Commandant Thomas Dornin Letter 17 August 1858
Commandants Office
Navy Yard Gosport
August 17th 1858
Sir,
I have received a contract for class No. 2 stone, by mail, without any accompanying letter. This contract is signed by E D McClenahan & son only. In the absence of official information I can only presume that such a contract was made, and would respectfully call the attention of the Bureau to conflicting clauses in the schedule and the contract. To whit. The schedule says the stone is “to be delivered at Fort Norfolk”. The contract provides for its being delivered “at such place or places within the Navy Yard at Norfolk as the Commandant there of may designate”.
As by your letter of the 21st may last it is urged upon me to bear in mind that neither I, the engineer, or any other official at the yard is vested with authority to modify a contract I would ask instructions of the Bureau relative to the above.
There is now a vessel load of stone at the wharf on this contract, which I have directed to be landed at Fort Norfolk where it is to be used.
Very Respectfully,
your obedient servant,
Thomas A. Dornin
Commandant
Commodore Joseph Smith
Chief of the Bureau of Yards & Docks
Washington D. C.
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National Archives, Record Group 71 Bureau of Yards and Docks
Letters Recieved from Commandants of Navy Yards -- Norfolk
Jan 1 1858 - March 31 1859
Box No. 159A, Entry 5