The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-20
PROPOSALS FOR BLANK BOOKS AND
BINDING.
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, May 90,

Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, May %, lS45.
TN compliance with the seventeenth section of the
i act of Congress "legalizing 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, 1872 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, the department may re-
quire during the year commencing LIST July, lS45,
ard ending Both June, 1916, viz:
Appropriation Legers, 6 quires each, medium,
ruled red and feint, ioith printed captions, bound
in calf, spring backs, Russla bands and ends,
and letered, per book.
| Journals, quires medium, ruled red and felnt,
calf, spring backs Russia bands and ends, let
tered and numbered, per book.
| Letter Books, quires dem, full Russia, spring
backs, ruled red and feint, letered and number
| ed, per book.
Draft Books, quires each, double cap, ruled
red and feint, with printed captions, full Russia,
spring backs and letered, per book.
| Dead Letter Registers, quires each, double
| cap, ruled red and feint, calf spring backs,
Russia bands and ends, with printed captions,
per book.
Register of Quarterly Returns, 10 quires double
| cap with printed captions, ruled red and feint,
full Russia, spring back lettered and numbered,
per book.
| Depreciation Register, quires, super royal, ex-
| ira ruling red and feint, calf Russia bands and
| ends spring back, lettered and numbered per
book.
| Register of Depositing Offices, qures medium,
ruled, red and feint, with printed captions, full
Russia, spring back, lettered and numbered, per
book.
! Fine book, quires royal, ruled red and feint,
with printed captions full Russia spring back,
| letered and numbered per book
| a Route Registers, quires each, medium, ruled
red and fent, calf, spring backs, with Russia
| bands and ends, and lettered, per book.
| 2 Appendix to Route Registers, qures each, me-
dunn ruled red and feint, calf, spring backs,
with Russia bands and ends, and lettered, per
| book. 4
Index Books to Route Registers, 5 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.
Index to Journals, quires each, cap, long folio,
ruled red and fent, half bound, calf backs and
| corners, and letered, per book.
| Register for executed contracts, 5 quires, me-
dunn, ruled red and feint with printed captions,
i calf, spring backs, and lettered, per book.
| 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 woye,
as may be preferred.
The department retains the right to increase the
number of quires in each any of the above books,
4 by allowing pro rata for the additional paper used
Half binding six volumes newspapers, calf backs
and ends, per vol.
Folding, stitching and cutting 1900 copies "Pro-
4 posals," about eleven sheets octave, per copy
| Labelling with morocco, and lettering SO books,
4 (more or less,) two labels each per volume.
/ Should any book work not herein described
be ordered, it is be done price to be fixed by
the department, proportiona.ely equal to that OF
i the kind most like it.
j 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 on application to the
| department.
/ Each proposal must be signed by the individual,
firm, making it, and must specify the price, and
j but price, for each and every item in the fore
going advertisement; otherwise it will not be con-
sidered.
/ Each bid must be accompanied by ample testi-
monias Of the ability of the bidder to perform the
work. ~
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 surctes will be liable for the for
| fixture specified in such bond, as liquidated dam
| ases, 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-
4 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,
i May 23-law4w Postmaster General.
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