The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-30

1850 lbs. Holland Irvine
$50 sturgeon Irvine
1000 codlines
500 trout do
1000 head do
$40 lbs. brass kettles
1856 tin kettles
40 nests japanned kettles e in nest)
76 doz. bufchor knives
$4,000 gun Ants
ut st. Louis, .Msssomi.
$50 pairs 3-point white Msckinac bIankets
1S7 q DO DO Do
lO4 81 do do do
"a do gentinella blue do
$500 yards blue strouds
i' So g blue, fancy. md gray liz. Y s'e'A
372 scarlet do do
1850 g blue saved list cloth
$50 [" green do do
400 scarlet do do
4S5 pounds worste. warn
So dozen cotton do aandkerchiefs
40 Madras do
66 black silk do
40 "a cotton shawls, assorted
$500 yards domestic calico
1890 English and French calico
2,23O bleached cotton shifting
5000 unbeached do do
4,400 /" do do sheetng
$500 " domestic checks, stripes and plaids
l26 dozen woolen socks
1880 yards plaid linsey
3,400 fannels, assorted
446 flannel shirts
500 calico shirts
IS pounds linen thread
IA /" cotton do A a
SO !" sewing-silk 1 t
20 gross worsted gathering
$40 pieces ribands, assorted
100 gross fancy and clay pipes
SO pounds vermilion, Chinese
500 /" beads, assorted
1900 " brass kettles bid
465 tin kettles ftb
46 nests japanned kettles (eight in a nest)
SO dozen ffying-pans
666 tin pans
600 tin cups 3mas ~
IS dozen fre-steels, assorted
z5 |. Britannia and paper looking-glasses
- gross buttons, assorted
(6,OOO bnm nails ssa
$4,000 Ashrhooks II, s
100 doxsn fshing-lines
45,5OO needles
220 dozen combs
10 ~" scissors
Is \" iron spoons
Sos pewter and tin plates (one-haf ofeach)
l0packs pins
gross thimbes
ST. augsrs ~ laH
~ dozen gimblets
233 dozen butcher knives
81 gross sqnaw avis
$4,000 gun Hintse gg
20 dozen strong hoes
10 gross gun worms
4IO northwest guns; two-thirds of which must
MEASURE 36 inches in the barrel, and one
third AZ inches; 100 deliverable in the city
of New York, and the residue at the place
N whore manufactured. Also
N dozen axes, to weigh from to 81 pounds
A. dozen SOU souaw axes do do
As dozen hatchets do II do
To be delivered at the place where manufactured.
A schedule Of the articles, with samples, may be
seen at the Office Of the Commissioner of Indian At
fairs, in Washington, exhibiting the amount of
money to be expended for each article; but the de-
partment reserves the right to increase or diminish
the quantity Of any of the articles named, or subs-
tute others in lieu thereof.
The whole amount in money to be applied to the
purchase of goods, will be about $65 600; of which
some 1000 will be wanted on the seaboard, and
the residue in the west. Goods of American man
ufacture, all other things being equal, will be pre-
ferred. So NC
The party proposing 10 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 ST. 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 it on. The
goods will be inspected at New York or st. Louis by
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 terms Of the contract itself, which shall
contain clause, that if the articles not furnished
within the time prescribed or if they Of nsufi-
Gent 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 10 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
received for their transportation from New York or
St LOUIS 10 their destination in the Indian country
up to first Of March nsrt.
Bonds will be required, in the amount of the bids,
with two good sureties, the sufRciency Of whom
to be certified by United States Judge or district
attorney, for the faithful performance of the con-
tracts. Payment will be made after the contract is
completed, and the delivery of the goods at New
York and 81. Louis respectively, to an agent of the
Department. upon duplicate invoice certified by
HIM. fsss4 ,r
Communications to be marked, Proposals for
Indian goods ~,
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that are not
made in the form and terms here prescribed:
81 Tor we) propose 70 furnish, for the service of
the Indian Department, tho following goods, at the
prices affixed to them respectively, viz:
(EIere insert the list of goods
deliverable in the city Of New York, or ST.
Louis, on or before the -------- day Of ---- next
and in case Of the acceptance of his proposal, the
quantity being prescribed by the department, Tor
we) will execute contract according to this agree
ment, and give satisfactory security TO the depart
ment within eight days after the acceptance Of this
bid; and in case Of failure to enter into such con-
tract and give such security Tor WEI win pay to
the United States the difference between the sums
hidden by me, Tor us,) ard the sum which the Uni
ted States may be Obliged to pay for the arii-
ces"
OfrIcE INDIAN ArFAIRs,
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