Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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Page 3572 - Act a contract or contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to carry...
Page 3572 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 3576 - States, however, reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informality in bids received whenever such rejection or waiver is in the interest of the United States. It also reserves the right to reject the bid of a bidder who...
Page 3575 - An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories and the District of Columbia.
Page 3575 - Bidders or their authorized agents are expected to visit the localities where work is to be done and to make their own estimates of the facilities and difficulties attending the execution of the work, including the uncertainty of weather and all other contingencies.
Page 3576 - No bidder will be informed, directly or indirectly, of the name of any person intending to bid or not to bid, or to whom information in respect to proposals may have been given.
Page 3576 - No claim shall be made against the United States on account of any such removal or alteration.
Page 3574 - Congress assembled, That the sum of one million dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the improvement of the Mississippi river from the head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio river...
Page 3576 - If a bidder wishes to withdraw his proposal he may do so before the time fixed for the opening without prejudice to himself by communicating his purpose in writing to the officer who holds it, and, when reached, it shall be handed to him or his authorized agent unread.
Page 3575 - ... file evidence of his authority to do so. That by a firm should be signed with the firm name, either by a member thereof or by its agent, giving the names of all members of the firm.