Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-02
PROPOSALS
FURNISHING SUPPLIES
10 THE
STATE PRIS
At
SAN QUENTIN AND FOLSOM.
PROPOSALS
ATE PRIS Ms
OFFICE OF THE
STATE BOARD OF PRISON DIRECTORS,
No. 40 kEARnY STREET, Room ?,

SAN FRANCISCO, February l, 1881.
10y ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
ID passed at the session held on the 1ith day OF
JANUARY 1881, sealed proposals will be received at
this office until y o'clock NJ. TUESDAY, the 10Th
day OF FEBRUARY 1881, for supplies to be furnished
and delivered to the Wardens of the State Prisons
at San Quentin and Folsom, for the use of said
Prisons, for the term of four months, beginning
MARCH /, 1881, and ending JUNE 80, 1881.
Separate bids will be received for each of the fol-
lowing classes of goods:
and Hams Beans, Onions, Potatoes, Cabbage and
Carrots; Flour; Meals, ETC.. Tobacco (best Navy ;
Barley Oats and Bran; Hay and Straw; Coal;
Shoe Findings; Dry Goods and Cloth; State Prison
Flannels and Cassmeres Blankets; Cement, Lime
and Sand; Paints, Oils and Glass; Stationery !;
Metals Tin and Hardware; Crockery, etc. Lum-
Der Drugs and Medicines 4; Mutton, Fresh Beef
and Beef Cattle The Cattle must be delivered on
foot in the State Prison Corrals, and passed upon
by the Warlens. The bids to be for the net weight
of the beef; the hides, tallow and all the offal to
belong to the State.
Printed schedules containing quantity and quality
of each class of articles required will be furnished
bidders on application at this office.
Parties to whom awards made will be
required to furnish the articles contracted
for upon the requisition OF the Wardens, at
the times and in the quantities demanded by
said officers.
All articles furnished must be Of the best quality of
the class mentioned in any scheduleand OF full weight
and subject to the approval of the Wardens, and
must be delivered at the State wharf at San
Quentin and at Folsom, in such quantities and
at such times as shall be required, and to
be weighed by authority of the Wardens. Any
article found below weight fixed by schedule,
otherwise, failing in quality, will be returned
at the expense of the contractor.
Parties bidding must in the schedule give the
price per pound, gallon, ton, bale, yard etc, in the
column under proposed Price
No bid Will be considered unless made upon the
schedule prepared, and such contract shall be
limited to bonafde dealers in the several classes of
articles contracted for.
Each bidder must accompany his bid with certi-
fed check upon some well known and responsible
banking house for at least 10 per cent of the
amount of his bid, payable to the order of AUG.
H. CHAPMAN, President OF said Board, the condition
being that If any party to whom contract shall be
awarded shall fail TO give the bond as required by
the Board of Directors for the faithful performance
of his contract the check accompanying said partys
bid shall be forfeited to the State,
The party to whom award shall be made will
be required to give bond with two more sure
ties, to the satisfaction Of the Board and in an
amount equal to 20 per centum of the contract,
ditioned for the faithful performance thereof.
II there should be required more of any article than
is mentioned in the schedule it must be furnished
the contract price, and if any less is required, the
Wardens will only pay for the quantity ordered.
The bids will be opened at IL o'clock NJ on
TUESDAY, the 18th day of FEBRUARY, 1881, in
open session of the Board, at this Office and to the
lowest responsible bidder
Payments will be made in thirty days from the
end of the month in which such merchandise shal
baye been delivered.
Bids must be addressed to the State Board Of
Prison Directors, Postoffee San Francisco and
Endorsed on envelope " Proposals for Furnishing
Supplies, giving the general name on schedule
AUG. H. CHAPMAN, President
JEROME SPAULD Nc, Secretary.
Dated February l, 1881 fe1 lat