The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1841-12-15
PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT., }
December 9, 1871.

December 2, 1S4l
! SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
~ Post Office Department until the oath instant
at o'clock 2. M, for furnishing the following de-
scrpton of Stationery for the period of three years
from the LIST day of January, 1912:
Best hand made Folio Post Paper plain satin
| finish.
Same, fent- lined, common distance
Best handmade Quarto Post Paper, satin finish
and of linen, laid and wove.
Best hand made Quarto Post plain white satin
finish, laid and wove.
Same, feint-lined, common distance, laid and wove
Best handmade Quarlo Post Paper blue satin
fiDisk, laid and wove.
Same, fent lined, common distance laid and wove
Best machine-made Folio Post plain
Same, Quarto Post, plain.
Best handmade Foolscap plain, satin finish and
of linen, laid and wove.
Best hand made fooscap plain, satin finish, laid
and wove.
Same, faint lined, common distance, laid and woye
Best machine-made Fooscap, plain white.
Same, fent lined, common distance.
Best Drawing Paper, q by 40 inches per sheet.
Same 80 by So I" I"
s T1ssins Paper J! as By By q q e"
Best super-royal buff Envelope Paper, smooth sur
face
Best snPer-royal white do do do
PAPER FOR BLANK BOOKS, VIZ.
Best hand made Super.roya
Do do Royal.
Best hand made Demi.
Do do Medium
Do do Foolscap.
Best Opaque No, 50, per thousand, weight not less
than or per hundred.
Bes, clarified Quills, do do do
Metallic Pens pei dozen, Perry's and Gillot's
best
Red Office Tape price per dozen for each number.
Cut-glass lnkstands, large size, per dozen.
do
Ink Maynard and Noyes, black, in quart bottles,
per dozen.
Do do do in pint do
Waters, per pound
These articles all to be Of the very best quality
which can be had from the hest manufacturers
A sample specimen of each article of Stationery
must accompany the proposal of each bidder, and the
contract will be given to that one who, in the judg
ment of the Postmaster General, Offers the best art
c es at the lowest price The samples of the success
fu bidder will be retained by the Department and all
the articles delivered under his contract will be
pared with them, and rejected if inferior.
If at any time articles of inferior quality be fur
nshed the Department will proceed to purchase others
for lis immediate use, charging the contractor with
any difference of cost over the contract price.
No bid will be considered which eontemplates more
than one price for any one article.
Each proposal must he accompanied by ample testi-
monials of the ability of the bidder to fulfil the con-
tract
Failure to deliver articles promptly when ordered,
or of quality inferior to the specimen or any attempt
TO evade the true meaning of the contract, VIII be
considered sufficient for its forfeiture, and OF
ten per cent. each payment, which will be retained
for that purpose.
The Proposals TO be addressed to the Postmaster
General and be endorsed, Proposals for Station
cry" Dec 9--dtd
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN GUNS will be
/ received at the office of the Commissioner Of In
dian Affairs, until II o'clock on the Both day OF De-
cember next for the supply of 100 Northwest Guns,
to be of American facture and to correspond in
every respect with samples which will be exhibited at
the War Department. One.half the quantity will be
required for the service of 1912 and the other for 1913
The first delivery to be made on or before the day
of May, 1912 as follows:
AT New York, 800
At St Louis 400
The second delivery be made at the same points and
at the same period in the year lS43
The Guns will be subjected to the usual proof and
inspection by an officer of the Government to be APP
pointed for the purpose whose certificate that the
contract is fully camplled with, payment will be made
in the wears 1912 and lS43, respectively after the
Guns shall have been delivered.
Contracts will be made after the bids are opened
and bonds required be executed for faithful execu
ton Of the contracts
T. HARTLEY CRAWFORD. |
DEPARTMENT OF WAR,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
22d Nopember lsil.
nov 23-t30thDec.
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