The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-15
PROPOSALS.,
DRoPosALs FOR CLOTHING AND CLOTHING
Il MATERIALS,
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
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NAVY DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLoTHTNG,
Sealed Proposals, lndorsed proposals for Cloth
ing" viii be received at this Bureau until O'Clock
p on the 2ltn day OF July 1870, for the supply Of
$4,000 yards Dark Blue Flannel.
10000 yards Blue Nankin.
10000 yards Barnsley sheeting.
$4,000 pairs Woollen Socks.
5000 pairs Calf Shoes.
1900 pairs Kip Shoes,
The aforementioned articles must be delivered
at the Navy Yard, New York, within ninety days
from the cate OF contract and must conform TO navy
Standard and be equal In all respects to the samples
at the several Navy Yards, and must pass the usual
The Flannel must be all wool, twilled and wool
dyed with pure indigo, and must be in pieces OF
about fifty yards in length, twenty-seven inches
wide weighing five and one-haf ounces per yard,
and to have lst on each edge of four white wooen
threads woven In the whole length OF the piece; the
pieces to be rolled separately without cloth boards,
and no piece TO have less average weight than five
and four-tenths ounces per yard. The quality and
color OF the flannel to be equal to the samples at the
several inspections
The Nankin must also be pure indigo-dyed.
The Sheeting must be free from cotton, eighty
inches in width, weighing twelve ounces and thirty
one one-hundredths per yard, texture by to lie
The Shoes must be delivered in boxes made of
seasoned white pine, planed and tongued and
grooved; sides, top, and bottom 1ve-eighth inch
thick, and the ends one inch Thick the sides to be
nailed to the bottom and the top to be secured by
not less than ten one and threefourth inch screws,
one screw at each end Of the box, to be counter
sunk one quarter inch by one and one-quarter inch
in diameter.
The sizes of the Socl and Shoes must conform to
the schedule TO be supplied by the inspector at New
York.
Bonds, with approved security, will be required in
one-quaTter the estimated amount Of the contract
and twenty per cent, in addition will be withheld
from the amount of each payment as collateral
security for the due performance OF the contract
which reservation will not be paid uHt the contract
is fully complied with
Every offer must be accompanied by written
guarantee, signed by one or more responsible per-
sons that the bidder bidders WILL il his or their
bid be accepted, enter into obligation within five
days, with good and sufficient sureties, TO furnish
the articles proposed.
No proposals will be considered uniess accompa-
MED by such guarantee, from any parties ICh0
not bona de manufacturers Of regular dealers
IN the articles they offer TO furnish, in conformity
with the second section Of the joint res 9ution ap-
proved March 3, 1868.
The Department reserves the right to reject any
proposals unless the responsibility of the guarantors
is certified to by the Assessor of Internal Revenue
for the district In which they reside; and unless
the license required by act OF Congress is furnished
with the proposal well as to reject any proposal
not considered advantageous to the Government
E. 7. DUNN,
72ftuSt Chief of Bureau.