The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-17
PROPOSALS..
RoPosALs FoR LIVE OAK
NAVY DEPARTMENT..
NM UHTAHTMENT,
BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAiR,

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR
SEALED PROPOSALS for the delivery = Of sOs, 900
cubic feet OF Live oak Timber, OF the best quality in
Ssch ol the Navy Yards at ChaIestown Mass, and
until the sixth Csth) day OF December next
These proposals must be endorsed proposals for
Live OAK that they may be distinguished from
other business letters.
The offers may be for one or both yards, but must
be for the whole quantity in each yard and, as re-
quired by law, must be accompanied by guar
sureties in the full estimated amount win be re-
quired To sign the contract, and, as additional and
collateral security twenty-five (25) per centum will
be withheld on the amount OF each delivery until
the contract is satisfactorily completed.
In ali the deliveries of the timber there must be
q due proportion OF the most dimcult and crooked
pieces; otherwise there will be withheld such
further amount in addition to the 25 per centum
may be judged expedient TO secure the public Ia
teIest until such difficult portions be delivered.
The II manning IS per centum, or other proportion
OF each bill, when approved in tr1plicate by the
Commandant Of the yard, VIII be paid by such
purchasing paymaster as the contractor may desg-
nate within thirty (3V days after its presentation
1t will be stipulated in the contract that if default
made by the parties OF the first part In delivering
all or any OF the timber named, OF the quality and
at the time and place provided, then, and in that
case the contractor and his sureties viii forfeit and
pay TO the United States sum OF money not exceed
ing twice the total amount therein agreed upon as
the price to be paid In case OF the actual delivery
thereof which may be recovered according to the
Act OF Congress in that case provided approved
The cubic feet to be delivered In each yard
will be In the following proportions Say 33, 900
cubic feet OF pieces suitable for stems, sternposts,
deadwoods, aprons sternpost knees keesons, aud
hooks all siding from II to 20 inches, and the hooks
siding Ia and l6 inches. These pieces to be in the
proportions In which they enter into the cOnstruc
ton OF a ship of war; conforming substantially in
shape, length, and character with those heretofore
received, with frames of corresponding siding the
moulds OF which can be seen at any navy yard;
1870 Geo cubic feet OF the siding OF 13 ant 10 inches
about equal quantities of each, and 10000 cnbic feet
of a siding OF II inches all these pieces being in
length from Is to IL feet with natural aud fair
curve OF from 12 to so inches OF more in that length
number
mean to the greatest crook. Also 90, 900 cubic feet
OF timber siding 43 and Is inches, in length from II
! to 20 feet.
All to be sided straight and fair, and rough-hewed
! the moulding way to show face OF not ess than
! twOthirds the siding, the wane being deducted in
| The timber to he cut from trees growing within
| 80 niles 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, and 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 tmberor
are acquainted with the subject, and have the
| facility TO procure 1t.
In addition to the above, separate "seaed Pro-
| pcsals" will be received at the time, on the
! same terms and conditions and similarly endorsed,
| from persons having the timber on hand already
Cha ChsesoWn I and Brooklyn, Of from to SO 600
| cubic feet OF Live-oak, the principal pieces siding
to Il the s es peaes nR 9oro 9 ana
being in the same proportion to the quantity offered
| as that specified in the first case, with the same
The whole amount contracted for in this case
must be delivered on or before the 1st February,
| The Department reserves the right to reject any
and all bids for any timber under this advertisement
II considered not to the int rest OF the Government
to accept the aud to require satisfactory evidence
that bids are bona tide in all respects and are made
| by responsible persons
FORM OF OFFER,
(Which, il from rna, must be signed by all the
Gel
I(or we), of -, in the State of --,
hereby agree to furnish and deliver in the United
States Navy Yard at -7,
thousand cubic feet OF Live-osk timber, in con-
formlty with the advertisement OF the Bureau OF
Construction and Repair Of the date OF November
......'. cubic feet suitable for principal
| pieces, at s. per foot. S.......
........ cubic feet curved TIMBER at
| S-pe foot. ................. ........
cubic feet timber, at s. per IT. ........
......... Total quantity. Total value. .........
(The total value to be Hke,oise ,Oritten in fulL)
Should my (or our oher be accepted (Or 1os) re-
to the Purchasing Paymaster OF the Naval Sta
tiOn at t-- Tor signature and certificate.
lsisnaturel' AZ. A
FORM OF GUARANTEE
The undersigned -- of --, In
the State Of n the state "a and 6sre69 OF
guarantee that in case the foregoing bid Of
| --- is accepted, he Or then will, within
days after the receipt OF the contract at The post
| Office named, by the Paymaster OF the Naval
Station desig ated, execute the contract for the
same with good and sufficient sureties and in case
said --- shall fail to enter into contract as
aforesaid, we guarantee to make good the differ
| ence between the offer OF the said --- and
that which may be accepted.
|
LSignaturesl G. 2.
Witness:
Each OF the guarantors must be certified by the
| Assessor OF Internal Revenue for the district il
which the parties are assessed. IL 1aW4H
DROPoSALS FOR THE ERECTION OF PUB
! i Lie BUILDINGS.
OFFICE OF THE CoMAISs I0EERS FOR THE
ERECTION OF TEE PUBLIC BUILDINGS,
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3, 1870.
Proposals will be received at the once OF the
President OF the Commission, No. l29 S. SEVENTH
Street, until November 30 1870, for items one, tDo
and three. and until December 81, 1870, for the
balance OF the schedule, for the following materials
and labor:-
l. For carefully removing the iron ratings ant
stone base from the four Enclosures at Broad and
& Market streets, and depositiDg the in Ordel
upon such portions OF the adjacent grounds as the
Commissioners may select.
2. for removing the trees and clearing the ground
g. For the lumber and labor for the erection OF
board fence twelve az feet in height, with gates tC
, | nclose the space occupied by Penn Squares, pei
lneal foot, complete.