The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-11

Posr orpIcK DEPARTMENT,

May 20, l645.
compliance with the seventeenth section OF the
l. 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 26, 1912, SEALED PRePosALs win
be received at this department until 3o'cock D. M of
Saturday, the 2lst June next, for supplying such of
the following stationery the department may order
during the year commencing LIST July, lS45, and
ending 30th June, 1916, viz:
90 reams Southworth's Congress extra superfne
quarto post paper, blue or white, feint
lined, weight pounds per ream
SO reams Jesups first class quarto post wove or
laid, blue or white, feint lined; weight 81
pounds per ream
IL reams Platner, Smith, g. Co. extra sup. blue
equarto post paper, feint lined; weight
81 pounds per ream
Is do do do white do do per rcam
~ do do do unruled do do per ream
10 do Owen and Hurlbert's superior blue laid
foolscap, feint lined, per ream
Y do Southworth's extra superior white wove
foolscap, faint lined, perrsam
2 do do do white folio posi-, 10 weigh not
less than 10 pounds, per ream qg
do do do feint lined do per ream
10 reams bank folio post, blue, untrimmed, 1871
by % inches, per ream
10 do do white do do per ream
do gilt note paper, 8 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 In 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,
weights pounds, per ream
do best yellow or buff enveloping paper,
C1 bv Dc inches mar roam
SO do best yellow or buff enveloping paper, 81
by 81 inches, per ream
l do white enveloping paper, 20 by Is inches,
fiat, per ream
$50 do double cap paper for blank post bills,
per ream
do extra superfne cap, hand made, for post
masters bonds, per ream
100 do royal printing paper, per ream
qures best drawing paper, q by 40 inches,
per quire
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 Aldens patent elastic penholders, per
dozen
1000 opaque quilts, No. 80, per 1000
36 dozen Monroe's black lead pencils, graduated,
per dozen
4 do Cohen's red lead do do per
3 do 9-inch ivory folders, per dozen
100 do red tape, No. l6, per dozen
l do pieces silk taste, per dozen
l do cocoa sand boxes, per dozen
do do wafer stands, per dozen
ID kntt II a NJ, 80 klac1r
ink, per dozen
l do do do Hover's do per dozen
7 do gill bottles do Arnold's red ink, per
dozen
IS poundsred waters, best, per pound
9 do pea do do per pound
do best scarlet sealing wax, per pound
do prepared India rubber, per pound
2 dozen cut glass ink stands, 81 inches square,
pillared or plain, per dozen
2 dozen letter stamps, ivory handles, per dozen
S dozen penknives, Rodgers's best, blades
do erasers, Rodgerss, ivory handles, in
cases, per dozen
l do best paper shears or scissors, six inches,
In order to secure uniformity, blank forms for
proposals will be furnished on application to the
department.
lift 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.
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 case of failure fully to comply
with the terms of the contract, the contractor and
his suretes will be liable for the forfeiture specified
in such bond liquidatea 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.
C. JOHNSON,
MAY 23-law4w Postmaster General.