The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1841-12-17
PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.

Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
December 2, lS41. :
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at the
~ Post Office Department until the 9th instant
at o'clock P. NJ. for furnishing the following de-
scrpon 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 Quaro Post Paper, satin finish,
and OF linen, laid and wove.
Best hand made Quartz Post plain white, satin
finish, laid and
Same, lined, common distance, laid and wove.
Best handmade Quarto Post Paper blue, satin
fDisk laid and wove.
Same, feint 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 handmade foolscap plain, satin finish, laid
and wove.
Same faint-lined common distance laid and wove.
Best machne-made Fooscap plain white.
Same feint- lined common distance.
Best Drawing Paper, q by 40 inches per sheet.
Same 30 by So g
Tracing Paper 10 by "a
Same by 30
Best super-royal buff Envelope Paper, smooth sur
Best superroyal white do do do
PAPER FOR BLANK BOOKS, VIZ.
Do do Royal.
Best handmade Demi.
Do do Foolscap.
QUILLS.
Best Opaque No so,per thousand, weigh, not less
than OF per hundred
Best clarified Quills do do do
Metallic Pens, pei dozen, Perrys and Giloi's
best
Red Office Tape price per dozen for each number.
Ia Lab H.. Iar, a.iya, I.Hrny
Do do small 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 or specimen of each article Of Stationery
must accompany the proposal of each bidder, and the
contract will he given to that who in the judy
ment of the Postmaster General, Offers the best ari-
full 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 its immediate use, charging the contractor with
any difference of cost over the contract price.
No bid will he considered which contenplates more
than one price for any one article,
Each proposal must he accompanied by ample est-
monals of the ability of the bidder to fufthe con
tract
Failure to deliver articles promptly when ordered,
or OF quality interior to the specimen, any attempt
TO evade the true meaning Of the contract, will be
considered sufficient cause for its forfeiture, and off
ten per cent on each payment which will be retained
for that purpose.
The Prono.als To lie addressed to the Postmaster |
General and to be endorsed Proposals for Station
cry. Dec Did
FOR INDIAN GUNS will he
i received at the office OF The Commissioner of In |
liam fairs until ~ o'clock the 30lh day OF De
,emher next for the sapply of 100 Northwest Guns,
10 be of American ma acture and to correspond IN
,very respect with samples which will be exhibited at
he War Department One half the quantity will be
eoared for the service of 1912 and the other for 1913
The frs, delivery to be made on or before the day
,f May 1912 as follows
AT New York $50.
AT St. Louis, 400.
The second delivery to be made at the same points and
At the same period in the year 1919.
The Guns will be subjected to the usual proof and
by an officer of The Government to he ap
pointed for the purpose, whose certificate that the
contract is fully camphed with, payment will be made
in tho years 1912 and 1913, respectively, after the
Guns shall have been delivered.
Contracts will be made aher the bids are opened
and bonds required be- executed for faithful execu
lion of the contracts.
+. HARTLEY CRAWFORD,
DrpARTMgNT or WAR,
OFrIcE or INDIAN AFFAIRS,
22d Norember lSil.
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