The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-20
PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.
Posr orSIcE Department,

May 90, i845.
IN compliance with the seventeenth section of The
Il act OF Congress, "legalizing and making appro-
priatons for such necessary objects as have been
usually included in the general appropriation Bills
without authority of law, and to fix and provide for
certain incidental expenses of the departments and
Offices of the government and for other purposes.
approved August 26, 1S42, SEALED PROPOSALS will
be received at this department until clock p. M OF
Saturday, the 2lst June next for supplying such OF
the following stationery as the department may orde,
during the year commencing LIST july 1645, and
ending 30th June, 1916, viz;
20 reams Southworths Congress extra superfne
quarto post paper, blue or white, feinl
lined, weight pounds per ream
SO reams Jesup's first class quarto post, wove oil
laid, blue or white, feint lined; weight 8.
pounds per ream
IL reams Platner, Smith, & Co. extra sup. blue
wove quarto post paper, fent lined; weight
81 pounds per ream
Is do do do white do do per ream
IL do do do unruled do do per ream
10 do Owen and Hurlbert's superior blue laid
foolscap, feint lined, per ream
5 do Southworths extra superior white wove
foolscap, feint lined, per ream
do do do white folio post to weigh not
less than l8 pounds, per ream
2 do do dc feint lined do per ream
10 reams bank folio post, blue, untrimmed 1871
by % inches, per ream
10 do do white do do per ream
2 do gilt note paper, by 5inches per ream
100 do best machine or handmade cap, weight
IL pounds per ream
SO reams small royal writing paper for blanks,
% by III inches; weight % pounds, per
ream
10 do royal do do 25 by 10 inches weight
"a pounds, per ream
ll0 do best machine or handmade quarto post,
weightS,pounds, per ream
do best yellow or buff enveloping paper,
20 by rs inches, per ream
so do best yellow or buff enveloping paper, 81
by 81 inches, per ream
do white enveloping paper, 20 by 25 inches,
fiat, per ream
$50 do double cap paper for blank post bills,
per ream
do extra snper6ne cap, hand made, for post
masters bonds, per ream
100 do royal printing paper, per ream
quires best drawing paper, 81 by 40 inches,
4 do best tracing paper, 81 by 40 inches, per
quire
50 dozen cards steel pens, {he department to have
the liberty Of selecting from all the DIFF
ferent kinds manufactured English or
American, in the market,) per dozen
cards
gross Damascus pens, in boxes, with one
dozen holders, per gross
do other steel pens in boxes, with one
dozen holders to each gross, per gross
~uoZen hiuens patent eiasuc penhouers, per
dozen
1000 opaque quilts, No. so, per 1000
J. &c dozen Monroe's black lead pencils, graduated,
- per dozen
do Cohen's red lead do do per
do 9-inch ivory folders, per dozen
100 do red tape, No. is, per dozen
l do pieces silk taste, per dozen
l do cocoa sand boxes, per dozen
do do wafer stands, per dozen
do quart bottles Maynard d Noyes's black
ink, per dozen
do do do Hover's do per dozen
! do gill bottles do ArnOld's red ink, per
IS pounds red waters, best, per pound
8 do pea do, do per pound
do best scarlet sealing wax, per pound
do prepared India rubber, per pound
dozen cut glass ink stands, 81 inches square,
pillnred or plain, per dozen
dozen letter stamps, ivory handles, per dozen
dozen penknives Rodgers's best, blades
/ do erasers, Rodgers's, ivory handles, in
cases, per dozen
do best paper shears or scissors, six inches,
per dozen
In order to secure uniformity, blank forms for
proposals will be furnished, on application to the
department.
lift be required, each bidder must furnish, with
his proposals, sample, and but one sample, Of
each article bid for.
Each article must be bid for, and no more thar
one price named for any one article.
Bids not fully conforming to the advertisement
will not be considered.
Each bid must be accompanied by ample testimo
ny of the ability of the bidder to comply with hi
proposal.
Bond, with security in twice the estimated amour
of the articles to be furnished, will Gas the law de
mands) be required of the person or persons con
tracing; and in case of failure fully to comply
with the terms of the contract the contractor an(
his suretes will be liable for the forfeiture specified
in such bond, liquidated damages, to be sued fo
in the name of the United States, in any court hav
ing jurisdiction thereof
The head of the department will, in all cases, de
eide whether the terms of the contract have beer
complied with, and reserves the power to annul tn
contract upon any failure to comply in reasonable