New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-17
OFFICIAL NOTICES.
PROPOSALS..
NAVY DEPARTMENT, }

NAVY DEPARTMENT
Bureau of Yards and Docks, ,
Washington. D. c.. May o. 1871.
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
and guarantee, will be furnished on application
and sent by mail if so requested, to persons desir
ing to offer to contract for any all of the classes
named therein, by the commandments of the sew
era 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 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 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
pires for receiving them
No bid will be considered which shall be received
after the period stated, and allowance viii be
made for failures of the mail
The proposal must be accompanied by certif-
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 parties NnO bona nde
dealers n 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-
auir-d 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
paymaster's Office he desires all 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: Proposals for classes Nos. (name
the classes) for the Navy Yard at (name the yard)
To 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 q named in the schedules which {
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 centrm 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
triplcate by the commandment 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
Pine Timber; No. 4, Yellow Pine Lumber; No. s. Oak
and Hard Wood: No. 6, White Pine spruce, Juniper
and Cypress; No. T. Lime, Hair and Plaster; No. 8,
Cement; No. 8, Gravel and Sand; No. 93, Moulding
Iron. Iron Spikes and Nails; No. II, Steel No. l3
Pig ron No. a. Files; No. Is Paints, Oils and Glass;
No. l6, Ship Chandlery; No. II, Hardware; No. 10,
der; No % Charcoal; No. %, Betting, Packing and
Hose; No. "a, Sperm and Lubricating Oils; No 25
Iron Work Piping ETC. No. rs angersi No - An
Coal; No. 80, Semi Btuminous Broad-top Coal; No.
81, Copper and Composition Nails; No. 81 Machinery
Glass .'A''. Excavation.
NAVAL ASYLUM.
Glass No. /, Clothing; No. 2, Hats Boots, Shoes
etc; No. g. Provisions No. A. Groceries; No. s. Dry
Goods; No. 6, Bread, etc; No. I Tobacco No. g.
Coal: No. g. Paints, Oils, G etc. No. H. Lumber;
No. II, Fire Wood No. Is. ProveLder 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, 5. 10, II, r. H. Is l6, II, 10, 90 d.
CHARLEsTowN, MASSACHUSETTS,.
Nos IL 9, 10, IL, r. IA, Is, l6, IT, 49, 90
81, y, %, "a, Is, a. 2s, 81.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
Nos l, a. s. 6, g. 91s, TO- H. H. IA, Is, l6 Il, 49,
20, 81, %, % "a 25. 26, a. 30, 81, 81.
PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos 6, IL, Is, l6, II, l8, 20, 81, %, 27 81.
NAVAL ASYLUM PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL-
VANIA.
Nos !, 2, g. 4, SO, 7,S,s II, Il, 10, AIS, l6.
WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Nos LAS 81 II, II, 49, 15 10, Il, 49, 20, 81 %.
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
Nos / A. 49, IL, II, Is 10, Il, 10, 90 81, %.
"a, rs, &C. 81, 81.
PENSACOLA FLORIDA.
Nos s : g. H. H. A. Is, 16 L. Ia, 90 81 o. 23 "a.
MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
Nos l. 10, g. TO- II. IL. IA, Is. 16 Il, 49,
% %, "a IS. 80, "A" DANIEL AMMEN,
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