Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 |
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20 inches advertisement Appendix B. L. rifle battery Bethlehem Iron Company bidders bids blank cartridges block Board bolt bore breech mechanism breech-block caisson caliber 45 carriage carrier-ring cartridges casting Chief of Ordnance column complete contract contractor cylinder drawings exterior face feet finished firing firing-pin fitted Frankford Frankford Arsenal front furnished gallons gas-check Gatling gun gear groove hammer holes hoops inches inches diameter inches long inches wide iron jacket latch lathe length less lever-handle limber machine magazine manufacture metal mortar muzzle NATIONAL ARMORY officer Ordnance Department piece plates powder projectiles proposals purchase rear recess revolver ring Rock Island Rock Island Arsenal rounds screws shell shots shrinkage Smith & Wesson specimens spindle sponge spring Springfield steel forgings targets tons trigger trunnions tube turned U. S. Army vertical walls Watertown Arsenal Watervliet Arsenal weight yards
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Page 99 - When immediate delivery or performance is required by the public exigency the articles or service required may be procured by open purchase or contract at the places and in the manner in which such articles are usually bought and sold, or such services engaged, between individuals.
Page 4 - All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any of the Departments of the Government, except for personal services, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service.
Page 151 - It is better, on this account, in graduating the bottle, to make two scratches as represented in the drawing, one at the top and the other at the bottom of the curve : this prevents any future mistake.
Page 264 - Commissioner, nor any person belonging to or employed in the military service of the United States, is, or shall be, admitted to any share or part of this contract...
Page 325 - Payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our, and each of our Heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these Presents.
Page 264 - No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are concerned. All rights of action, however, for any breach of such contract by the contracting parties, are reserved to the United States.
Page 326 - ... and will give bond with good and sufficient sureties for the faithful and proper fulfillment of such contract. And we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors...
Page 4 - Hereafter the purchase of supplies and the procurement of services for all branches of the Army service may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed five hundred dollars; but every such purchase exceeding one hundred dollars shall be promptly reported to the Secretary of War for approval under such regulations as he may prescribe.
Page 16 - That the provision contained in the act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, and for other purposes...
Page 272 - ... required, and, if it is accepted, will, after receiving •written notice of such acceptance, enter into contract within the time designated in the advertisement, with good and sufficient sureties for the faithful performance thereof.