The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-19
PROPOSALS.
DRoPosALs FOR NAVAL MATERIAL
NAVY DEPARTMENT.,
BUREAu OF EQCIPMEHT AND RECRUrTfNG


BUREAU or EQUIPMENT AND REcRrtvISG,S
SEALED PROPOSALS to furnish TS mater tel al for the
Navy for the scal year ending June 3d. 1871, will be
ceived at this Bureau until 10 O'Clock A. NJ OF the
9TH of August next at which time the proposals will
The proposals must be addressed to the tUhief OF
the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting Navy
Department, Washington and must be Endorsed
Proposals for Materials for the Navy" that thev
may be dist nguished from other business letters.
Printed schedules for any class together with In
structtons to BIDDERS giving the forms OF proposal,
OF guarantee, and Of certificates OF Ruarantors wl
be furnished TO sucn persons desire TO bid ap-
pication to the cominandants of the respective
navy yards and thuse OF all the yards on application
The Commandant of each navy yard and the pur-
chasing Paymaster of each station will have copy
OF the schedules uf 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 CON-
mandants Of the respective yards.
The proposals must be accompanied by certG-
cate from the Collector OF Internal Revenue foy 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 manufacturer
of or regular dealer in the articles which he offers
to supply. The guarantors must be certified by the
Assessor of Internal Revenue for the distrctn which
The contract will be awarded to the person who
makes the lowest bid and gives the guarantee
quired by law, the Navy Department, however,
Teservng the right to reject the lowest bid any
which it may deem eXorDitant.
sign the contract and their responsibility 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
tract shall have been completed, and eighty per
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-
sigpated as follows:-
No. FLAX Canvas, etc. No 13-Soap anG Tallow.
No. 2-Coton Canvas etc. No 14-OX hides for rope.
| No. 3-Cotton hammock No. 15-Brushes.
Bag and Cot stan. No. 16-Ship CaaAdlery.
| No. 4-Iron and Steel No. 11-Tar and Tar Oil.
! No. 5-Galey Iron. No. 1S-Stationery.
| No. I-Chain Iron. No. 19-Dry Goods.
No. s-Hardware. No 20-Frewood aud
No 9-Cooking Utensils. coal.
| No 11-Tin and Zinc. No, 2l-Sand
! No. 12--Leather.
| CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD.
Glasses Nos. 2, 3, 4, S, Q, II, 49, IL, is, 16, II,
! is, 20. -
Glasses Nos l, 2, 3, s. O. ~, 13, Is, 49, II, 49, 19
| 20, 21.
| PHILADELPHIA.
! Glasses Nos 2, 8, IL, 16, II, Is, 10, 20.
| WASHINGTON.
Glasses Nos g. H. g. 7, s. IL, 12, 49, 16, II, Is, 90
| NORFOLK.
Glasses Nos 2, 8, g. H. 12 13, Is, 16 H. 49, 49, 90
| PORTSMOUTH, n. ii.
! Glasses Nos. p s, IL, lS, 16, IL, Is, 19, 90
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