New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-20
PROPOSALS..
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Washington. ID. G. Nav ~, 1871. y

Bureau of Yards and Docks, ;
Washington, ID. G., MAY %, 1911
CEALED PROPOSALS TO FURNISH MATERIALS
- for the several navy yards for the fiscal year
ending June 30, lS72 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 mater als and
articles required are embraced with form of offer
and guarantee, will be furnished on application
and sent by mail il so requested, to persons desir-
ing to offer to contract for any all of the classes
eral navy yards 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, 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
Bidders are referred to the printed instructions,
which will be furnished with the schedules, and
Ana that their Offers snomld he made ON the printed
form prescribed by the Bureau, and be mailed in
time to reach their destination before the time ex
Ne bid viii 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 a certf-
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
win be received only from parties who are bona tide
IN,
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, any
which it may deem exorbtant.
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
pait.
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 will state the tim. within which
articles will be required to be delivered. If any
articles named in the schedules which are not
known to be in common and general use, the bid
ders will ascertain promptly whether such articles
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
inst uetions 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.
Glass No. l. Bricks; No Q, Stone; No 3, Yellow
Pine Timber; No 4, Yellow Pine Lumber; No: 5, 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. 93s, Moulding
Iron, Iron Spikes and Nails; No. IL, Steel; No. 3D.
Pig Iron No. A. Files; No. Is Paints Oils and Glass;
No. Is, Ship Chandlery; No. II, Hardware; No. IL,
Stationery; No. 20, Hay and Straw; No 81 Proven.
der No. %. Charcoal; No. %. Betting, Packing and
Hose; No. "a, Sperm and Lubricating Oils; No rs
thracite Coal; No. 49, Bituminous Cumberland
| Coal; No. 80, Semi BituminOus Broad-tOp Coal No.
81, Copper and Composition Nails; No. 81 Machinery
Class sap Excavation.
NAVAL ASYLUM.
Glass No. l. Clothing No. 2, Hats, Boots, Shoes
etc; No. 3, Provisions No. T. Groceries; No. ;, Dry
Goods; No. 6, Bread, etc; No. I, Tobacco No. g.
Coal; No 9, Paints, Oils ass etc. No. II, Lumber
No. H. Fire Wood; No. ID, Provender; No. IA, Mis-
| cellaneous No. 15 Hardware No. is, Stationery.
The following the classes, by their numbers
| and letters required at the respective navy yards
| and naval asylums:
KTTTERY, MAINE
Nos. 10, H. II, IA, Is, l6, H. 10, 20. 81
CHARLESTOwN, MASSACHUSETTS
Nos. L. 678, 8, 10, IL, IL, IA, Is It, Il. 10, 20
| 81, e. %, "a, Is, q, 30, 81.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
Nos. l. sk, 10, II, IL, H. l5 l6, II, Is
20, 81, ~ %, "a, IS, &C. 81, 80, 81, 81.
PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA
Nos. 6, II, Is, Is, II, Is, 20, 81, o. 27, 81.
NAVAL ASYLUM PHILADELPHIA H1KY, PESNsYL
Nos. l, 4, s. 81, 8, 8, IL, II, 10, A. Is, 16
| WASHINGTON. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Nos. 245679, II, H. 49, Is, Is, II, 10, 90 81, Is
| NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.
Nos l, Sc, g. Ii, a. Is, l6, II, 49, 90 81, %
| "a, IS, %, 81, 80.
| PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.
| Nos II ID ID * is II IA 20 D.
| MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA.
Nos l. O. "a 81, g. 10, II, ~, IA, Is, 16 H. Ia
| d, %, "a, rs, 80, "a" DANIEL AMMEN,
| my28 law4w Chief of Bureau.