The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-05
PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING.
Posr OFFIcE DEPARTMENT,
M.xr 90 I9A6

May %, ls45.
TN compliance with the seventeenth section of the
L 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 &c, l842: SEALED PROPOSALS will
be received at this department until 3 p. m. Of
Saturday, the 2lst june next for executing the fol-
lowing descriptions of printing, when ordered at
any time between July /, 1S45, and June 80, 1886,
Tin quantities stated, more or less,) viz:
50 reams blanks and circulars, of one page, on
quarto post paper, per ream
40 do do of two pages, do do
do do ofthree pages, do do
do do OF four pages, do do
~ do blanks and circulars on foolscap paper, Of
one page, per ream
10 do do of two pages, do do
do do of three pages, do do
5 do do of four pages, do do
8 do mail contracts, of three pages, on folio
post paper, per ream
5 do postmasiefs' bonds, on foolscap, two on q
do oahs for postmasters assistants, and
mail-carriers, on foolscap, on sheet,
do postmasters' commissions, on folio post,
two on sheet, per ream
30 do do monthly mail registers, two on sheet,
cross ruled, on foolscap, per ream
80 do post Office blanks, royal, Is by 10 inches,
printed on both sides, and cross ruled,
per ream
80 do do small royal, % by III inches, printed
on both sides, and cross ruled, per ream
10 do accounts current, 2 on sheet, cap
10 do post bills, on fooscap, six on sheet, with
captions and signatures, per ream
$50 do do do nine on a Sheet do do do
200 do do do, ~ on a sheet, do do do
(These post bills will be required in quantities
of from one ream to twenty, as Offices may need
them.)
All book or pamphlet printing the department may
require per 1000 ems for composition, and per to-
ken for press work.
Specimens of each kind of blanks may be seen at
the messengers room in the department.
any printing not herein described be ordered, it
is to be done at price to be fixed by the depart
ment, proportonaby equal to that of the kind which
is most like it.
Paper will, in all cases, be furnished by the de-
partment, to be receipted for and accounted for by
the printer, on demand.
The work must be executed in the best manner,
with new and perfect type.
The department reserves the right to prescribe the
letter on which its printing shall be executed.
In order to secure uniformity, blank forms for
proposals will be furnished application to the de-
divdual or firm making it, and must specify the
price, and but price, for each and every item IN
the foregoing advertisement otherwise 1t will not be
considered.
Each bid must be accompanied ty ample tes-
tmony 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 persons contracting; and
in case of failure to perform the work. the contract
or and his sureties will be liable for the forfeiture
specified in the bond, as liqudated damages, 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 annu the
contract upon any failure to comply in reasonable
time.
C. JOHNSON,
May 23-law4w Postmaster General.