The Arkansas advocate., 1832-09-26
PROPOSALS

writing and sealed, will be received E- until MONDAY, the Sth day of De- tober next, 6 o'clock, P M } for furnish Ing and delivering to the emigratihg CHoo- TAw INDIANS, COMPLETE NATIONS, togetherwith FORAGE E for teams, whilst travelling to their new country. iipon tl.. following routes, west of the Mississippi. to wit:
 From Memphis, Tennessee, via stronr's. to Mouth of Cache or White river. A. .T.
 From Helena, A. T. to Mouth of Cache or White river, A. T.
 From Mouth of Cache, via Mrs. Blacks. Erwin's settlement and Greathouse's, to Cadron creek, A. T.
 From Cadron creek. by way of the Mil- itary road, to Fort Smith, A. T.
 From Post of Arkansas, A. T. via Mrs. Blacks and Samson Gray's, to Little Rock, A. v.
 From Little Rock, via Barkman's, to Washington, Hempstead c. H., AT. ] From Washington to the new Choctaw country, near Fort Towson. The number of Choctaws to be subsisted upon the foregoing routes, together with the places upon the routes for depositine the necessary supplies, and also the time when the deliveries will be required, will be made known to the contractor as accu- rately as circumstances will permit. bv the 20tb of next month.
 The Ration will consist of one and onc- fourth pounds of fresh Beef and of three- fonrths of quart of Corn 10 each person, and q: tic rate ef fenr quarts of Salt for every one hundred persons. The proyis- ions comprising the Ration must be ofgood quality and delivered in good order. The contractors to be at every expense attending the delivery and distri,n;ien of the provisions. and the issues to be mads under the inspection and direction of an | Agent having charge of the Indians.
 The component parts of the Ration, as above stated, may be varied in the issues1 from time to time, so as to make delive- ries of one and one-fourti pounds of fresh. or three-fourths of pound of salted Pork, instead of Beef, and one pound of wheat Flour, instead of Corn.
 bonds will be required for the faithful fulflment of contracts, and persons ma- king bids are requested to accompany them with satisfactory references as to their capacities to furnish.
 The privilege of rejecting bids deemed high is reserved.
 Bidders will please address their com munications as follows:
 Proposals to furnish Rations.
 To the Principal Disbursing Agent, 1 Indian Removal,
 Little Rock, A. T. And will attend at this place on. the 9th of October, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for tho purpose of closing the contracts
 JNO. T. FULTON, .1ssisfanf Agent Choctdac Remorai.
 Little Rock, A. T. Sept. 18th, 1632. ll F. S.-The information which has been prcceived at this office from east of the Mis- sissippi, computes the number of emigrants which will enter the Territory, via Mem- Ephis or Helena. to be twenty-five hundred. About three thousand, it is supposed, will ienter via the Post of Arkansas, and there hre between three and five thousand, in IEaddition to the above number, which it | is not as yet ascertained at what point they viii enter. 1t is more than probable it will be by one or other of the above speci- fled routes. The calculation at present is. that the Indians will reach the Mississippi by the first of October next. T2w