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'1`rru: xLm.———PUBL1C CONTRACTS. 733 TITLE XLIII. PITBLIC (i‘ON'P}}ACTS. Sec. Sec. 3709. Advertisement for proposals. 3728. Home manufacturestn he preferred. 37lO. Opening bids. 3729. Bunting. 3711. Inspection of fuel in District of Co- 3730. Relinquishment ni reservations on Inmlwia. deliveries. Appointment of inspectors, &c. 3731. Name of contractor to appear on 3712. Appointment of inspectors, &c., to supplies. be notified to accoiiiitinpz officers. 3732. ['nauthorized contracts prohibited. 3713. No payment without certificates. 3733. No contract to exceed appropria- 3714. Contracts for the military or naval tion. service, how controlled. 3734. Restrictions on (·011U11t*lu‘9l1\€11t of 3715. Contracts for Army subsistence. new buildings. 3716. Advertisements for contracts for 3735. Contracts limited to one year. supplies for Quartermastefs De— IST3S_ Restriction onpurchasesof land. partment. 3737. No transfer of contract. 3717. Separate proposals for works, &c.. 3738. Eight hours to be a day’s work. required. 3739. Members of Congress not to be in- 3718. Naval supplies to he furnished by terested in contracts. contract. 29740. What interest members of Congress 3719. Guarantee. may have. 3720. Record of hid and report to Congress. 3741. 9tipulntion that no member of Con- 3721. Purchase without n•lver1isements. gress has an interest. 3722. What bids may be rejected, &e. 3742. Penalty against otlia-er for making Opening bids. contract with a member of Con- 3723. Contracts for foreign supplies for the gress. Navy. 3743. Deposit of contracts. 3724. Rejection of excessive bids. 3744. Contracts to be in writing. 3725. Hemp. 3745. ,0ath to contract. 3726. Preserved meats, &<·. 3746. Penalty for omitting returns. 3727. Flour and bread. 3747. Instructions. SBC. 3709. All purchases and contracts for supplies or services, in any Advertisements of the Departments of the Government, except for personal services, for DFoP<>·°¤l¤- shall be made by aclveitising a sufficient time previously for proposals Ngvigiu, igefg respecting the same, when the public exigencies do not require the 84, s. 10, v.12, p. immediate delivery of the articles, or performance of the service. When 229;) _ immediate delivery or performance is required by the public exigency, 385* l'pQ';f"[}$1'# "‘ the articles or service required may be procured by open purchase or J ¥—’-—` —i— contract, at the places and in the manner in which such articles are YU- S;} Sv?¢‘·<L8 usually bought and sold, or such services engaged, between individuals. Pi gwé; ' Mason r. U. S.,4 C. Cls., 495; Wentworth r. l'. S., 5 C. Cls., 302; Harveyyr. l'. $.,,8 (`. Cls., 501; Thompsods Case, 9 C. (`ls., 187. Sec. 3710. Whenever proposals for supplies have been solicited, the "P€¤l*}f1bld¤· purties responding to suc solicitation shall be duly notified of the time ;;;_},,,,,_,]gg;g_ge,._ and place of opening the bids, and be permitted to be lpresent either in S, v. 15, p. 246. person or by attorney, and a record of each bid shall t ien and there be ID 0. Sec. 3711. It shall not be lawful for any officer or person in the civil, , l‘w}f;°P";""ff?°l military, or naval service of the United States in the District of Colum- mm,;{;l_"° ° °` bin to purchase anthracite or bituminous coal or wood for the public -—--—--~» _ $€l'\'l(‘(3 except on condition that the same shall, before delivery, be ufl ·l*¥Y;_l%0·°· inspected and weighed or measured by some competent person to he H` ‘ '· ’ p' appointed by the head of the Department or chief of the branch of the _ service for which the purchase is made. The person so appointed shall. . AP1f;’l‘“"}§{'* °i b€fO1‘Q entering upon the duty of inspector, weigher, and invasurer, and mspu On" (’ to the satisfaction of the appointing office1·, give bond, with not less than two sureties, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, and with condition that each ton of coal weighed hy him shall consist of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds, and that cach cord of wood to be so measured shall be of the standard measure of one hundred and twenty- eight cubic feet. The inspector. weigher. and nieusurer so appointed