New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-01
PROPOSALS..
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Washingtnn. ID. q MAY % l81l

NAVY DEPARTMENT
Bureau of Yards and Docks, ,
Washington. ID. g., 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 il requested, to persons desir-
ing to offer to contract for any all of the classes
named therein by the commandments 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 all of the
yards.
To prevent confusion and mistakes in sealing the
offers, no bid will be received which contains
classes for more than yard i'll envelope,
nor any bid which is not perfect and complete in
itself according to the forms of offer and guaranty,
and each individual OF a firm must sign the bid
rand cont ract
Bidders referred to the printed instructions.
which will be furnished with the schedules and
they are hereby cantioned. 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.
Ne bid win 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
license 10 deal in the articles for which he proposes
and by direction OF the Department, bids offers
Will be received only from parties who bona tide
dealers in, or manufacturers OF, tine articles they
offer TO furnish. The guarantOrs must be certified
by the Assessor of Internal Revenue for the district
The contract will be awarded to the person who
makes the lowest bid, and gives the guarantee re-
quirpd by Law, the Navy Department however re-
serving the right To reject the lowest bid 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
m-nt, 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"
Navy Department, Washington, D. c."
The schedule will state the tim within which
articles will be required to be delivered. If any
articles named in the schedules which are N t
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
tained 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 eentupi 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 approve in
tripcate by the commandment of the respective
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. A. Yellow Pine Lumber; No. s. Oak
and Hard Wood: No. 8, White Pine Spruce, Juniper
aud Cypress; No :, 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. IL, Steel; No. 10,
Pig Iron; No. a. Files; No. l5 Paints Oils and Glass;
No. 10, Ship Chandlery; No. II, Hardware; No. 10,
Stationery No. 20, Hay and Straw: No n Proven
der No. %. Charcoal; No. %. Betting. Packing and
Hose; No. "a. Sperm and Luhricating Oils; No. Is,
thracite Coal; No 49, Bitumno1s Cumberland
Coal; No. 30, Semi Btuminous Broad-top Coal No.
81, Copper and Composition Nails; No. %. Machinery
Glass "a" Excavation.
NAVAL ASYLUM.
Glass No. !, Clothing; No. 2, Hats, Boots Shoes,
etc; No. g. Provisions; No. I, Groceries, No. 5, Dry
Goods; No. S, Bread, etc; No. !. Tobacco; No. 8,
Coal; No. Paints, Oils, GAS etc.; No. H. Lumber;
No. II, Fire Wood No. ID, Provender; No. A. Mis-
celaueous; No. Is, Hardware; No. 10, Stationery.
The following are the classes, by their numbers
and letters, required at the respective navy yards
and naval asylums
KIrrERY, MAINE.
Nos. l. 5.6,7ss, 10, H. II, A. Is, l6 IT, l8, 90 81
p, %, d, 25, 27, 29 80.
CHARLESTowN, MASSACHUSETTS,.
Nos. l. 10, IL, IL, IA, Is 6, II, 10, 20,
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
Nos. l. g. 4, s. g. g. 91s 10. IL, IL, A. Is L. II u.s.
20, 2l p, 70, "a, IS Is, p, 80, 81 g.
PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos. g. II, Is, Is Il, 18, 20, 81, %, 81, 3D.
NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL-
WANNA.
Nos. l, 23,4,5,6,7,8, Ii, u, 10, 14,l 16.
WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Nos. 2,4,5, II, IL, 10, 15 l6 IT, 49, 90 81 23
NORFOLK VIRGINIA.
Nos. l. 2 4, 3, II. IA, 15 16 II, 49, 90 81 23
"a, IS, %, 81, 81.
PENSACOLA FLORIDA.
Nos s. O. 8, H. H. A. IS, IT, IT, 49, 20 81, D. % a.
MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
Nos l, g. 4, o., g. TO- H. v. IA, Is 49, II, 49,
D Ok 20 DANIEI, AMMEN