
are acquainted with the subject, and have the
In sddton to the above, separate "Sealed Pro-
pCsals" will be received at the same time, the
same terms and conditions and similarly endorsed,
from persons having the timber on hand already
cut, for the delivery in each of the navy yards at
Charlestown and Brooklyn, of from 3 to so s0C
cubic feet Of Live-oak, the principal pieces siding
ii 10 II inchef, the remaining portion IL and Il
being in the same proportion TO the quantity offered
as that specified in the first case, with the same
Tire whole amount contracted for In this case
must be delivered on or before the 1st February,
ISL.
and all bids for any timber under this advertisement
considered not to the int rest Of the Government
10 accept them, aud 10 require satisfactory evidence
that bids bona de in all respects, and are made
! by res ponsible persons
FORM OF OFFER,
(Which, II from r, must be signed By all the mem,
bert)
| Tor wel of - in the State of -
| hereby agree to furnish and deliver in the United
thousand cubic feet of Live-oak timber, in CON
y 3 Rf kp u Tie dae fGa o
........ cubic feet, suitable for principal
pieces, at g per foot 80. e........
....... cubic feet, curved timber, at
g per foot .........-...... ........
cubic feet timber, at s-perft ........
.......... Total quantity. Total value. .........
(The total ralue to be Rkeiotse orittea in ftl1
Should ny (Or our oIer be accepted, (Or lce) re-
Quest to be addressed at t-- ana the Contract
ton at --- for signature and certificate.
tssnaturel' A'B. AA'BB.
witness:
FORM OF GUARANTEE.
,nd the stSIs undersigned rs --o an3 OF -, in in
- -, in the State Of -, hereby
| guarantee that, III case the foregoing bid OF
| --- is accepted, he (Or then viii, within
ten days after the receipt of the contract at he post
! office named, or by the Paymaster OF the Naval
Station desig' ated, execute the contract for the
same with good and sufficient sureties; and in case
| said --- shalf fail to enter into contract as
| aforesaid, we guarantee to make good the difler-
| ence between the offer of the said --- and
| that which may be accepted.
| Date ---.
| [Sjgnaturesl c. D.
E. +.
| witness:
Each OF the guarantors must be certified by the
| Assessor of Internal Revenue for the district in
| which the parties are assessed. IL 1aw4w
DRoPosALs FOR THE ERECTION OF PUI
| i Lie BUILDINGS.
OFFICE OF THE CoMMISS IoEERs FOR THE
| ERECTION OF TIE PUBLIC BUILDINGS,
| PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3, 1870. J
Proposals will be received at the Oilice of tht
| President of the Commission, No. 129 S. SEVENTH
Street, until November 30 1870, for items one, tl1O
| and three, and until December 81, 1870, for the
balance of the schedule for the following materials
ana labor:-
l. For carefully removing the iron ralings and
stone base from the four Enclosures at Broad and
Market Streets and depositing the same in order
upOn such portions of the adjacent grounds as the
commissioners may select.
q for removing the trees and clearing the ground.
| 8. For the lumber and labor for the erection OF o
board fence twelve Q2 feet in height, with gates to
incose the space occupied by Penn Squares, per
lineal foot, complete.