New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-13
OFFICIAL NOTICES.
PROPOSALS.

NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Yards and Docks, ;
SEALED PROPOSALS TO FURNISH MATERIALS
- for the several navy yards for the fiscal year
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 application
and sent by mail il requested to persons desir-
ing to offer to contract for any or all of the classes
named therein, by the commandants 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, 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 noti-
fed, 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
pires for receiving them.
Ne bid will be considered which shall be received
after the period stated, and no allowance win 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 offers
will be received only from parties who are bona tde
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-
CURED by law, the Navy Department, however, re-
serving the right to reject the lowest bid or any
which it may deem ex0rbtant.
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
paymaster's office he desires ali his bills to be
paid.
To guard against offers being opened before the
time appointed, bidders are requested to use the
printed enve opes. furnished by the bureau, in
dorsed thus: iProposals for classes Nos. (name
the classesl 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 viii state the tim within which
articles will be required to be delivered If any
articles named in the schedules which are MT
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 approved in
triplicate by the cOmmandant of the respective
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:
Glass No. l, Bricks; No. 2, Stone; No. 3, Yellow
Pine Timber No. 4, Yellow Pine Lumber; No. s. Oak
and Hard Wood No. 6, White Pine. Spruce, Juniper
and Cypress; No I, Lime, Hair and Plaster; No. 8,
Cement No. 8, Gravel and Sand; No. 934, Moulding
and Firesand and Fireclay; No. 10, Slate; No II,
Iron, Iron Spikes and Nails; No II, Steel; No 10,
Pig Iron; No. a. Files No Is Paints, Oils and Glass;
Stationery; No. 90 Hay and Straw; No 81 Proven
der; No. %, Charcoal; No. %, Betting. Packing and
Hose; No. "a. Sperm and Lubricating Oils; No. rs,
Iron Work, Piping, etc; No. &C. Augers; No. 27. An
thracite Coal; No. 49, Bituminous Cumberland
Coal; No 80, Semi Bituminous Broad-top Coal No.
81, Copper and Composition Nails; No. 81, Machinery
Glass SAP Excavation.
NAVAL ASYLUM.
Glass No l. Clothing; No 2, Hats Boots, Shoes,
Goods; No. 6, Bread, etc; No. Z. Tobacco; No. 8,
Coal; No 9, Paints, Oils Glass etc. No. H. Lumber;
No. H. Fire Wood; No. 10, PrOvender No. A. Mis-.
cellaneous; No. 15 Hardware; No. 16 Stationery.
The following are the classes, by their numbers
and letters required at the respective navy yards
and naval asylums:
KITTERY, MAINE.
22 %, "a, rs, q, 2s, 30.
CHARLESTowN. MASSACHUSETTS,.
a. N ss g. as g. IS 81 H. H. H. IT, To- 10 ~
BROOKLYN NEW YORK.
Nos. 6,7,9 9k, TO- H. IL, IA, Is, It, II, 10,
90 81, %, %, "A, IS, 26, 81 80, 81, 80.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos. 6, II, l5 Is, IT, 49, 20, 81, %, 81, 30.
NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL-
VANIA.
Nos. ], 2, g. 4, S, 6,7,8, g. IL, H. Is, a. Is, 16.
WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Nos II, H. 49, 15 Is, II, 18, 90 81, %.
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
Nos |, 49, IL, A. Is, 16, II, 49, 20, 81, %,
"a, Is, 26, 81, %.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
Nos S, 78, H. IL, IA, l5 It, IT, 49, 90 81 a. 49, "a.
MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
Nos. l, 4, CT, TO- II, 12 IA, Is Is, H. 18,
%, %, "a, Is, 80, "a" DANIEL AMMEN,
my28 law4w Chief of Bureau.