Annual Report (or Report) of the Secretary of War, Volumen3

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1892

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Página 84 - 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.
Página 84 - That all purchases and contracts for supplies or services in any of the departments of the Government, except for personal services, when the public exigencies do not require the immediate delivery of the article or articles or performance of the service, shall be made by advertising a sufficient time previously for proposals respecting the same.
Página 411 - The Contractor shall, at all times, keep in store at some convenient point in the vicinity of the work, a sufficient quantity of cement to allow ample time for the tests to be made without delay to the work of construction. The Engineer shall be notified at once of each delivery of cement. It shall be stored in a tight building, and each cask must be raised several inches above the ground, by blocking or otherwise.
Página 411 - To insure its good quality, all the cement furnished by the contractor will be subject to inspection and rigorous tests, and if found of improper quality will be branded, and must be immediately removed from the work ; the character of the tests to be determined by the Engineer.
Página 271 - AN ACT Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.
Página 406 - All necessary detail drawings will be furnished, and auy work not in conformity with such drawings, or differing from the requirements of the drawings or .specifications or not otherwise approved by the commanding' officer, will be rejected, and must be removed, remade, and replaced; and all work or material injured or destroyed thereby must be made good at the contractor's expense. The Government reserves the right to annul and cancel the contract in case the contractor neglects or refuses to remove...
Página 283 - The lower ends of the levers move vertically upward, being constrained by the crosshead traveling on the vertical crosshead guides. The trunnions of the gun move downward and to the rear in the arc of an ellipse. The energy of recoil is absorbed partly by raising the counterweight and partly by the...
Página 76 - 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.
Página 109 - The contractor is to clear the building and site from all refuse and rubbish, to do all refilling and grading about the walls, and to leave in neat condition the grounds occupied by him. He is to give all facilities to other contractors for performing work adjoining hid own.
Página 422 - It shall have the right to submit the same to the Secretary of War, whose decision shall be final and binding upon both parties hereto.

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