New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-28
PROPOSALS..
NAVY DEPARTMENT,

Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Washington. D. C., May 70, 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 application
and sent by mall ii so requested, to persons desr-
ing to offer to 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 not 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 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
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 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 be proposes
and by direction of the Department, bids offers
will be received only from parties who bona ide
u,
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-
quired 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 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 win state the tim. within which
articles will be required to be delivered. If any
articles are named in the schedules which are not
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
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
Glass No. /, Bricks; No. 2, Stone; No. 3, Yellow
Pine Timber No. 4, Yellow Pine LUMBER No S, Oak
and N
Cement No. 9, Gravel and Sand; No. Ok, Moulding
and Firesand and Fireclay; No. 10, Slate; No. II,
Pig Iron; No. IA, Files No. Is, Paints OILS and GLASS;
No. 10, Ship Chandlery; No. IT, Hardware; No. 10,
de So * a S Bens
Hose; No. "a. Sperm aud Lubricating Oils No. 25,
Iron Work, Piping, etc; No 26, Augers No; q; An,
thracite Coal; No. 20, BituminOus Cumberland
Coal; No. 3d. Semi Bituminous Broadt top Coal; No
81, Copper and Composition Nails; No. 32 Machinery
Class ''A'' Excavation.
NAVAL ASYLUM.
Glass No. l. Clothing No. 2, Hats, Boots Shoes
ETC.; No 3, Provisions No. T. Groceries; No s. Dry
Goods No. 6, Bread, etc; No. 7. Tobacco; No. 8,
No. IL, Fire Wood; No. 49, Proveuder; 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:
KITTBRY, MAINE.
Nos. l, TO- II, H. IA, IS 16 II, IS, 20 81
%, %, "a, 25 27, %, 80.
CHARLESTowN, MASSACHUSETTS,.
., Nos s 256,a8s TO- IL, la A. Is, l6, II, 49, 20
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
Nos |, 5, s, 10 81, TO- H. 2'l4, Is, 49, IT, 49,
20, 81, %, o. "a, IS, &c, q, 80, 81, 80.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos 6, H. Is, 16, II, 49, 20, 81, %, 81 81.
NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL.
WANNA.
Nos. l, 2, g. 4, Sc 10, 8, II, r. 10, IA, Is, l6
WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Nos. o. 8, II, H. b. IS IT, IT, 49, 20 d. g.
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
Nos. Ass, II, a. IS, Is, II, 1s 90 q, %.
"a, Is 26, 81, 80.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA
Nos. s. g. H. IL, IA, Is &c. IT, 49, 20 D. o. % a.
MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
Nos. l. 2, a. T. g. g. TO- H. H. A. 49, Is, II, 10,
%, %, "a, Is, 80, "a" DANIEL AMMEN,
my2s 1aw4w Chief of Bureau.