The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-12

next for furnishing the following articles of sta
onery for the use Of the Senate, each article to b
of the very best quality and to be approved by thu
Secretary, viz:
$50 reams cartridge paper
SO do white quadruple cap paper, smooth
surface, for envelopes
$50 do white single fiat cap paper, smooth
surface for envelopes
90 do white velum cap paper, satin finish
plain
20 do white vsllum cap paper, satin finish
100 do white veum quarto post paper, satir
finish, feint lined
SO do white yellum quarto post paper, satir
finish, plain
IS do white note paper, satin finish
10 do fancy tinted note paper
9 do blotting paper
10 dozen cap portfolios
2 do post portfolio
gross black-lead pencils
3 dozen red-ead pencils
do four-olade penknives, pearl handles
3 do four-blade penknives, offs smaller size
5000 clear quilts, No. 80
1000 opaque quilts, No. 80
Z dozen aa wafer stamps oh i.;
u do ivory folders, inches long and inch
10 gross large barrel steel pens
10 do small barrel do
10 do Windle's bullion pens
100 cards Perry's threepoint pens
81 do do fat-spring do
S gross Gillot's Peruvian pens
! do small pen handles
! do large do
2 do half-pint Jugs black ink
dozen ounce bottles red ink
rs pounds red waters, in canisters
dozen boxes Transparent waters
100 pounds red sealing-wax, ten sticks to the
pound
100 pounds red sealing-wax, twenty to the
pound
10 do colored wax, various colors, in
6 dozen ebony standishes, Z inches long and
and wide, fifteen with cut-glass inks and
sands IL inch square, with a division
for waters, and top for the same, and a
division for pens
2 dozen cut-glass inkstands
SO gross red tape, No. Is
pound. India rubber, 40 pieces to the
10 dozen japanned wafer boxes
do do sand sifters
ivory-handled erasers
BY the act approved June IL, 1874, the Secretary
OF the Senate - "directed to confne his purchases
exclusively to articles the growth and manufacture
Of the United States, provided the same can be pro-
cured of such growth and manufacture of suitable
quality, and at reasonable prices, upon as good
terms as to quality and price be obtained Of
foreign growth and manufacture" A preference
will therefore be given to the productions Of Amer
lean industry; and all persons making proposals to
supply any article will state whether the same is Of
the growth and manufacture of the United States.
The articles will be delivered at the Office Of the
Secretary of the Senate at Washington, free of any
charge for carriage on or before the 9th of August
next, and will be paid for on delivery.
Specimens of the articles required may be seen at
the Office of the Secretary of the Senate. Every
article must be of the very best quality.
A sufficient specimen of each article proposed for
(of paper half quire) ia to accompany the pro-
posal, and to be marked with the name Of the pro-
poser. The whole of each article specified in the
foregoing list will be deemed class, and the per-
son offering to furnish any such class at the lowest
price equality considered) will receive contract for
the same, on executing bond with two or more
surees satisfactory to the Secretary Of the Senate,
for the performance thereof, under forfeiture Of
twice the contract price in of failure, which
bond il to be filed in the office Of the said Sec
rotary within ten days after the proposals have been
accepted.
Proposals should be endorsed aproposals for
Stationery for the Senate" and be directed to the
Secretary of the Senate at Washington.
ASBURY DICKINS,
Secretary of the Senate
Apr C6-1awAw