Chapter 120.
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CHAP. 120.— An act to amend chapter fifty-eight of volume twenty of the United States Statutes at Large, relating to contracts under the War Department.Mar. 3, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That chapter fifty-eight ofContracts under War Department.[20 Stat., 36](/us/stat/20/36). volume twenty of the United States Statutes at Large, entitled “An act to authorize the Secretary of War to prescribe rules and regulations to be observed in the preparation, submission, and opening of bids for 488 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 120, 121. 1883. contracts under the War Department,” be amended by striking therefrom everything following the words “War Department,” and substituting for the part of the act so stricken out the following words: " Bids, etc.“And he may require every bid to be accompanied by a written guarantee, signed by one or more responsible persons, to the effect that he or they undertake that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will, at such time as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War or the officer Bond.Failure to fulfill contract, etc.authorized to make a contract in the premises, give bond, with good and sufficient sureties, to furnish the supplies proposed or to perform the service required.
If after the acceptance of a bid and a notification thereof to the bidder he fails within the time prescribed by the Secretary of War or other duly authorized officer to enter into a contract and furnish a bond with good and sufficient security for the proper fulfillment of its terms, the Secretary or other authorized officer shall proceed to contract with some other person to furnish the supplies or perform the service required, and shall forthwith cause the difference between the amount specified by the bidder in default in the proposal and the amount for which he may have contracted with another party to furnish the supplies or perform the service for the whole period of the proposal to be charged up against the bidder and his guarantor or guarantors, and the sum may be immediately recovered by the United States for the use of the War Department in an action of debt against either or all of such persons.
” " Approved, March 3, 1883.