New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-16
OFFICIAL NOTICES.
PROPOSALS.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,

NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Yards and Docks, I
Washington. D. G., May ~. l87l.)
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 embraced, with form of offer
and guarantee, will be furnished application
and sent by mail If requested, to persons desr-
ing to offer to contract for any all of the classes
named therein, by the commandments of the sew
eral navy yards the classes for the yards under
their command, or by the paymaster nearest
thereto, OF 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,
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 cont ract
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 on the printed
form prescribed by the Bureau, and be mailed in
time to reach their destination before the time ex-
pires fer 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 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 or offers
dealers in OF manufacturers of, the articles they
offer to furnish The guarantOrs must be certified
by the Assessor of Internal Revenue f0r 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
cfa off he hasraa
paid.
To guard against offers being opened before 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. G."
The schedule will state the tim. within which
articles viii be required to be delivered. If any
| articles named in the schedules which are net
| known to be in common and general use, the bid
ders will ascertain promptly whether such articles
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
insti uctions accompanying the schedules will, at
| the option of the bureau, be rejected.
e c se bs 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 eontraet within ten days aiter
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
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. g. Gravel and Sand; No. 90, Moulding
| and Firesand and Fireclay; No: 10, Slate; No IL,
Iron, Iron Spikes and Nails; No. IL Steel; No 10,
Pig Iron; No. IA Fes No. Is, Paints, Oils and Glass;
| No l6 Ship Chandery; No. II, Hardware; No IL,
Stationery; No. 20, Hay and Straw No II, Proven;
der; No %, Charcoal No. %, Betting Packing and
| Hose; No "a, Sperm and Lubricating Oils; No. rs,
Iron Work. Piping, etc. No. 26, Augers; No; y An,
thracite Coal No; %, Bitumineus Cumberland %s1 an
81. Copper and Composition Nails; No. 81, Machinery
Class "a" Excavation.
NAVAL ASYLUM.
Glass No. l, Clothing; No. o, Hats, Boots, Shoes
etc; No. g. Provisions; No. 4. Groceries; No 5, Dry
| Goods No. 6, Bread etc; No. T. Tobacco; No. o.
Coal; No. g. Paints, Oils, Ass etc; No. H. Lumber
/ No u, Fire Wood No. 10, Proveuder; No. IA, Mis-
| cellaneous: No. Is 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.
Nos 1,56,7,ss TO- IL, IL, A. IS, l6, IT, 10, 20, 81
p, %, "a, rs, p, 20, %.
CHARLEsTowN, MASSACHUSETTS,.
Nos. 9, TO- IL, II, IA. l5 l6, IT. Is, 20
81, p, %, "a, Is, n, %, 81.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
Nos. /, 6,7s 81, TO- H. 10, IA, l5 l6, II, Is
20, 81, p, %, "a, IS, 26, 27, 80, 81, g.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
Nos. 6, IL, Is, 16, IT, 10, 20, 2l, %, 27, 80.
NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYL
WANNA.
Nos. Ia, 8, AS, 10 g, II, II, 10, IA, IS, l6
WASHINGTON DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Nos II, r. 10, 15 Is, II, 10, 90 81, %
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
Nos. l. 567,8, IL, IA, 15 Is, II, 10, 90, 81, %
"a, rs, 26, 81, 80.
| PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
Nos g. g. H. H. A. Is, l6, IT, 10, 90 81, %, 49, "a
MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA
Nos l. AS 49, 9, TO- II, u. IA, Is, 16 IT, Is
% 23 "a IS 3d. "a" DANIEL AMMEN,