Year: 1863

WAsHISeroS. January 9th, 1863 !


Proposals will be receiv ed at this office until Pm.
on the 9th of February, 1853 for furnishing l3 10
and inch cast iron cannon, to be made in conform
ity with drawings to be supplied by the Ordnance
Depar,ment Dep r. and with the following spechcations;
blast charcoal iron. to be cast hollow and cooled from
the interior and 10 have tenacity of metal of not
mined by testing specimens taken from the sinking
head of the gun, and from a cylinder from the
same heat, and from metal of the quality that
from which the gun is cast This cylinder i 10 be
cast erd in dry sand mouds and is be I2inches
high. with an epical base of "a inches greater and
10 inches lesser axis. The specimens are to be cut
from the gun head, A. a slab. Al inches thick from
the cylinder by planes parallel TO- and equi-distant
from the axis Of the cylinder and the lesser axis of
The Ordnance Department will test the specimens.
furnish the ammunition and prove the trial gun,
which must be ready for trial as possible and
not later than three months from the date the
tract. No contract will be given, will the trial
gun be paid for. unless 1t shall endure proof of 1000
rounds. with service charges of powder of which 200
rounds will be with solid shot, and 800 rounds with
shells The testing to be done isee of charge the
contractor but he will be required TO furnish proper
facilities for testing such convenient ground
age for ammunition butt in which the projectiles
will be embedded and saved and the requisite force
for handling and firing the guns All the are
TO be made OF the same quality of iron that of the
triaI gun and the Ordnance Department is to have
the right TO test the iron during the process of sbr
cation of the cannon Tor which purpose the founder
Is to furnish free Of charge, at least specimen
from the head of each cannon, and slabs from cylin
ders. as before described, at the option of the De-
partment not to exceed one for every ten cannon.
Each cannon TO endure the regular proof and in
spection for guns of the calibre; and are
to be received or paid for but such are approved
after inspection and proof which will be received at
the foundry where made Bidders will state the mum.
bers and cabers of the cannon they propose TO fur
nish on the foregoing specifications and conditions;
the place where they be made the time of COM
mencing delivery and the rate OF delivery per month
thereafter and the price per pound per gun, for
the finished cannon. No bids will be entertained
unless from founders actually engaged In the busi-
ness, evidence of which must accompany the bid.


Failure TO deliver at the specified time will subject
the contractor to forfeiture of the amount to be de-
livered at that time Each party obtaining contract
will be required to enter into bonds with proper
reties for It's faithful fuhment; and transfer of the
contract TO another party will cause its entire forfeit
ure Bidders will be required to file with their bids
bond in the penal sum of not less than $4,000.
signed BY not less than two persons conditioned that
IL the bid is accepted. the bidder shall comply with
his proposal and faithfully and fully perform what
he proposes to undertake. The bond must be &C.
knowledged before Judge of q court of record and
the bondsmen must be certified by the Judge of
District Court of the United States, or an Ordnance
officer in charge of United States arsenal, to be
each worth the penal sum of the bord and above
all liabilities The right is to reject all pro-
posas il the prices deemed too high or If for any
cause il is not deemed for the public interest to oc
cept them.


Proposals will be sealed and addressed to General
j. W Ripley, Chief of Ordnance. W ashngton d c.. -
and will be endorsed Proposals for heavy cannon


j. w. RIPLEY,


BrigaderGeneral Chief of Ordnance.


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