The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-12
PROPOSALS FOR BLANK BOOKS AND
BINDING.


TN compliance with the seventeenth section of the
i act of Congress "legalizng and making appro-
priations 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, 1912, SEALED PROPOSALS will be
received at this department until O'clock p m of
Saturday, the 2lst June next, for supplying such of
the following blank books, and for executing such
of the following binding, as the department may re-
quire during the year commencing LIST July, lS45
ard ending 30th June, 1876, viz:
3 Appropriation Legers, quires each, medium
ruled red and feint, icith printed captions, bound
in calf, spring backs, Russia bands and ends
and lettered, per book.
Journals, 6 quires medium, ruled red and fein,
calf, spring backs, Russia bands and ends, let
tered and numbered, per book.
4 Letter Books, quires demi, full Russia, spring
backs, ruled red and feint, etlered and number
ed, per book.
2 Draft Books, 6 qures each, double cap, ruled
red and feint, with printed captions, full Russia,
spring backs and leitered, perbook.
2 Dead Letter Registers, 6 quires each, double
cap, ruled red and fent, calf, spring backs,
Russia bands and ends, with printed captions,
per book
Register of Quarterly Returns 10 quires double
cap with printed capious, rt1sed red and feint
full Russia, spring back, ettered and numbered,
per book.
/ Depreciation Register, 8 guires super royal, ex-
ira ruling, red and fent, calf, Russia bands and
ends, spring back, lcttered and numbered, per
book.
Register of Depositing Offices, quires medium,
ruled, red and feint, with printed captions, full
Russia spring back, latered and numbered, per
book.
| Fine book, quires royal, ruled red and feint,
with printed captions, full Russia, spring back,
lettered and numbered, per book.
Route Registers, quirss each, medium, ruled
red and feint, calf, spring backs, with Russia
bands and ends, and leaered, per book.
2 Appendix to Route Registers, quires each, me-
dunn, ruled red and feint, calf, spring backs,
with Russia bands and ends, and lettered, per
book.
2 Index Books to Route Registers, quires each,
cap, ruled and feint, calf, spring backs, Russia
bands and ends, and lettered, per book.
Journals, quires each, demi ruled red and feint,
calf, spring backs, and lettered, per book,
2 Index to Journals, qures each, cap, long folio,
ruled red and fent, half bound, calf backs and
corners, and lettered, per book.
| Register for executed contracts, qulres, me-
dunn, ruled red and feint, with printed captions,
calf, spring backs, and ettered per book.
8 Letter Books, 6 quires each, medium, ruled red
and feint, calf, spring backs, Russia bands and
ends, with indexes, lettered and numbered, per
book.
The paper in the above books to be of the very
best quality, hand or machine made, laid or wove,
as may be preferred.
The department retains the right to increase the
number of quires in each any of the above books,
by allowing pro rata for the additional paper used.
Half binding six volumes newspapers, calf backs
and ends, per vol.
Folding stitching, and cutting 5000 copies "Pro-
posals," about eleven sheets octave, per copy
Labelling with morocco, and lettering 80 books,
(more or less, two labels each, per volume.
Should any book or work not herein described
be ordered it to be done at price to be fixed by
the department. proportionaely equal TO that OF
the kind most like it.
Specimens of the different books now in use may
be seen at the department
| In order to secure uniformity, blank forms for
proposals will be furnished application to the
department.
Each proposal must be signed by the individual
or firm, making it, and must specify the price, and
but one price, for each and every ilem in the fore
going advertisement; otherwise it will not be con-
sidercd.
Each bid must be accompanied by ample test.
monials of the ability of the bidder to perform the
work.
Bond, with security in twice the estimated amount
of the work to be done, will Gas the law demands)
be required Of the person or persons contracting
and in case of failure to perform the work, the
contractor and his suretes will be liable for the for
| fixture specified in such bond, as liquidaed dam
| as es to be sued for in the name of the United
States, in any court having jurisdiction thereof
| The head of the department will in all cases, de-
eide whether the terms of the contract have been
complied with, and reserves the power to annul the
contract upon any failure to comply in reasonable
| time. G. JOHNSON,
Nav 23-law4w Postmaster General.