The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-12
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN GOODS.


SEALED proposals will be received at the Office
- of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, WASH
ingt9n, d. e. until the 18th day Of November, ensu-
ng, at one o'clock, +. NJ for furnishing the follow
ing goods for the use of the Indians
Mackinac blankets, various sizes and solors
Cloths different quality and colors
Strouds, blue, green and scarlet
Flannels, assorted
Woollen socks
Worsted yarns, assorted
Linseys
Worsted gathering
Calicoes, assorted quality
Calico and funnel shirts
Bleached and unbleached cotton shifting and shsst
ing
Domestic checks, striped and plaids
Cotton shawls and handkerchlefs
Black silk handkerchieis
Sewing silk, assorted colors
Cotton and linen threads, assorted
Chinese vermillion
Beads, assorted
Pipes do
Pins, do
Brass and tin kettles assorted sizes
I'm pans and cups
Frying pans
Fire stees
Britannia and paper lined looking glasses
Avis, assorted
Buttons, do
Ihimbles, do
Scissors. do
Cmblets, do
Brass nails
Table knives and forks
Pewter and tin plates
Fish hooks and lines, assorted
Combs, assorted
Axes, half axes and hatchets.
schedule of the articles, with samples, may be
seen at the Office of the Commissioner Of Indian Ar.
fairs, in Washington, exhibiting the amount of money
to be expended for each article, but the Department
reserves the right to increase ordiminish the quantity
named.
lieu thereof.
The whole amount in money to be applied to the
purchase of goods will be about ST. 600, of which,
some $50 900 will be wanted on the sea-board, and
the residue in the West. Goods of American manu-
facture,-a other things being eq,nl,-will be
preferred.
The contractors will be required to deliver them at
such times and places as may be designated in the
contracts
Separate contracts will be entered into for the
transportation to the several points Of delivery in the
Indian country. Bonds with two or more surcties--
the sucency to be certified by United States Judge
or District Attorney will be required for the faithful
performance of the contracts; and payment will be
made after the contract is completed, Congress hav-
ing made the necessary appropriations upon du-
pcate invoice accompanied by the certificate OF the
agent of the Government authorized to receive them
that the goods have been delivered in good order and
in conformity TO the contracts and samples
Communications to be marked Proposals for In
dian Goods"
L. HARlLE1 CRAWfOhO.
OFFICE INDIAN AFFAIRS,
Oct. 10, 1912. oct 1l-tl5thNov.
TOHN SKIRVlNG, from Philadelphia, respect
d fully informs the citizens of the District Of Co
umbia and the surrounding country, that he has
moved to Washington, and is now prepared to warm
and ventilate buildings on the most approved plans,
by warm air. water, or steam, fuel, wood, bitumi-
nous or anthracite Goals. In the country, furnaces
are great preventive against fall sickness. Soup
pans hatters' kettles stews, hot hearths steamboat
ers, bakers ovens, with fues, cooking apparatus by
steam for large hotels hospitals, erected TO burn
either Goals perpetual bath boilers and ovens, green
houses warmed by warm water or hues, conservatory
warmed by the pa'lor CRATES water closets and
force pumps to be worked by the winch or without,
erected CRATES set to avoid dust gas smoky
chimneys cured, no answer no pay; designs for cot
tages and landscape gardens executed Residence
on H. three doors west Of 9th street. References in
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