The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-19
PROPOSALS FOR BLANK BOOKS AND
BINDING.
posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, May


Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT, May %, lS45.
TN compliance with the seventeenth section of the
i 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 rs, 1872 SEALED PROPOSALS will be
received at this department until o'clock, p. m OF
Saturday. the 2lst June next, for supplying such Of
the following blank books, and for executing such
of the following binding, as the department may re-
quire during the year commencing LIST July, lS45,
ard ending 30th June, 1876, viz:
3 Appropriation Legers, 6 quires each, medium,
ruled red and feint, ,oih printed captions, bound
in calf spring backs, Russia bands and ends,
and lettcred, per book.
A Journals, quires medium, ruled red and fent,
calf, spring backs, Russia bands and ends, let
tered and numbered, per book
A Letter Books, quires demi, full Russia, spring
backs, ruled red and fent lettered and number
ed per book.
2 Draft Books, quires each, double cap, ruled
red and feint, with printed captions, full Rsssia,
spring backs and lettered, per book.
2 Dead Letter Registers, 6 qures each, double
cap, ruled red and feint, calf, spring backs,
Russia bands and ends, with printed captions,
per book.
Register of Quarterly Returns, 10 quires double
cap with printed captions, ruled red and fent,
full Russia, spring back, ettered and numbered,
per book.
l Depreciation Register, quires super royal, ex-
ira ruling, red and fen calf, Russia bands and
ends, spring back, lettered and numbered, per
book.
I Register of Depositing Offices, quires medium,
ruled, red and feint, with printed captions, full
Russia, spring back, ettered and numbered, per
book.
! Fine book, quires royal, ruled red and feint,
with printed captions, full Russia, spring back,
lettered and numbered, per book.
4 Route Registers, qures each, medium, ruled
red and feint, calf, spring backs, with Russia
bands and ends and lettered, per book.
2 Appendix to Route Registers, A quires each, me-
dunn, ruled red and feint, calf, spring backs,
with Russia bands and ends, and lettered, per
book.
2 Index Books to Route Registers, 5 quires each,
cap, ruled and feint, calf, spring backs Russia
bands and ends and lettered, per book.
Journals quires each, demi ruled red and feint,
calf, spring backs, and lettered, per book
2 Index to Journals quires each, cap long folio,
ruled red and feint, half bound, calf backs and
corners, and ettered, per book.
l Register for executed contracts, quires, me-
dunn, ruled red and feint, with printed captions,
calf, spring backs, and lettered, per book.
8 Letter Books, qures each, medium, ruled red
and feint, calf, spring backs, Russia bands and
ends, with indexes, lettered and numbered, per
book.
The paper in the above books to be of the very
best quality hand or machine made, laid or wove,
as may be preferred.
The department retains the right to increase the
number of qures each or any of the above books,
by allowing pro rata for the additional paper used
Half binding six volumes newspapers, calf backs
and ends, per vol.
Folding, stitching, and cutting 5000 copies "Pro-
posals,n about eleven sheets octave, per copy.
Labelling with morocco, and lettering SO books,
(more or less,) two labels each, per volume.
Should any book or work not herein described
be ordered it is to be done at price to be fixed by
the department, proportonatey equal to that OF
the kind most like it.
Specimens of the different books now in use may
be seen at the department.
In order to secure uniformity blank forms for
proposals will be furnished on application to the
department.
Each proposal must be signed by the individual,
or firm, making it, and must specify the price, and
but one price, for each and every item in the fore
going advertisement; otherwise it will not be con-
sidered.
Each bid must be accompanied by ample testi-
monias 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 or persons contracting;
and in of a failure to perform the work, the
contractor and his suretes will be liable for the for
fixture specified in such bond, as lquidated dam
az es, 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 annul the
contract upon any failure to comply in reasonable
time. G. JOHNSON,
May 23-law4w Postmaster General