New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-10
PROPOSALS.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Yards and Docks,
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Bureau OF Yards and Docks, ,
Washington. d. G.. May %, 181l.)
SEALED PROPOSALS TO FURNISH MATEklALS
y for the several navy yards for the fiscal year
ending June 30 1872, will be received at this Blu.
reau until ten o o'clock A. NJ. of the TWENTIETH
OF JUNE next, at which time the proposals will
be opened.
Printed schedules, in which the materials and
articles required are embraced with form of offer
and guarantee, will be furnished on application
and sent by mail il requested, to persons desir
ing to offer contract for any all of the classes
named therein by the commandments of the sew
their command, by the paymaster nearest
thereto, or by the Bureau for any or all OF the
yards.
To prevent confusion and mistakes in sealing the
offers, bid will be received which contains
classes for more than one yard in one envelope,
nor any bid which is net perfect and complete in
itself according to the forms of offer and guaranty
and each individual Of firm must sign the bid
and contract.
Bidders are referred to the printed instructions,
which will be furnished with the schedules and
they hereby cautioned. and particularly mott
ned, that their offers should be made on the printed
| form prescribed by the Bureau. and be mailed in
time to reach their destination before the time ex-
| pires for receiving them.
after the period stated and no allowance will be
! made for failures of the mail
The proposal must be accompanied by certit-
cate from the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
district in which the bidder resides, that he has
license II deal in the articles for which be proposes
and by direction of the Department bids or offers
will be received only from parties who are bona hde
dealers in, or manufacturers of, tine articles they
|
by the Assessor of Internal Revenue for the district
| in which they reside.
| The contract will be awarded to the person who
makes the lowest bid, ana gives the guarantee re-
| quir-d by law, the Navy Department, however, re-
serving the right to reject the lowest bid, or any
| which it may deem exOrbitant.
| Sureties in the full amount will be required to
sign tine contract. and their responsibility must be
certified to the satisfaction of the Navy Depart
ment and The bidder must state distinctly at what
paymaster's office he desires all his bills to be
| paid.
| ITO hai al hafo he
| time appointed, bidders requested TO use the
| printed enve Opes. furnished by the bureau in
| dOrsed thus: Proposals for classes Nos (name
the casses) for the Navy Yard at (name the yard)
TO the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department, Washington, d. c."
| The schedule will state the tim. within which
| articles will be required to be delivered. If any
articles named in the schedules which are not
| known TO be in common and general use, the bid
ders will ascertain promptly whether such articles
can he procured or not and if they can not be OBJ
| once before bids shall be received.
All offers not made in strict conformity with the
| instructions accompanying the schedules will, at
| the option of the bureau, be rejected.
| As additional security twenty per centum will
be withheld from the amount of the bills until the
contracts shall have been completed, and eighty
| trpicate by the cOmmandant of the respective
yards will be paid by the paymaster of the station
| designated in the contract, 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
Glass No /, Bricks; No. 2, Stone; No. 3, Yellow
Pine Timber; No. 4, Yellow Pine Lumber No. 5, Oak
and Cypress; No. = Lime, Hair and Plaster; No. g.
Cement; No. 9, Gravel and Sand; No. 81, Moulding
and Firesand and Freclay; No; TO- Slate; No. II II
Pig Iron No. H. Files; No l5 Paints Oils and Glass
No. 16, Ship Chandlery; No. II, Hardware; No. 1S
Stationery; No. 20 Hay and Straw; No q; Proven
der No. %. Charcoal; No. 49, Betting. Packing and
Hose; No. "a. Sperm and Lubrcating Oils No %
Iron Work Piping etc; No. 20, Augers No. n. An
| No RituminOuS Cumberland
| Coal; No 80, Semi -BituminOus Broadtop Coal; No
81 Copper and Composition Nails No. %, Machinery
| and Tools.
Glass SAP Excavation.
| NAVAL ASYLUM.
Class No. l, Clothing; No. g. Hats, Boots, Shoes
etc: No. g. Provisions; No. 4. Groceries; No. 5, Dry
Goods No. 6, Bread, etc; No. l. Tobacco; No. g.
Coal; No. g. Paints, Oils, Grass, ETC.; No H. Lumber
No; y, Fire Wood No. 10, Provender; No. IA, Mis-
| cellaneous; No. Is, Hardware; No. l6, Stationery.
| The following are the classes, by their numbers
and letters, required at the respective navy yards
| and naval asylums:
KITTERY, MAINE.
o. 20, "a, IS p, 90, 81
cHARLEsTowN. MASSACHUSETTS,: - -
Nos l., 9, TO- IL, II, IA, Is l6, II, Is, 20
81, %, %, a. Is, II, 2s, 81.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
Nos l, 3, 5, 6, 9k TO- IL IL, A. Is Is, II, Is
90 81, %, %, "a, Is, 26, p, 30, 81, 81.
PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA.
| Nos. 6, IL, Is, 16, H. 10, 20, 81, 3d. p, 30.
NAVAL ASYLUM PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL
| VANIA.
Nos. l. q g. 4, s. 81, 8, 9, IL, IL, Is, IA, Is l6.
| WASHINGTON DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Nos 2456,7,9, II, H. 10, Is, t. II, 10, 20, 81, 49,
| NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
Nos l, g. II, IA, Is, 16, H. 10, 20, 81 %
| "a, Is, &C. 81, 3..
| PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
Nos 5, 10, H. II, A. l5 &c. H. 49, 90 81 %, % "a
MARE ISLAND CALIFORNIA.
Nos l, 34,5,6 T8 10, II, H. A. Is 16, II, 10
| %. %, "a, 25, 80, "A" DANIEL AMMEN,
| my28 law4w Chief Of Bureau.