The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-31
PROPOSALS Foa STATIONERY,
Posr orrlcE prrAarMEsr,

TN compliance with the seventeenth section Of the
i act of Congress, "legalizing and making apple
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, 1912, SEALED PROPOSALS will
be received at this department until CLOCK, p. m oil
Saturday, the 2lst June next, for supplying such OF
the following stationery as the department may order
during the year commencing LIST July, l645, and
ending both june, 1646, viz:
20 reams Southworths Congress extra superfne
quarto post paper, blue or white, feint
lined, weight pounds per ream
so reams yesup's first class quarto post, woye or
laid blue or white, feint lined; weight 81
- reams Platner, Smith, g. Co. extra sup. blue
wove quarto post paper, fent lined; weight
81 pounds per ream ,tes. @slAs
Is do do do white do do per ream
~ do do do unruled do do per ream
10 do Owen and Hurlbert's superior blue laid
foolscap, feint lined, per ream
5 do SouthwOrth's extra superior white wove
fooscap, fent lined, per ream
do do do white folio post, to weigh not
less than 10 pounds, per rean
do do do feint lined do per ream
10 reams bank folio post, blue, untrimmed 49,
by 20 inches, per ream
10 do do white do do per ream
do gilt note paper by 5inches, per ream
100 do best machine or handmade cap, weight
IL pounds per ream
SO reams small royal writing paper for blanks,
% by lac inches; weight % pounds, per
ream
10 do royal do do 25 by 10 inches weight
"a pounds, per ream
ITO do best machine or handmade quarto post
weight s pounds, per ream
do best yellow or buff enveoping paper,
20 by rs inches, per ream
SO do best yellow or buff enveloping paper, 81
by ~ inches, per ream
! do white enveIoping paper, 20 by 25 inches,
fiat, per ream
$50 do double cap paper for blank post bills,
per ream
6 do extra superine cap, hand made, for post.
masters bonds, per ream
100 do royal printing paper, per ream
4quires best drawing paper, 81 by 40 inches,
per qure
do best tracing paper, "a by 40 inches, per
quire
so dozen cards steel pens, (the department to have
the liberty of selecting from all the diff
ferent kinds manufactured, English or
American, in the market, per dozen
cards
l gross Damascus pens, in boxes, with one
dozen holders, per gross
do other steel pens In boxes, with one
dozen holders TO each gross, per gross
2dozen Alden's patent elastic penholders, per
1000 opaque quilts, No. so, per 1000
SO dozen Monroe's black lead pencils, graduated,
per dozen
do Cohen's red lead do do per
dozen
3 do 9-inch ivory folders, per dozen
100 do red tape, No l6, per dozen
do pieces silk TASTE per dozen
l do cocoa sand boxes, per dozen
/ do do wafer stands, per dozen
do quart bottles Maynard & Noyes's black
ink hnUn y. .
4 do do do Hover's do per dozen
7 do gill bottles do Arnold's red ink, per
dozen
25 pounds red waters, best, per pound
9 do pea do. do per pound
do best scarlet sealing wax, per pound
9 do prepared India rubber, per pound !
2 dozen Gu; glass ink stands, 81 inches square,
plared or plain, per dozen
2 dozen letter stamps, ivory handles, per dozen
dozen penknives, Rodgers's best, blades
l do cruisers, Rodgers's, ivory handles, in
cases, per dozen
/ do best paper shears or scissors, six inches,
per dozen
In order TO secure uniformity, blank forms for
proposals will be furnished, on application to the
department.
lfit be required each bidder must furnish with
his proposals, a sample, and but one sample, Of
Each article must be bid for, and no more than
one price named for any one article
Bids not fully conforming to the advertisement
will not be considered.
Each bid must be accompanied by ample testimo-
ny Of the ability of the bidder to comply with his
proposal.
Bond, with security in twice the estimated amount
of the articles to be furnished will (as the law de-
mands) be required of the person or persons con-
tracing; and in of failure fully to comply
with the terms Of the contract the contractor and
his sureties will be liable for the forfeiture specified
in such bond, as liqudated damages to be sued for
in the of the United States, in any court hav-
ing 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 annul the
contract upon any failure to comply in reasonable
time.
c. JOHNSON,
May 23-law4w Postmaster General.