The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-12
PROPOSALS..
DRoPosAIs FOR NAVAL MATERIAL
BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT i ANo 10 REoR1rrrSe,

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING,
SEALED PROPOSALS TO furnish material Tor the
Navy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, will be
received at this Bureau until 10 O'Clock A. NJ Of the
5th Of August next at which tune the proposals will
The proposals must be addressed to the 'Chief of
the Bureau OF Equipment and Recruiting Navy
Department. Washington" and must be indorsed
proposals for Materials for the Navy" that they
may be dist nguished from other business letters.
Printed schedules for any class together with in-
sructons to bidders giving the forms OF proposal,
OF guarantee, and OF certificates OF guarantors will
be furnished to such persons desire to bid on ap
plication to the commandants OF the respective
navy yards, and those OF all the yards application
The Commandant of each navy yard and the pur-
chasing Paymaster OF each station will have copy
OF the schedules OF the other yards for examination
only, in order that persons who intend to bid may
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 ali applications for information or for the
animation of samples must be made to the Com
mandants OF the respective yards
The proposals must be accompanied by certid-
district IN which the bidder resides that he has
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 disricin which
The contract will be awarded to the person who
makes the lowest bid and gives the guarantee re-
quired by law, the Navy Department, however,
reserving the right to reject the lowest bid or any
which it may deem exorbtant
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
tripcate by the Commandant OF the respective
yards, will be paid by the Paymaster of the station
designated in the contract in funds 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 foows:- ......
No. FLAX Canvas, etc. No. 13-Soap ana Tallow.
No 2-Cotton Canvas, etc No. 14-OX hides for rope.
No. 3-Cotton hammock No. 15-Brushes.
Bag and Cot STAFF. No. 16-Ship Cnandlery.
No. 4-Iron and Steel. No. 1T-Tar and Tar Oil.
No. 5-Galley Iron. No. 1S-Stationery.
No 7-Chan Iron No. 19--Dry Goods
No. s-Hardware No. 20-F.Tewood and
No. 9-Cooking Utensils coal.
No. 11-Tin and Zinc. No. 2l-Sand.
No. 12-Leather.
CHARLESTOwN NAVY YARD
Glasses Nos. 2, g. 4, s, 0, IL, 1s, ID, is, 16, II,
Is, 90
Classes Nos l. p 3, s, Q, II, l3, Is, Is, H. IS 10,
20, 21.
Classes Nos p 3 MiHsRNar6N' n III Il Fsj H. 20
Glasses Nos. 2, rs, IL, l2 19, 16, II, 49, 90
NORFOLK.
Glasses Nos O. s. 0, II, IL, 49, 49, IL, II, 49, 49, 90
PORTSMOUTH, n. ii.
Glasses Nos. 2, s, ~, l3, l6, II, IS, 49, 20,
21. Z IL tu4w