The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-18


leo do 5 do do do seaIet
1910 yards cloth-ndigo blue-ianey and grey lis,
3oo do do grass green, do do
$500 DO do indigo blue, saved list
o5O do do grass green, do
$500 do strouds-bhe
300 do do scarlet
o0O pounds worsted ysrn-3 fold
ioo doz handkerchieis, cotton flag
iOo do do Madras
1870 do do black silk
10 do cotton shawls "a, assorted
l2,0OO yards calico, domestic
800 do do English and French
1000 do coitok, bieached shifting
1000 do do unbleached do
1000 do do DO sbeeting
1000 do do domestic checks
3,OOo do do do stripes
1900 do do do plads
200 dozen socks, WOODEN
1000 yards plaid linsey
o. w do fannels, assorted
300 flannel shirts
300 calico do
600 pounds thread, cotton
40 do do linen
40 do sewing silk
Az gross worsted gathering
1900 yards satinet
1000 do bed ticking
$40 pieces ribbons--assorted
$50 pounds beads do
IS gross clay and fancy pipes
50 pounds Vermillion
800 pounds brass kettles
500 TN kettles
80 dozen frying pans
1000 tin pans
1000 TIN cups
81 dozen fire steels
Looking glasses-Sl25 worth
20 gross buttons-assored
40 gross squaw avis
81 gross brass nails
1000 fish hooks
$50 dozen fish lines
Needles assorted-SS0 worth
2pO dozen combs, assorted
81 90 scissors do
AZ gross iron spoons
80 dozen table knives and forks
Pewter and tin plates-SI40 worth
10 packs pins
Ihimbles, s25 worth
10 auguts
Gimbleis, $40 worth
20 200 gun hlnts
80 gross gun worms
$50 dozen butcher knives
ID do
70 do haf axes
AZ do squawaxes .,.
"a do hatchets
Northwest Guns, to the amoun, of about s. 900,
two-thirds to be 80 inches in the barrel, and
one-thlrd AZ inches in the barrel.
A schedule Of the articles with samples Except
OF the plaid linssys, which be of better quality
than those heretofore acknowledgements to be pre-
sented by the bidders With their BIDS may be
The ofhce OF the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, exhibiting the amount Of money to be
expended for each article, but the Department re-
serves the right to increase diminish the quantity
of any of The articles named, substitute Others IN
lieu thereof.
The whole amount in money to be applied to the
purchase Of goods will be about SIS, 600 Of which
I'll 49, "A
the residue in the West Goods Of American man.
ufacture, all other things being equal will be pre-
ferred.
The party proposing to supply the articles will
make invoice Of all the items embraced in the
above list, AID afix the prices in dollars and cents
at which he or they will furnish them, deliverable IN
New York, (that portion of the goods wanted West
may be hidden for deliverable at st. Louis on or
before the 18th day of May next, assuming The guam
tity Of each article specified in this advertisement
and extending the cost making aggregate of the
whole invoice before sending 1t on. The goods will
be inspected at New York by an agent of the United
States who will be appointed by the Department for
the purpose and 10 ascertain the conformity of the
articles purchased with the samples exhibited, when
the contract shall be made and with the Of the
contract itself which shall contain clause that il the
articles not furnished within the time prescribed
if they OF INSULT sient quality in the opinion
of the agent aforesaid, and # within five days after
notice of such nsuhcency, the party shall not fur
Dish Others in lieu thereof, of the required quality,
the United States shall be authorized to purchase
them of others, and TO charge any increase of price
they may be compelled TO pay therefor to the con-
tractor, who shall pay the said difference 10 the Uni
ted States.
As these goods will not be ready for delivery be-
fore the middle Of May separate proposals will be
received for their transportation from New York or
ST LOUIS 10 their destination In the Indian country,
up TO first Of March ntrt.
Bonds will be required in the amount Of the bid,
with two good suretes, the suffciency of whom to
be certified by United States Judge District At
iorney for the ithlul performance OF the contracts
Payment will be made after the conirac, is compile
ted and the delivery Of the goods to agent Of the
Department, upon a duplicate invoice Ger, lhed by
HIN.
Communications 10 be marked, Proposals for In
dian goods"
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading and will be received that are not made
in The form aud terms here prescribed:
al (or ws) propose to furnish for the service Of
the Indian Department the following goods, at the
prices affixed to them respectively, viz;
(Here insert the list OF goods
Deliverable in the city of New York or St Louis
on or before the - day of -- next, and
in case Of the acceptance OF his proposal the guam
tity being prescribed by the Department, (or ~e)
will execute a contract according TO this agreement,
and give satisfactory security TO the Department,
within eight days after the acceptance Of this bid,
and in case a failure 70 enter into such contract and
give such security, (or we) will pay TO the United
states the difference between the hidden by me,
or Us, } and the sum which the United States may
be obliged to pay for the same ARTICLES"
Orrtcr INDIAN ArrNRs,
September d, ls4i
T. HARTLEY CRAWFORD,
Connis,iou,r If Todi1n .3fatys