New Orleans Republican., 1871-06-14
PROPOSALS..
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Yards and Docks,


CtEALED PROPOSALS TO FURNISH MATERIALS
- 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 requested, to persons desr-
ing to offer to contract for any all of the classes
named therein, by the commandants of the sew
eral navy yards 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 viii be received which contains
classes for more than one ward 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 a 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.
fed that their offers should be made the printed
form prescribed by the Bureau, and be mailed in
time to reach their destination before the time
piTes for receiving them
No bid will be considered which shall be received
after the period stated, and allowance will be
made for failures of the mail
The proposal must be accompanied by a certih-
cate from the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
district i'll which the bidder resides that he has
license 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 de
dealers in, or manufacturers Of tne articles they
offer TO furnish The guarantors must he 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 re ect 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
paymasters office he desires all his bills to be
paid.
To guard against offers being opened before the
time appointed, bidders requested to use the
printed envelopes, furnished by the bureau, in
dorsed thus: proposals for classes Nos (name
the classes) for the Navy Yard at name the yard"
ITO 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 are named in the schedules which not
known to be in common and general use, the bid
ders will ascertain promptly whether such articles
can be procured not, and if they can not be OBJ
tained 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 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 shall have been passed by
the Secretary of the Treasury.
The classes of this bureau are numbered and
designated as follows
Glass No. l, Bricks No. 2, Stone; No. 3, Yellow
and Hard Wood: No. 6, White Pine Spruce, Juniper
and Cypress; No. I, Lime, Hair and Plaster; No. g,
Cement; No. 8, Gravel and Sand No. 99a, Moulding
and Fresand and Fireclay; No. 10, Slate; No. II,
Iron, Iron Spikes and Nails; No. II, Steel; No l3,
Pig Iron No. A. Files No. Is Paints Oils and Glass;
Stationery; No. 90 Hay and Straw; No q, Proven
der; No. %, Charcoal; No 23, Betting, Packing and
Hose; No "a Sperm and NJ LusTieatng 5 o Y y No 2S
thracite Coal; No. %, Bitumineus Cumberland
Coal; No. 80, Semi Btuminous Broad-top Coal; No.
81 Copper and Composition Nails; No. 81, Machinery
and Tools.
Class "A" Excavation.
NAVAL ASYLUM
Glass No. l. Clothing; No 3 Hats, Boots, Shoes,
etc; No. g. Provisions; No 4. Groceries, No $, Dry
Coal; No. g. Paints, Oils Glass etc; No. H. Lumber;
No II, Fire Wood No. l3, 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.
Nos l. 10, IL, II. H. Is, l6, H. 8, 20, 81
CHARLEsTOwN, MASSACHUSETTS.
Nos 2567.8, 10, II, u, II, 15 l6, IT, ls, 20,
q, 22, 23 "a, 25, 27, 29, 3D.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
Nos l. g. 5, g. 7, g. 91a, 10, II, H. a. 15 16 IT, 1o
20, 2l, D. %, "a, 25, g. 27, 80, 81 30.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos. 6, II, Is, 16, It, I8, 20, 21, %, 27, 50.
NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA PENNSYL-
VANIA.
Nos. l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 67,8,s, H. II, 13, IA, Is l6.
WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Nos. l, 24,5,679 H. r. 49, Is, 6 II, l8, 90 81, 23
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
Nos. l. 2, s. 7, 8, H. IA, Is, 16, H. Is, 90 81 23
"a, 25 26, 81, 3d.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
Nos. s. I, g. IL, IL, a. 15 16, IT, 49, 20 81 22 23 "a
MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
Nos /, 345,6,7 10, IL, r. A. Is, l6. II. l8.
%, %, "a, Is, 80, "a" DANIEL AMMEN
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