The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-23
PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.
Posr orrlcs DrpARrnKsr,

Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT.,
May %, lS45.
TN compliance with the seventeenth section Of the
Il act of Congress, .'legalizng and making appro-
priailons for such necessary objects as have beer
usually included in the general appropriation bills
without authority of law, and to fix and provide fol
certain incidental expenses of the departments, and
Offices OF the government, and for other purposes, u
approved August 26, 1912, SEALED PROPOSALS will
be received at this department until 3oclock, p m. Of
Saturday, the 2lst June next, for supplying such OF
the following stationery the department may order
during the year commencing LIST July, l645, and
ending 30th June, 1876, viz:
20 reams Sodthworth's Congress extra superfne
quarto post paper blue or white, feint
lined, weight 9pounds per ream
SO reams Jesup's first class quarto post, wove OF
laid, blue or white, feint lined; weight 81
pounds per ream
IL reams Palmer, Smith, & Co. extra sup. blue
wove quarto post paper, feint lined weight
81 pounds per rean
Is do do do white do do per ream
IL do do do unrued do do per ream
10 do Owen and Hurlbert's superior blue laid
foolscap, feint lined per ream
do Southworth's extra superior white wove
foolscap, feint lined, per ream
do do do white folio post, to weigh not
less than Is pounds, per reanl
do do do feint lined do per ream
10 reams bank folio post, blue, untrmmed, Is!
by 20 inches, per ream
10 do do white do do per renm
. do gilt note paper, by 5inches, per ream
100 do best machine or handmade cap, weight
IL pounds per ream
50 reams small royal writing paper for blanks,
% by La inches; weight % pounds, per
10 do royal do do 25 by 10 inches, weight
"a pounds, per ream
ITO do best machine or handmade quarto post,
weight pounds, per ream
do best yellow buff enveloping paper,
20 by 26 inches, per ream
81 do best yellow or buff enveloping paper, 81
by "a inches, per ream
do white enveloping paper, 20 by 25 inches,
fiat, per ream
$50 do double cap paper for blank post bills,
per ream
do extra snperfne cap, hand made, for post
masters bonds, per ream
100 do royal printing paper, per ream
4quires best drawing paper 81 by 40 inches,
do best tracing paper, 81 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
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
dozen
1000 Opaque quilts, No. so, per 1000
SO dozen Monroes black lead pencils, graduated,
per dozen
do Cohen's red lead do do per
dozen
do 9-inch ivory folders, per dozen
100 do red tape, No. Is, per dozen
do pieces silk TASTE per dozen
do cocoa sand boxes, per dozen
do do wafer stands, per dozen
do quart bottles Maynard & Noyes's black
ink, per dozen
| do do do Hover's do per dozen
do gill bottles do Arnold's red ink, per
25 pounds red waters, best, per pound
3 do pea do do per pound
do best scarlet sealing wax, per pound
do prepared India rubber per pound
dozen cut glass ink stands, 81 inches square,
pilared or plain, per dozen
dozen letter stamps, ivory handles, per dozen
dozen penknves Rodgers's BEST blades
do erasers, 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.
If it be required, each bidder must furnish with
his proposals, a sample, and but one sample, of
each article bid for.
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. eia
Bond, with security in twice the estimated amount
of the articles to be furnished will las the law de-
mands) be required of the person or persons con-
tracing; and in csse of failure fully to comply
with the terms of the contract, the contractor and
his surees will be liable for the forfeiture specified
in such bond as liqudate3 damages, to be sued for
in the name 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. H
C. JOHNSON,
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