The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1841-12-16
PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT, ,
., December 2, 1871.

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December 2, 1S4l.S
g EALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
- Post Office Department until the oath instant
at o'clock P. M, for furnishing the following de-
scrption 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.lned, common distance.
Best handmade Quarto Post Paper, satin finish
and of linen, laid and wove,
Best handmade Quarto Post. plain white, satin
finish laid and wove
Same feint-lined, common distance, laid and wove
| Best handmade Quaro Post Paper, blue satin
| fpiss, laid and wove,
Same fent lined, common distance. laid and wove
Best machne-made Folio Post plain
Same, Quarto Post, plain.
Best hand made Fooscap, plain, satin finish and
of linen, laid and wove
Best handmade foolscap, plain, satin finish, laid
and wove
Same, faint lined, common distance, laid and wove
Best n,achinemade Foolscap, plain white
Same feint- lined, common distance.
Best Drawing Paper, p by 40 inches per sheet
Same 30 by So
Tracing Paper IS by "A .
Same 26 by SO
Best super-royal buff Envelope Paper smooth sur
face.
PAPER FOR BLANK BOOKS, VIZ
Best hand made Super-royal
Best handmade Demi
Do do Medium.
Do do Fooscap.
QUILLS.
Best Opaque No. 50, per thousand, weight not less
| than or per hundred.
Bes; clarified Qullls, do do do
Metallic Pens pei dozen, Perry's and Gillo S
best ~af
Red Office Tape price per dozen for chnumber
Cut-glass lnkstands large size, per dozen
"a al email In
InE Maynard and Noyes black, in quart bottles,
per dozen
Do do do in pin, do
Waters, per pound
These articles all to be Of the very best quality,
which can be had from the best manufacturers.
| A sample or specimen of each article of Stationery
must accompany the proposal of each bidder and the
contract will he given to that one who, IN the JudG
ment of The Postmaster General, Offers the best arti
at the lowest price. he samples OF the success
ful bidder will be retained by the Department, and all
the art cles delivered under his contract will be
pared with them, and rejected if inferior @
If at any tine 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 the contract price.
No bid will be considered which conempates more
than one price for any one article.
Each proposal must be accompanied by ample testl-
monias of the ability OF the bidder to fulfil the con
tract.
Stature deliver articles promptly when ordered,
or of quality interior to the specimen, or any attempt
to evade the true qleaning OF the contract VIII be
considered sufficient cause for It's foreiturt, and OF
ten per cent each payment, which will be retained
for that purpose.
The Proposals to be addressed to the Postmaster
General and to be endorsed Proposals for Station
cry" Dec It'd
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN GUNS will be
| received al the office of the Commissioner of In
dian AffaIrs until IL O'Clock on the 3Olh day OF De
ccmbcr next, for the supply of 100 Northwest Guns,
to be OF American Manufacture 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 frs, delivery to be made or before the day
OF May, 1912 as follows
AT New York, $50.
At ST. Louis 400
The second delivery be made at the same points amt
at the same period in the year 1913.
The Guns will be subjected to the usual proof and
inspection by officer of the Government to be op
pointed for the purpose whose certificate that the
contract is fully camped with, payment will be made
in the years 1912 and tS43 respectively, after the
Guns shall have been delivered.
. Contracts will be made after the bids opened,
and bonds required be executed for faithful execu
ton OF the contracts,
T. HARTLEY CRAWFORD.
DEPARTMENT OF WAR,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
22d November, lSil
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