New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-27
PROPOSALS.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, }
Bureau of Yards and Docks, ,
WashinOtnn d & MAY p lR1l y

Bureau of Yards and Docks, ;
Washington. d. g.. May %, 1911
CEALED PROPOSALS TO FURNISH MATERIALS
- for the several navy yards for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 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 If so requested, to persons desr-
ing offer contract for any all of the classes
eral navy yards the classes for the yards under
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, 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 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
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 VIII be
made for failures of the mail
The proposal must be accompanied by certf
cate from the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
district in 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 fde
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-
quir-d by law, the Navy Department however. re-
serving the right to reject the lowest bid or any
which it may deem ex0rbItant.
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 all his bills to be
pail
To guard against offers being opened before the
time appointed, bidders are requested to use the
dorsed thus: Proposals for classes Nos. tname
the casses) for the Navy Yard at lname the yard)
ITO the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department Washington, D. c."
The schedule win state the tim within which
articles will be required to be delivered. If any
articles a, Q named in the schedules which not
| known to be in common and general use, the bid
ders will ascertain promptly whether such articles
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 madein 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 we'd 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. 2 Stone; No !, Yellow
Pine Timber No. YelI % Pine pa Lumber NO GaS
| and Cypress No. :, Lime, Hair and Plaster; No.
Cement; No. 9, Gravel and Sand; No. 81, Moulding
Iron, Iron Spikes and Nails; No. II, Steel; No. 10
Pig from No. a. Files; No IS Paints Oils and Glass
No I6 Ship Chandlery; No. II, Hardware; No. ID
| Stationery; No 90 Hay and Straw; No II, Proven
der; No ~ Charcoal; No. %, Betting, Packing and
| Hose; No. "a, Sperm and Lubricating Oils; No. Is
th G Coal p No. 49, BituminOGs Cumberland
| Coal; No. 3d. Semi Bituminous Broad-t0 Coal; No
81, Copper and Composition Nails; No. %, Machinery
Class SAP Excavation.
NAVAL ASYLUM.
Glass No. l. Clothing; No. 2, Hats, Boots, Shoes
etc; No. 3, Provisions No. 4. Groceries No. , DR.,
Goods; No; s, Bread, etc; No. 7. Tobacco; No.
No. IL, Fire Wood; No. l3, Provender No ID, Mis-
cellaneous No. Is, Hardware; No. l6 Stationery.
The following the classes, by their number
and letters required at the respective navy yard
and naval asylums:
KTrTERY, MAINE.
Nos. l. 8, TO- IL, H. IA, Is It, II, Ia, 20, p
%, %, "a, Is, q, %, 30.
CHARLESTOwN, MASSACHUSETTS,.
Nos. Las 10, IL, u, IA, Is, 10, II, 49, 20
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
Nos. L. g. a. s. 81 g. 91s, TO- IL, IT, A. IS, TO- II, Is
| 20, 81 %, %, "a, rs, 26, 81, 80, 81 80.
| PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos. g. II, Is, Is, II, 10, 20, 81, % 81, 3D.
NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA, PESSSYL
| VANIA
Nos. l., 2,3,4,5,67,a,9, II, II, 10, IA, Is, 10.
WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Nos.l24567e H. IL, 10, Is, l6, IT, 10, 20, 81, %
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
Nos 1.24,5.67,8, II, Il, Is, l6 Il, 10, 90 81, %
"a, 25, 26, 81, % p,o1,n,
Nos IL, IL, A. Is, l6, H. 10, 20, 81 D. %, "a
MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
Nos12345678 8, 10, H. u, IA, Is, Is, II, Ia
| o, oS "a rs 3d. "A" DANIEL AMMEN,
| --r,ny2a Iaw4w Chief of Bureau.