THE. DAILY EVENING TELEGRAM PHILADELPHIA, TUESDA5T, AUGUST 2, 18TQ.
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COMPLETION Or ST.
CATHtlEDAL.
nt'L's
Vm the loiuie Saturday Jltvieu,
Completion of St. FauTn ! Is St. Paul's,
then, unfinished? If no, how comes it to be
o? And if ho, how is it that it remains in
complete ? In answering those questions we
are driven into considerations at once histori
cal, ens the tic, and, to use a sonorous word,
moral. First, as to the historical facts. As
everybody knows, old St. Paul's was de
stroyed in the groat lire of London in 1 '.
The cost of rebuilding the city, including St.
Paul's and the parish churches, was defrayed
by a tax on coals." But this public impost
was, in the case of the cathedral, supple
mented by private contributions; indeed, it
was a tradition, even in those remote and
pre-historio days when subscription lists
were not, that St. Paul's was a national con
cern. When old St. Taul's was tampered
with under the name of restoration by Inigo
Jones, contributions were sought from and
given by all sorts of notables. In Stuart
ays as much as 100,000 was raised for this
purpose, and Laud encouraged or imposed
voluntary gifts, especially from bishops and
Ohurch dignitaries, which looked very
like those benevolences to the Crown which
the people contributed because they could
cot help doing so. A single city merchant,
Bir Paul Pindar, gave as much as .10,000
After the fire the portion of the coal-tax
which went to the rebuilding of St. Paul's
was again helped by voluntary contributions,
which reached to a sum of more than
120,000, and somehow or other, after thirty
five years' struggle, St. Paul's was so far com
pleted that it was weather-tight and covered
in; that is to say, about 740,000 was ex.
pended on its ponderous walls, its stately
dome, and its magnificent exterior. Sir
Christopher Wren . received the usual
reward of benefactors of the human
race. Envy and detraction, meanness
and calumny did their work. The great
architect who had received the mngniUceut
salary of '200 a year for doing a work which
a century and a half, nineteen Popes, and a
dozen architects had failed to do at llome
for at the present moment St. Peter's is, like
St. Paul's, unfinished was charged with
"frauds and abuses, and dismissed from his
work at the age of eighty-seven, in the year
1718. A king, George I, had arisen who knew
not Joseph, and St. Paul's was never com
pleted, except in that sense in which a private
nobleman's house may be said to be com
pleted in which the interior walls are not
panelled or paporod, which is totally without
fittings or decorations, which has neither
ceilings nor furniture. The coal tax was
wanted for other purposes, the surveyor's
place was wanted for some German favorite;
the Georgian era had sot hi. This incom
pleteness of the Cathedral of Loudon, which
was a hundred and fifty years ago a parsi
monious necessity, is now a huge and
scandalous and standing obloquy on the fame
and name of England.
That it was not intended as porhant may
be pretended by those who, like that eminent
economist Judas Iscariot,may tell us that money
ppent in church magnificence were bolter
given to the poor that St. Paul's should ex
hibit its actual cold, desolate, chilling, and
repulsive interior as normally characteristic
of what is called Protestant simplicity, is not
a matter either of conjecture or of a priori
Erobability. Wren has left on record what
e meant to do with St. Paul's. His "designs
for its completion are k( ill, not in their en
tirety, but in their main featuros. extant.
He intended to "beautify" the interior "with
the more durable ornament of mosaic work,
which strikes the eye of tho beholder with a
most magnificent and splendid appearance,
and which, without tho least decay of
colors, is as lasting as the building
itself." He went so far as to lay
plans for the introduction of tho art from
Italy, he and Bishop Coiopton negotiated for
the purchase of Levantine marbles. He dis
tinctly states that the existing "painting and
gilding of the east end were only intended to
serve the present occasion till such time as
materials could be procured for a magniuoont
design of an altar, consisting of four pillars
wreathed, of the richest Greek marbles, sup
porting a canopy heuiinpherical, with proper
decorations of architecture and sculpture, for
which the respective drawings and a model
were prepared." Sir James Thomuill's
trumpery piotures in the dome, done at forty
shillings a yard square, and put up against
Wren's wish, boar the same relation to the
real art with which Wren intended St. Paul's
to glow as a lath and plaster arch at a town
holiday docs to the Arch of Titus.
From those days to these St. Paul's has
been left as Wren left it. Now, as then, "tho
fluted pilasters of planter, painted with blue
paint, and veined with gold, at the east end
of tho choir," in mock ultramarine, which
originally coBt A'1.10, remain on eyesore to
taste and a scandal to propriety. As far as
anything was done in the way of decoration,
it was done by the painter and grainer "Wil
liam Thonipson," at the humble figure of -is.
per yard. It is true that there have been
protests, faint and intermittent, against this
sordid neglect. In the young and fervid days
of the nascent lloyul Academy, such a man as
Reynolds proposed to introduce paintings
into the interior of St. 1'aid'n; but with all
due acknowledgments for the spirit of the
artists of those days, it is a niattor
of congratulation that the distinguished
artist who ruined New College Chapel at Ox
ford and. St. George's at Windsor, as far as
decoration is concerned, together with Mr.
Benjamin West, ami Angelica Kauffmuu, aiut
Mr. Dance, and Mr. Cipriani, were nravfnfnd
Mr. Dance, and Mr. Cipriani, were prevented
bv the stupid opposition of those famous
prelates, Archbishop Cornwallis and Bishop
Terriok, who refused their consent to tlw
scheme, though it was warmly approved of
by the Dean, afterwards Bwhop, Newton.
The completion of St. Paul's , was left tor
better days, even for our own. II 4 1 tho
thing been done in the Jaijt century, it would
only have been half done, and the htlf would
have been a miserable faikuv.i Neither the)
publio Bpirit nor the . artistic skill wus forth
coming. The day of the renewed iimi-tieo
and study of Christian art had not ri.u.
The late Doan Henry Hart Miluiau, poet,
historian, and, if tot an artit, peiiotratoi
with arlintio feelings, wa the tirt t.
net about tLe rel work of completing
the cathedral of wbic he was ; tha
official custodian. But the design t' soma
extent failed. It comprised t0 objects,
which, if not incongruous, wer h..-3r.-elv
homogeneous. There was rather to ma Ai
of perhaps necessary policy in hid propotthU.
Availing himself of the popular taeta f ji
popular evening services, the late Dean, wit ti
the consent of Lis chapter, ten or twelve
years ago at-ked for fnnds to tit upthodjuu
space for these special services, and threw oat
proposals not very explicit or imposing for
decorating the interior. Huh measures nel
doui answer. The money wa-j not very well
spent; a huge and unsightly organ was intro-
duced at enormous
eipense into the south
tirnscpt, and a few li.v
ns of feUding, and two
. !n laterni... l..
highly creditable
the
mosaie pictures wera executed. Enough was
done to show that more must be done, and
more completely; and the expenditure on an
avowed experiment was not without its valne.
Very recently Dean Mil man's scheme has
been revived, and with a force and emphasis
which alone can seoure sucoess. There is no
timidity or half-heartodncss about the pro
moters of the present attempt to complete St.
Paul's. They are to be credited with Jthat
boldness which is the first and usually most
successful element in promoting a great work.
We have seen the appeal, which we under
stand will be presented to a great publio
meeting, to be held at the Mansion House on
Wednesday next. The great leaders in
Church and State have undertaken to advo
cate a cause which enlists no party views,
and addresses itself only to a national and
religious necessity, and sfteks to romove a
national disgrace. Mr. Gladstone and Mr.
Gathorne Hardy and tho Earl of Carnarvon
represent the groat political parties; art,
commerce, and property will bo combined to
acknowledge their respective duties, and to
urge upon others claims which their repre
sentatives admit in their own persons. The
promoters of the plan wisely, we think,
ask for subscriptions in instalment: for
the work which they undorUke must ex
haust many years in its completion, and much
time and consultation in settling it.
There ought to be no doubt as to the an
swer which the public will give to this de
mand. What has been done or what is doing
in almost every diocese in England, there
ought to be no hesitation about as regards
the largest and wealthiest city in the world.
London can scarcely afford in common de
cenoy to leave undon a what such plaoes as
Ely and Hereford cheerfully undertake. If Sir
Paul Pindar two hundred and fifty years ago
gave 10,000 to this very St. Paul's; if, only
the other day, Sir B. Guinness expended for
the honor of bis own city as much as 150,
000 on such a cathedral as St. Patrick's; if we
find it announced that tho territorial mag
nates are at tho present moment subscribing
their fives and tens of thousands ol pounds
for tho cathedrals of . Gloucester and Chester,
the '2.r0,000 which is asked for in the
case of St. Paul's amounts, as re
cards such a city as London, to the pro
verbial flea-bite. If Bristol can build that
half of its church which was never b uilt, and
at the same time complete that queen of
parish churches, St. Mary lledcliff, it is
ridiculous we can find no better word for it
to think of leaving St. Paul's as it is.
Country folks and the "intelligent foreigner"
only laugh at us when we talk of the difficul
ties of the work. That the chief church of
the richest city in the world should be con
spicuous even among parish churches in those
days of art and culture, church building,
church restoration, anil sumptuousness even
in markets, town halls, and Manchester
warehouses, for its blanknoss, desolation,
and barbarous dulness, is one of our inex
plicable Encrlish facts. It is not to be ac
counted for, and to justify it in puerile and
impertinent. There it is. It won't do to
say that St. Paul's ought to remain plaster
and wash, when, as a matter of fact, we gild
and paint and inlay and carve our own
ceiled houses and our own shops every day.
There is an eating-house in the Poultry just
finished which exhibits ten times the splen
dor of St. Paul's. The memorial to Princo
Albert and its costliness would probably ex
ceed both in amount and elaboration what is
proposed to be done at St. Paul's by five or
ten times the cost proportions of size being
allowed for. The time has come the art has
come the men and tho skill will not be found
lacking will the spirit and heart of England
fail to answer tho call? The City of London
itself, in which during the last twelve years
perhaps twice as much has been spent in
private structures of very groat architectural
pretence and considerable architectural suc
cess as is asked for at St. Pauls,
furnishes the best omen for a St. Paul's which
we need not be ashamed of. The Thames
Quay and the new City streets announce
whftt the groat City church must be. Wo are
told that the City companies and many great
City men are getting enthusiastic. Wo hoar
of 2000 promised in one quarter if 100,000
is raised in a twelvemonth. Before the
scheme comes before the public several single
gifts of 1000 each are guaranteed. And
what, after all, is 2.10,000 to London mer
chants, to owners of London house property,
to the firms and corporations whose annual
profits are rockonod by five or even six
ciphers ?
The fact is that people dou't lovo London
or feel the pride they ought to feel in Lon
don. Fart of this feeling is affectation, and
part mere fiunkeyism. London is a city ' to
be proud of; the old reproach of its squalor
and ugliness is being rapidly wiped away.
More expenditure in architectural splendor,
and on the whole more rr.l taste, has been
shown of late in London than in any other
capital in Europe. It is our stupid English
habit to vilipend our own successes. Our
geese are not so much swans as goslings or
ducks, lie reconstruction of tho Blgravian
quarter is ten times better than a Hanxsmau
nized Paris. The Law Courts, if srdidnuss
and Ajitouism do not interfere, will
far exceed anything done by German
professors and royal dilettantism
on the Continent. Everybody has an interest
in liondon architecture; everybody who is
connected with the Government, tho law,
and the trade of the empire. St. Paul's bo-
longs to the citizens, but it also belongs to
the West-enders and the country families and
the season immigrants. St. Paul's belongs
to Manchester and Liverpool, and, for tha
! matter of that, to Australia and Canada and
India, St. Paul's is the cynosure of the em- i
pire. It is not a rueduovul structure, to lie
sure, and does not precisely assimilate with
medifoval feelings; and everybody gives, aud
fciveR because It ia the fashion, to medi.nvul
churches. Dut it is the ouly great and
Kuwptuous church of the first-class whioh
the Church of England a it U has built, as it
were, on it own ground. Ht. Peters wu
built, we admit, but it was butlt by contribu
tions which, in the way of indulgences,
' shattered the fctron fabrio of the Latin
' Chnrch. The completion of St. Paul's will
be a tacH but Bippiinennt hint to certain so
i tailed Q'.ciunouical Councils. It will prove
' that English Churchmen have ouuuMeuce iu
I themselvcH. fct. Peter 'a rose At the expanse
! of the bent fcrni'itoai lntereta ol tne oolu-
luuniou of which it is the noblest maternl
Btruttnre. AVLat if it shall have beeu re
served for the Church of England to com
plete Ht. Paul s us the symbol of the English
revival of religion and the proof of the hold
which English worship has on the English
mind? lint apart from these important e-o-eltsiahlichl
considerations, the present ap
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us a work truly national of the greatest
art istio interest and value ud as an oppor
tunity which we are convinced jvill not be
LCfclected of wiping out a scandal and re-
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timony in the case be closed on tho With day of
SEPTEMBER next, that the time lor filing argu
ments and the Examiner's report no umitea to tne
both day of SfcPTKMBKR next, and that aaid petl
tion be heard on tbe 6th day of OCTOBER next.
Any perison may oppose this extension.
3 V . SAMUEL S. FISHER,
7 '20 tu St Commissioner of Patents.
STATE RIGHTS FOR BALE. STATE
Right! of a Taloible InTtntion )ut patented, and for
tbe 6L1C1KQ, (JU 1 1 1MU, and OUIPPIMG of dried bef,
eabbaie. etc.. are hereby ottered for aale. It is an axtloie
of great value to proprietors ef hotels and restaurants,
audit ehouid be introduced Into every f amlljr. 814X8
KKl li'l'8 for aale. Med el oan be seen at THXKGliAPU
oioK.ooopgB 6 waxwtHOffM1B
WATER PURIFIERS.
yAKSON'S
New
l'nteut Water
Purifier
Filter and
Yl ill effectually eleaoee from all IMPURITIK.S, and re
move all foul taste or smell from water passed through it.
In operation and for sale at the MANUFA0TORY, No
lt)0 DOCK Street, and by House-f ornlshing Store
feneralll. "
COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS, OF ALL
Vj numbers and brands. Tent, Awning, Trunk,
and Wagon-cover Duck. Also, Paper Manufac
turers' Drier Felts, from thirty to aeventy-eU
inches, w!h Faniins, iiw, iiTwie, eio.
' JOuLN VV. skViuidlAN,
NO. 10 CHURCH Street (CUj ttWrenL
PROPOSALS.
11ROPOSAI.S FOR STAMPED ENVELOPES
AND NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS.
Post OrFim Dkpaktmknt, July 11, 19T0.
REALED PROPOSALS will bo received nntu U
o'clock M., on the 11th days of Augiint, ISTo, for
furnishing ail tl.e ''Stamped Envelope," and "News
paper Wrappers" which this Department may re
quire daring a period of four (4) years, commencing
on the 1st day of October. 1870, vis :
STAMPED ENVELOPES.
No. 1. Note alee, t by 6 v Inches two qualities.
No. 8. Ordinary letter site, 8 1-18 by 6)4 inches
throe qualities.
No, 8. Full letter size, z; by 6 Inches three
qualities.
No. 4. Full letter size, (for circulars), nngummed
on flap, 8' by fyf Inches one quality.
No. 6. Extra letter size, 8"tf by 6, Inches threo
qualities.
No, ft. Extra letter size, 8 by Inches (fer cir
culars,) nngummed on flap one quatilty.
No. 7. Oillclal size, 3 18-14 by 8; inches two quali
ties. No. 8. Extra ofllclal size, 4' by 10 V Inches one
quality.
STAMPED NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS.
Six and a flve-clghths by 9 inches (round cut)
one quality.
EMBOSSING, WATER-MARKS. PRINTING,
RUL1NO PAPER STYLE OF
MANUFACTURE.
All of the above Envelopes and Wrappers must be
embossed with pontage stamps, of sach denomina
tions, styles, and colors, must have such water
marks or other devices to prevent imitation, and
bear snch printing and ruling as the Postrnaster
(leneral may direct. The envelopes mast be made
In the most thorough manner, equal in every respect
to the samples furnished to bidders by the Depart
ment, The paper mast be of approved quality,
specially manufactured for the purpose.
Whenever envelopes are order of the styles known
as "Black-lined" or "Self-ruled," (lines printed In
side, or ruled on the face), the same shall oe fur
nished without additional cost, tho contractor
to pay all charges for royalty In the use of
patented inventions for said lined or ruled
envelopes.
The dies for embossing the postage stain ds oh
the envelopes and wrappers are to be executed to
the satisfaction ef the Postmaster-General, lu the
best style, and they are to be provided, renewed
and kept In order at the expense of the contractor
The Department reserves the right of requiring new
dies for any stamps, or denominations of stamps
not now need, and any changes of dies or colors
shall be made without extra charge.
iiefore ciosimr a contract the successful bidder
may be required to prepare and submit new dies for
the approval of the Department, Tho use of the
present dies may or may not be continued.
'i ne dies snu.ii oe saieiy ana securely Kept iv the
contractor, and should the use of any of them be
temporarily or permanently discontinued they shall
oe promptly turned over to mo ueparcmout, or its
agent, as the Postmaster-General may direct.
GUM.
The envelopes must be thoroughly and perfectly
gummed, the gamming on the flap of each (except
for circulars) to be put on by hand not less than half
an inch the entire length ; the wrappers to be also
hand-gummed not less than three-fourths of an Inch
in width across the end.
SECUhlTY FROM FIRE AND THEFT.
Bidders are notified that the Department will re
quire, as a condition of the contract, that the en
velopes and wrappers shall be manufactured aud
stored in such a manner as to insure security against
loss by tire or theft.
The manufactory must at all times be subject to
the Inspection of an agent of the Department, who
will require the stipulations of the contract to be
faithfully observed.
PACKING.
All envelopes and wrappers must be banded In
Sarcels of twenty-five, and packed In strong paste
oard or straw boxes, securely bound on all the
edges and corners with cotton aud linen cloth, glued
on, each to contain not less than two hundred and
fifty of the note and letter sizes, and one hundred
each of the oillclal or extra oillclal size, separately.
The newspaper wrappers to be packed in btxes, to
contain not less than two hundred and fifty each.
The boxes are to be wrapped and securely fastened
In strong manllla paper, and sealed, so as to safely
bear transportation by mall for delivery to post
masters. When two thousand or more envelopes
are required to till the order of a postmaster, the
straw or pasteboard boxes containing the same
must be packed in strong wooden cases, well
strapped with hoop-Iron, and addressed ; but when
less than two thousand are required, proper labels
of direction, to be famished by an agent of the De
partment, must be placed npon each package by the
contractor. Wooden cases, containing envelopes
or wrappers, to be transported by water routes,
must be provided with suitablo water-proofing. The
whole to be done under the inspection and direction
of an agent of the Department.
DELIVERY.
The envelopes and wrappers must bo furnished
and delivered with all reasonable despatcli, complete
In all respects ready for use. and in such quantities
as may be required to till the dally orders of post
masters; tho deliveries to be mado cither at the Post
Olilce Department, Washington, D. C, or at the ottlce
of an agent duly authorized to inspect and receive
the same ; the place of delivery to be at tho option
of tbe Postmaster-General, and the cost of deliver
ing, as well as all expense of Htoring, packing, ad
dressing, labelling, aud water-proollng to be paid by
the contractor.
SAMPLES.
Specimens of the envelopes and wrappers for
Which proposals are Invited, showing the diirerent
qualities and colors of paper required, tho cuts,
and style of gumming, with blank forms of bids,
may be had on application to- the Third Assistant
postmaster-General.
This advertisement and a specimen of the sample
envelopes and wrapper furnished by the department
mast be attached to and made part of each bid.
GUARANTEE.
No proposal will be considered unless offered by
a manufacturer of envelopes, and accompanied by
a satisfactory guarantee signed by at least two re
sponsible parties.
AWARD AGREEM ENT BONDS.
Tbe contract will be awarded to the lowest re
sponsible bidder for all tbe envelopes and wrap
pers, the prices to be calculated on tho baals of tne
number used of the several grades daring tae last
fiscal year, which was as follows:
Note size 1,4CS,2:50
Letter size, first quality 60,401,600
Letter size, second quality S.SKW.J.'rf
Letter size, second quality (ungummed).... 3,618,000
Extra letter Blze, nrst quality 6,S16,76U
Extra letter size, second quality (un
gummed) 454.000
Oillclal size rxW.iwo
Extra oniclal size B.loo
Newspaper wrappers 4,96,'o
Total 86,259,500
. Within ten days after the contract nas oeen
awarded, the successful bidder shall enter into an
agreement In writing with tho Postmaster-General
to faithfully observe and keep tho terms, conditions,
and requirements set forth in this advertisement,
according to their true intent and meaning, and
shall make, execute, and deliver, subject to the
approval and acceptance of the Postmaster-General,
bonds with good and sunlcicut sureties in the
sum of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars (foo.ooo)
as a forfeiture for the faithful performance of said
agreement or contract, according to the pre
visions and subject to the liabilities of the seven
teenth section of an act of Congress entitled
"An act legalizing aud miking appropriations for
such necessary objecin as have been usually Included
iu the general appropriation bills without authority
of law, and to fix and provide fer certuin Incidental
expenses of tbe departments and otllces of the Gov.
ernment, and for other purjiosrs," (United States
Statutes at Large, vol. 6, page 'JO, approved August
V, lHi'i, which act provides that lu case the con
tractor shall fall to comply with tho terms of his
contract, "he ana his sureties shall bo liable for
the forfeiture specified in such contract us liqui
dated damages, to be sued for lu the naiue of th
United States in any court having jurisdiction
thereof."
RESERVATIONS.
The! Postmaster-General reserves to himself tho
following rights:
1. To reject any and all bids, If, In his judgment,
the interests of tbe Government require it.
8. To annul the contract whenever the saino or
any part thereof Is oircred for sale for the purposo of
speculation ; and under nocircumstauces will a trans
fer of the contract be allowed or sanctioned to auy
party who shall be, In the opinion of the I'ostmaster
General, less able to fulfill the conditions thereof
than the original contractor.
8. To annul the contract, if, In his Judjmient, there
shall be a failure to perform faithfully auy of ita sti
pnlations, or in case of a wilful attempt to Impose
upon the Department Envelopes or Wrappers in
ferior to sample.
4. U the contractor to whom the first award may
be made should fail to enter into agreement and
give satisfactory bonds, as herein providod, then
the award may oe annulled and the contract let to
tUe next lowest responsible bidder, and so on uutu
therequued agreement and bonds ate executed;
ard such next lowest bidder shall bo required to
fulfil every stipulation embraced herein as if he
were the original party to whom the coutract was
awarded., BIDS''' "
Should be securely enveloped and scaled, marked
"Proposals for Stamped Euveiopea and Newspaper
Wrappers," and addressed to the Third Assistant
FoBtuiaster-Geuorai, Wdilne-ton. TV ?
JOHM A. J. CMttSWMLL,
13.eo4 131 tmju)ta-Cruaural.
PROPOSALS.
TROrOSAL3 FOR NAVAL MATERIAL.
Natt DHPARTvfctrr,
4.
Bureau of Eouifmbkt and Rbchvittno,
July it. 1R70.
SEALED PROPORAL8 to furnish material for thfl
Navy for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1871, will be
received at this Bureau until 10 o'clock A. M. of the
6th of August next, at which time the proposals will
be opened.
The proposals must be addressed to the "Chief of
the Bureau of Kqnlpment and Recruiting, Nay
Department, Washington," and must be indorsed
"Proposals for Materials for the Navy," that thej
may be dlst'nguished from other business letters.
Printed schedules for any class, together with in
structions to bidders, giving the forms of proposal,
of guarantee, and of certificates of guarantors, will
be furnished to such persons as desire to bid on ap
plication to the commaBdants of the respective
navy ysrds, and those of all the yards on application
to the Bureau.
The Commandant of each navy yard and the pur
chasing Paymaster of each station will have a copy
of the schedules of the other yards, for examination
only, in order that persons wno intend to bid may
judge whether it is dcslrablo to make application for
any of the classes of those yards.
The proposals mast be for the wholo of a class,
and all applications for information or for the ex
amination of samples must be made to the Com
mandants of the respective yards.
The proposals must bo accompanied by a certifi
cate from the Collector of Internal Revenue for the
district in which the bidder resides that he has a
license to deal in the artlc.es for which be proposes,
and he must further show that he Is a manufacturer
or or a regular dealer in the articles which he offora
to supply. The guarantors must be certified by the
Assessor of Internal Revenue for the district In whioh)
they reside.
The contract will bo awarded to the person who
makes the lowest bid aud gives the guarantee re
quired by law, the Navy Department, however,
reserving the right to reject the lowest bid or anf
which it mav deem exorbitant.
Sureties in the full amount will be required to
sign the contract, and their responsibility must bo
ccrtmed to the satisfaction of the Navy Department.
As additional security, twenty per centum will bo
withheld from the amount or the bills nntil the con
tract shall have been completed, and ehrhty per
centum of the amount of each bill, approved in
triplicate by the Commandant of the respective
yards, will lie paid by tne Paymaster of the statlou
designated In the contract In funds or certificates,
at the option of the Government, within ten days
after the warrant for the same shall have been
passed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The classes of this Bureau are numbered and de
signated as follows:
No. 1 Flax Canvas, etc ;No. 13 Soap and Tallow.
No. 2 Cotton Canvas.eto.iNo. 14 Ox hides for rope.
o. a v oLirOii nammocK io. io DrusiieM.
line and Cot stair.
No. 1 Ship Chandlery.
No. IT Tar and Tar Oil.
No. 18 .stationery.
No. 4 Iron and SteeL
Mo. 6 Galley Iron. . .
No. T Chain Iron.
No. 8 Hardware.
No. 9 Cooking Utensils.
No. 11 Tin aud Zinc
No. VI Leather.
No. 19 Dry Goods.
No. 80 Firewood
coal.
No. 21 Sand.
and
CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD.
Classes Nos. 2, 3, 4, S, 9, li, 13, 14, 15, 10, 17,
18, 20.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
Classes Nos. 1, 2, 8, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 1S,
SO, 81.
PHILADELPHIA.
ClasseB Nos.
, 8, 8, 12, 16, IT, 18, 19, 20.
WASHINGTON.
Classes Nos. 2, 4, 6. 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 30.
NORFOLK.
Classes Nos. 2, 3, 9, 9, 11, 12, 13, IB, 16, 17, 18, 19, iX
PORTSMOUTH, N. 11.
Classes Nos. 2, 8, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2
8L. tu4w
rpo CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. SEALED
X PROPOSALS, indorsed "Proposals for Building
a Public School-house in tbe Twentieth Ward," will
te received oy tne undersigned at ineonice, south
east corner of SIXTH and ADELPHI Streets, until
THURSDAY, August 4, 1870, at 12 o'clock M., for
building a Public School-house on a lot of ground
situate on Eleventh street, below Thompson
Twentieth ward.
Said school-house to be built In accordance with
the plans of I. IL Esler, Superintendent of School
Buildings, to be seen at the oulce of the Hoard ol
Public Education.
No bids will be considered unless accompanied by
a certificate from the City Solicitor tnat the provi
sions of an ordinance approved May 25, i860, have
been compiled wlth.
The contract will be awarded only to known mis
ter builders.
By order of the Committee on Property.
H. W. HALLIWELL
1 80 23 2C 30aul 4 Secretary.
TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
SEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed "Proposals for
BulldlDg a Publio School House in the Twenty
first Ward," will be received by the nndersigued,
nt the oillce, southeast corner of SIXTH and ADEL
PHI Streets, until THURSDAY, August, 4, 1870, at
12 o'clock M., for building a Public School House on
a lot of p round situate on Washington street, Mana
yunk, Twenty-ilrst ward.
Said School House to be built in accordance witn
the plans of L. II. Esler, Superintendent of School
Buildings, to be seen at the oillce of the Board of
Public Education.
No bids will bo considered unless accompanied by
a certificate from the City Solicitor that tho provi
sions of an ordinance approved May 20, i860, have
oeen compiled witli. The contract will be awarded
only to known master builders.
By order of the Committee on Property.
H. W. 11 ALU WELL,
7 20 23 26 30 aul 4 Secretary.
OITV ORDINANCES.
COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA,
Clerk's Office, )
Philadelphia, July 8, 1870. J
In accordance with a resolution adopted by
tho Common Council of the city of Philadelphia
on Thursday, the 7lh day of July, 1870, tha
annexed bill, entitled "An Ordinance to Create
a Loan for a I louso of Correction," Is hereby
jmbliebed for public information.
John Eoksteis, .
Clerk of Common Council.;
AN ORDINANCE "
To Create a Loan for a House of Correction.
Section 1. Tho Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the
Mayor of Philadelphia be and he ia hereby
authorized to borrow, at not Ices than par, on
the credit of the city, from time to time, for a
Ilouso of Correction, five hundred thousand
dollars, for which Interest, not to exceed tha
rate of six per cent, per annum, shall bo paid
half yearly on the first days of January and
July, at the oflice of the City Treasurer. The
principal of said loun shall be payable and paid
at the expiration of thirty years from the data
of the same, und not before, without the consent
of the holders thereof,' and the certificates
therefor, in the usual form of the certificates of
city loan, shall be Issued in such amounts as the
lenders may require, but not fr any fractional
fart of one hundred dollars, or, If required,
u amounts of five hundred or one thousand
dollars; and it (hall be expressed ia said certifi
cates that the loan therein mentioned and tha
intcrci-t thereof are payable free from all taxes.
Section H. Whenever any loan shall bo raada
by virtue thereof, there shall be, by force of this
ordinance, annually appropriated out of the.in
coino of the corporate estates and from the
f mu raised by taxation a sum euHlclont to pay
the interest oa said certificates; and the farther
turn of three-tenths of one per centum on the
par value of such certificates so issuod, shall be
appropriated quarterly out of said income and
taxes to a sinking fund, which fund and its ac
cumulations are hereby especially pledged for
the redemptiou aud payment of said certifi
cates. -
RESOLUTION TO PUBLISH A LOij
BILL.
Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Conn
til be authorized to publish In two daily news
papers of this city daily for four weeks, tha
ordinance presented to tha Common Council
on Thursday, July 7, 1870, entitled "An ordi
nance to create a loan for a House of Correc
tion;" and the said Clerk, at the stated meeting
of Councils after the expiration of four week
from the first day of said publication, shall pre
sent to this council one of each of said, news-
apers for every day In which the same shall
u e been made. 7 8 24t
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I JOHN T. BAILEY,
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