New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-02
PROPOSALS..
NAVY DEPARTMENT, }

Bureau of Yards and Docks
Washington. D. c., May %, 1871
CEALED PROPOSALS TO FURNISH MATERIALS
- for the several navy, yards for the fiscal year
ending June go 1872, will be received at this Blu
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 commandments of the
eral navy yards the classes for the yards under
their command or by the paymaster nearest
thereto, or by the Bureau for any 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 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 are hereby cautioned. and particularly noti-
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
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 certifi-
cate from the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
district in which the bidder resides that he has
license To deal in the articles for which he proposes
and by direction of the Department, bids offers
will be received only from parties who are bona de
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-
qurtd by law, the Navy Department, however,
serving the right to reject the lowest bid, any
which it may deem exorbitant.
Sureties ill the full amount will be required 10
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
psymasters 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 enve opes 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 ase named in the schedules which are II
known to be in common and general use, the bid
ders will ascertain promptly whether such articles
can be procured or not, and if they can not be OBJ
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 apprO ved 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 same shall have been passed by
the Secretary of the Treasury
The classes of this bureau are numbered and
designated as follows:
Class No. l, Bricks; No. q Stone; No. 3, Yellow
Pine Timber; No. 4, Yellow Pine Lumber No. 5, Oak
and Hard Wood; No. g. White Pine, spruce, Juniper
and Cypress No. Z, Lime, Hair and Plaster; No. 8.
Cement; No. 9, Gravel and Sand; No. 81. Moulding
and Firesand and Fireclay; No: 10: Slate; No. II,
Iron Iron Spikes and Nails No. r. Steel; No. 49,
Pig Iron; No. IA, Files No Is, Paints Oils and Glass;
No. IS, Ship Chandery; No. H. Hardware; No. 10,
Stationery; No. 20, Hay and Straw; No D. Proven.
der; No %, Charcoal No. %, Betting Packing and
Hose; No. "a Sperm and Lubricating Oils No. IS,
thrace Coal H. 81 e. And
Coal No. 80 Semi Bituminous Broad top Coal; No
81, Copper and Composition Nails; No. 81, Machinery
and Tools.
Class ga" Excavation.
NAVAL ASYLUM
Glass No |, Clothing; No. 2, Hats, Boots, Shoes,
etc. No 3, Provisions; No. 4. Groceries; No. 5 Dry
Coal No. g, Paints Oils G ass etc: No II. Lumber;
No. II, Fire Wood; No. 10. Provender; No. IA, Mis-
ce1aneoMs; No. Is, Hardware; No. 10, Stationery.
and letters, required the respective navy yards
and naval asylums
KITTERY, MAINE.
Nos. l. Sc, 1879, 10, H. H. A. Is 6, Il, 49, 20 81,
", % "a, Is, n, 49, %.
CHARLEsTowY, MASSACHUSETTS,.
Nos. l2567,s, g. 10, II, H. II, Is, Is, H. ID, 20,
81, o. %, "a, Is, q, %, 81.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
Nos. s1.. TO- H. H. IA, Is, l6 II, Is,
20, 81, % %, "a, % 26, 27, 80 81, 81.
PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos G. II, Is, l6, II, 19, 90 81, %, 81, 3D.
NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA, PENNsYL-
Nos. l. 2, 3, A. 5, g., = 8,9, H. II, 10, II, IS Is.
WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Nos. l. 2, 6,79, H. r. 49, Is l6 II, 49, 90 2 80
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
Nos. 56,7,3 II, IA, Is, 10, H. 10, 30 81, %
"a, IS %, 81, 32.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
Nos. s. :, g. II, IL, H. l5 l6 H. 49, 90 81 ~ % "a
MARE ISLAND CALIFORNIA.
Nos l, "a, 10, II, IL, IA, Is l6, II, 10,
%, %, "a, 25, 80, "a" DANIEL AMMEN
my23 law4w Chief Of Bureau.