The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-08
1T 81. Louis, Missouri.


1874 do scarlet do
I48 I" do green do
"a {" do gentinela blue do
1850 yards blue strouds
1000 I" scarlet do
$500 500 blue blue, fancy, and cray lis. = cloth
1860 blue saved list cloth
$50 green do do
4S0 scarlet do do
ass pounds worste>.. warn
g dozen cotton flo MEMBERSHIPS
66 g black silk do
40 81 cotton shaws, assorted
1880 yards domestic calico
1890 +" English and French calico
1920 bleached cotton shifting
5000 unbleached do do
4400 (" do do sheeting
$500 !" domestic checks, stripes and plaids
l26 dozen woollen socks
1880 yards plaid linsey
3,400 fannels, assorted
44G flannel shirts
500 calico shirts
IS pounds linen thread
"a 6 cotton do
36 " sewing-silk
20 gross worsted gathering
$40 pieces ribands, assorted
100 gross fancy and clay pipes
SO pounds vermlion, Chinese
500 /" beads, assorted
1900 +" brass kettles
465 tin kettles
46 nests japanned kettles (eight in nest)
36 dozen frying-pans
6G6 tin pans
GOO tin cups
Sc dozen -steels, assorted
rs Britannia and paper looking glasses
IL gross buttons, assorted
GG,00O brass nails
= 10000 fsh-hooks
100 dozen fshng-lines
.ll.~ . Us
go dozen combs
Az " scissors
13 Z" iron spoons
50 !" pewter and tin plates (one-half ofeach)
10 packs pins
7gross thnbles
81 augers
"a dozen gimblets
233 dozen butcher knives
80 gross squaw avis
$4,000 gun fnts
~ dozen strong hoes
10 gross gun worms
4lO northwest guns; two-thrda Of which must
measure So inches in the barrel, and one
third AZ inches; 100 deliverable in the city
of New York, and the residue at the place
where manufactured. Also
81 dozen axes, to weigh from 5 to S. pounds
II dozen half axes do 81 pounds
AZ dozen squaw axes do 8 do
As dozen hatchets do IL do
To be delivered at the place where manufactured.
A schedule Of the articles, with samples, may be
at the Office of the Commissions Of Indian AT.
fars, in Washington, exhibiting the amount OF
money to be expended for each article; but the de-
parnlent reserves the right to increase or diminish
The quantity Of any of the articles named subst-
tutc others in lieu thereof.
The whole amount in money to be applied to the
purchase Of goods will be about S85yO06; of which
some $4,000 will be wanted on the seaboard, and
The residue in the west Goods Of American man
ufactue, all other things being equal, will be pro-
ferrcd. /.
The party proposing to supply the articles will
make an invoice of all the items embraced in the
above list and ax the prices, in dollars and cents,
at which he or they will furnish them, deliverable
in New York and 81. Louis respectively, on or
before the fifteenth day of May next, assuming
the quantity Of each article specified in this adver-
tisement, and extending the cost, making an aggre-
gate of the whole invoice before sending i on The
an agent of the United States, who will be appointed
by the department for the purpose and to 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 If the articles not furnished
within the time prescribed or if they are of insult
cieht quality, in the opinion of the agent aforesaid,
and if within FIVE days after notice of such INSULT
cheney the party shall not furnish 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 com,
PEELED to pay therefor TO the contractor, who shall
pay the said difference to the United States.
As these goods will not be ready for delivery be-
fore the middle Of May, separate proposals will be
IeScNcu ioi utH transportation ANcW Aotk VI
ST. Louis to their destination in the Indian country,
up to first Of March nerf.
Bonds will be required, in the amount of the bids,
with two good suretes, the sufHciency of whom
to be certified by United States Judge or district
attorney, for the faithful performances Of the con-
Payment will be made after the contract is
completed and the delivery of the goods at New
York and St. Louis respectively, to nn agent of the
department, upon duplicate invoice certified by
niR1.
Communications to be marked, proposals for
Indian goods.p
The bids viii be submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that moi
made in the form and terms here prescribed:
al Tor we) propose to furnish, for the service Of
the Indian Department, the following goods, at the
prices affixed to them respectively, viz;
(IIere insert the list of goods.)
Deliverable in the city of New York, or st
Louis, on or before the --- day Of ---- next
and in of the acceptance Of his proposal, the
quantity being prescribed by the department, (ol
we) will execute contract according TO this agree
ment, and give satisfactory security to the depart
ment within eight days after the acceptance of hii
bid; and in case of failure to enter into such con-
tract and give such security, Tor WEI will pay to
hidden by me, Tor us,) and the sum which the Uni
ted States may be Obliged to pay for the art.
les"
OFricK INDIAN AFFAIRS,
September 30, l645
IT HARTLEY CRAWFORD,
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
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