New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-09
OFFICIAL NOTICES.


NAVY DEPARTMENT.
Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Washington. d. c., MAY %, 1871
SEALED PROPOSALS TO FURNISH MATERIALS
y for the several navy yards for the fiscal year
ending June 30. 1872. will be received at this Bu-
reau until ten 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 so requested, to persons desir-
ing to offer to contract for any or all of the classes
named therein, by the commandments of the sew
eral navy yards or the classes for the yards under
their command, or 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, no bid will be received which contains
classes for more than one yard in one envelope,
nor any bid which is not perfect and complete in
itself, according TO the forms of offer and guaranty,
and each individual of a firm must sign the bid
and contract.
Bidders are referred to the printed instructions,
which will be furnished with the schedules, and
they are hereby cautioned. and particularly mott
tied, 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.
No bid will be considered which shall be received
after the period stated, and no allowance viii be
made for failures of the mail.
The proposal must be accompanied by a certif-
cate from the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
district in which the bidder resides, that he has a
license to deal in the articles for which he proposes;
and by direction of the Department, bids or offers
will be received only from parties who are bona tide
dealers in, or manufacturers OF, the articles they
offer to furnish. The guarantors must be certified
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-
quired 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 the contract. and their responsibility must be
certified to the satisfaction of the Navy Depart
ment, and the bidder must state distinctly at what
naVmaS-pI'S office he desires all his hills IN no
paid.
To guard against offers being opened before the
time appointed, bidders are requested to use the
printed enye .opes. furnished by the bureau, in
dorsed thus: Proposals for classes Nos. name
the classes) for the Navy Yard at (name the yardl"
ITO the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department, Washington, D. C."
The schedule will state the tim S within which
articles will be required to be delivered. If any
articles are named in the schedules which are not
known to be in common and general use, the bid
ders will ascertain promptly whether such articles
tanned, the fact must be reported to the bureau at
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
per centum of the amount of each bill, approved in
triplicate by the commandment of the respective
yards, will be paid by the pavmaster 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
designated as follows:
Class No. ], Bricks; No. 2. Stone; No. 3, Yellow
Pine Timber; No. 4, Yellow Pine Lumber; No. 5, Oak
and Hard Wood: No. s, White Pine, Spruce, Juniper
and Cypress; No; :, Lime, hair and Plaster; No. 8,
Cement; No. 9, Gravel and Sand; No. 81, Moulding
and Firesand and Freclay; No. 10, Slate; No. II,
Iron, Iron Spikes and Nails; No. IL, Steel; No. 10,
No, I6, Ship Chandlery; No. II, Hardware; No. 10,
Stationery; No. 20, Hay and Straw; No. I'll, Proven
der; No. %. Charcoal; No. %. Betting, Packing and
Toe NJ d Eaa-., cd l~tantfn oils. No Ok
Iron Work, Piping, ETC.; No. 26, Augers; No. d. An
thracite Coal; No. %, Bitumineus Cumberland
81, Copper and Composition Nails; No. 80, Machinery
and Tools.
Class "a" Excavation. .
NAVAL ASYLUM.
Class No Clothing No. 2, Hats, Boots, Shoes,
etc; No. 3, Provisions; No. 4. Groceries,; No. 5, Dry
Goods; No. 6, Bread, etc; No. Z. TobaccO; No. 8.
Coal; No: 9, Paints, Oils, lass, etc; No. Il, Lumber;
cellaneous; No. Is, hardware; No. I6, Stationery.
The following are the classes, by their numbers
and letters, required at the respective navy yards
and naval asylums:
KITTERY. MAINE.
Nos. /, Sc, Z, 8. 9, 10, IL, II, IA, Is, l6, II, 10, 20, p,
q, %, d, Is, 81, %, 20.
CHARLEsTowN, MASSACHUSETTS,.
Nos. l, 2 5 8. :. 3, 9, 10, IL u, IA. Is, l6, 1t, 10, 20,
81, ~, 23, "a, 25, n, 29, y,
BROOKLYN sew YORK.
Nos. |, 81 5, 6. = 9, 9k, 10. u. IL, "A, Is, l6, II, Is,
20, 81, %, %, "a, 25, 26, n. 81, 81. 81.
PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos. 6, IL, Is, 16, II, 10. %. II, ., q, 81.
NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL
wanna.
Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, s. {, T., 9, II. Il. l3, ID, Is, l6.
WASHINGTON. I OF COLUMBIA.
Nos. /, "a, S, s, 7, 9, II, IL, -, Is. ID. II, 10, 20, 81, %.
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
Nos. ], o, 4,5,6, 7,8, IL, IA, Is, Is, II, 10, 20, 81, %,
"a, rs, 26, u, 90.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
Nos. 5, 6, :, 8, II, IL, IA, Is, l6, Il, 10, 20, q, %, %, "a.
MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
Nos. !, 2, 3, 4, s. 6, 7,8, 8, 10, II. 70. IA, IS. 16. II, 10,
%, %. "a, rs, 30, "a" DANIEL AMMEN,
my29 1aw4w Chief Of Bureau.