Report of the Secretary of the Navy: Communicating Copies of Contracts for the Construction of Dry-docks, Basins and Railways, at Kittery, Philadelphia, and Pensacola, and for a Floating Sectional Dock at San Francisco |
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12 inches 14-inch iron aforesaid anno Domini basin and railway bed-ways bilge-blocks boiler braces bulkheads cast-iron caulked clamps construction contract copper bolts cradle cross Dakin & Moody Dakin and Moody deck dimensions estimate fastened feet long float-sill floating dock floating dry-dock foot four framed further agreed further sum gate Gilbert and Secor halved Horatio Allen hydraulic cylinder inch-iron screw-bolts inches in diameter inches long inches square inches thick inches wide iron bolts iron screw-bolts iron spikes J. Y. MASON jogged keelsons Kittery laid letter f main tank mortises navy-yard outer ribs parties Pensacola piles plan and specifications plank posts pumps Rutherford Moody S. D. DAKIN scantling Secretary section on line sheet G ship-of-the-line sloping ribs specifications hereto annexed splice stanchions sum of twenty-three tenoned thick strake three feet tight platform timber top and bottom treenails truss-beam truss-frame trusses twenty-three thousand dollars vessels wall white-oak yellow pine Zeno Secor
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Page 24 - America in the sum of two hundred dollars, lawful money of the United States, to be paid to the said United Stales.
Page 24 - ... administrators, in the whole and for the whole, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and dated this twenty-seventh day of July, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Page 26 - And the said party of the second part, for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, doth covenant and agree to and with the said party of the...
Page 24 - Now the condition of the above-written obligation is such that if the said or either of them, their or either of their heirs executors or administrators do and shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid to...
Page 73 - States, or to its proper agent or attorney duly authorized to receive the same, to which payment, well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves and every of us, our and every of our heirs, executors, and adminT istrators, in the whole and for the whole, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Page 41 - Assigns, for the which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals, and dated this 23d day of May AD l8l2.
Page 41 - Know all Men by these Presents: That we, as principal, and as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America in the full and just sum of dollars, to be paid to the said United States of America, to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, by these presents.
Page 73 - ... then the above obligation to be void and of none effect; otherwise it shall abide and remain in full force and virtue.
Page 46 - It is hereby mutually and expressly covenanted and agreed, and this contract is upon the express condition, that no Member of or Delegate to Congress, officer of the Navy, nor any person holding any office or appointment under the Navy Department, is or shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract or to any benefit to arise therefrom, but this stipulation, so far as it relates to Members of or Delegates to Congress, shall not be construed to extend to this contract, it being made with...
Page 10 - And it is further agreed that the said party of the first part [defendant] shall not be responsible for any damage caused by fire, whether from railroad engines, or from the buildings of the said party of the first part, or by fires caused from any other means, but the risk and damage from whatever source shall be alone sustained...