The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-11-14
PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN GOODS.


SEALED proposals will be received at the office
- Oh tLe Commissioners of Indian Aaars, Wash
ngt'n, H. I. until the 18th day of November, enss-
.ng, at one O'Clock r NJ for furnishing the follow
ing goods for the use of the Indians:
Mackinac blankets, various sizes and colors
Cloths of different quality and colors
Strouds, blue, green and scarlet
Fanneis assorted
Woollen socks
Worsted yarns, assorted
Lnseys
Worsted gathering
Callcoes, assorted quality
Calico and funnel shirts
Beached and unbleached cotton shifting and sheet
ing
Domestic checks, striped and plads
Cotton shawls and handkerchiefs
Black silk handkerchiefs
Sewing silk, assorted colors
Cotton and linen threads, assorted
Chinese yermillon
Beads, assorted
Pipes, do
Pins, do
Brass and lin kettles, assorted sizes
In pans and cups
Frying pans
Fire steels
Britannia and paper lined looking glasses
Avis, assorted
Buttons do
Thimbles, do
Scissors. do
Gmblets, do
Brass nails
Table knives and forks
PEWTER and tin plates
Fish hooks and lines, assorted
Combs, assorted
Axes, half axes and batchets.
schedule of the articles with samples may be
seen at The Office Of the Commissioner Of Indian Az
fairs, in Washington exhibiting the amount of money
TO be expended for each article, but the Department
reserves the right to increase diminish the quantity
OF any oil The articles named and substitute others
lieu thereof.
The whole amount in money to be applied to the
purchase of goods will be about ST. 600 Of which,
some $50 600 will be wanted the sea-board and
the residue in the West Goods of American manu-.
iacture,--all other things being equal be
preferred
such times and places 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 more sureties-
the sufciency to be certified by United States Judge
or District Attorney, will be required for the faithful
performance of the contracts and payment will BIZ
made after the contract is completed Congress hav
ing made the necessary appropriations upon a du-
plicate 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
T. HARTLEY CRAWFORD
OFFICE INDIAN AFFAIRS, }
Oct. TO- 1912 oct 1l-tl5thNov.
John SKIRVING, from Philadelphia respect
y fully informs the citizens of the District Of Co
lumbia and the surrounding country that he has re-
moved to Washington, and is now prepared to
and ventllate buildings on the most approved plans,
by warm air, water, steam fuel, wood, btumi-
nous anthracite Goals. In the country furnaces
are great preventive against fall sickness Soup
pans atters kettles, stews hot hearths, steamboat
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steam for large hotels hospitals, erected to burn
either Goals perpetual bath boilers and ovens green
houses warmed by water lues, conservatory
wamed 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
chmneys 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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