The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-13

1860 !" blue saved list cloth
$50 :" green do do
460 scarlet do do
485 pounds worsted yarn
SO dozen cotton flag handkerchiefs
40 g" Madras do
sc black silk do
30 g. "a cotton shawls, assorted
1880 yards domestic calico
1880 English and French calico
$3.50 bleached cotton shifting
5000 unbleached do do
4,4OO do do sheeting
$500 domestic checks, stripes and plaids
1876 dozen woollen socks M
1880 yards plaid lnsey s Ej
3,4OO g fannels, assorted
446 flannel shirts
500 calico shirts
IS pounds linen thread
"a =" cotton do "a
36 sewing-silk
90 gross worsted gathering
$40 pieces ribands, assorted
100 gross fancy and clay pipes
SO pounds vermilion, Chinese
500 beads, assorted
1900 g brass kettles
465 tin kettles
46 nests japanned kettles (eigh, in a nest)
&c DOZEN ffying-pans
666 tin pans
600 tin cups
sc dozen 6re-steels assorted
rs = Britannia and paper looking-gasses
u gross buttons, assorted
$1,000 brass nails
$4,000 Ash-hooks
100 dozen 6shing-lines
ASSOC needles af
go dozen combs IA
40 scissors
Is iron spoons
SO pewter and tin plates (one-half ofeach)
10 packs pins
gross thimbles
81 augcrs #
81 dozen gimblets
233 dozen butcher knives
80 gross squaw avis
1900 gun aints.
10 gross gun worms
4lO northwest guns; two-thirds of which must
measure 36 inches in the barrel, and one
third 40 inches; 100 deliverable in the city
Of New York, and the residue at the place
where manufactured. Also S.st
81 dozen axes, TO weigh from s 70 s. pounds
III dozen half axes do 81 pounds
AZ dozen sauaw axes do 5 do
as dozen hatchets do II do
To be delivered at the place where manufactured.
A schedule Of the articles, with samples, may be
seen ut the Office of the Commissioner of Indian At
fairs, in Washington, exhibiting the amount of
money to be expended for each article; but the de-
partment reserves the right TO increase or diminish
the quantity of any Of the articles named or substi-
The whole amount in money to be applied to the
purchase of goods, will be about $85 900; of which
some 100000 will be wanted the seaboard, and
the residue in the west. Goods of American man
ufacture, all other things being equal, will be pre-
ferred. ss .as
The party proposing TO supply the articles will
make an invoice of all the items embraced in the
above list and afx the prices, in dollars and cents
at which he or they will furnish them, deliverable
in New York and St. Louis respectively, on or
before the fifteenth day of May next assuming
the quantity of each article specified in this adver-
tisement, and extending the cost, making aggre-
gate of the whole invoice before sending it on The
goods will be inspected at New York Or St. Louis by
agent of the United States, who will be appointed
by the department for the purpose, and ascertain
lie conformity of the articles purchased with the
samples exhibited, when the contract shall be made,
and with the terms of the contract ITSELF which shall
contain clause that if the articles are not furnished
within the time prescribed, or If they are Of INSULT
cient quality in the opinion of the agent aforesaid,
and if within five days. after notice Of such INSULT
cheney the party shall not furnish others in lieu
thereof, Of the required quality, the United States
shall be authorized to purchase them Of others, and
10 charge any increase of price they may be- COM
PEELED TO pay therefor to the contractor, who shall
pay the said difference to the United States.
AS these goods will not be ready for delivery be-
lore the middle of May, separate proposals. will be
received for their transportation from New York or
St Louis, to their destination in the Indian country
up TO- first Of March nsrt
Bonds will be required, in the amount of the bids
with two good sureties, the sufkciency of whom
TO be certlned Dy United states Judge or district
attorney, for the faithful performance of the con-
:racts. Payment viii be made after the contract is
completed, and the delivery of the goods at New
York and st. Louis respectively, to an agent of the
department., upon duplicate invoicc. certified by
him.
Communications to be marked, proposals for
indian goods"
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that are not
made in the form and terms here prescribed;
ri Cor we) propose to furnish, for the service Of
the Indian Department, the following goods, at the
prices affixed to them respectively, viz:
(Here insert the list Of goods.)
deliverable in the city of New York, or st.
Louis, on or before the $3.50 day Of ---- next;
and in Of the acceptance Of his proposal, the
quantity being prescribed by the department, Tor
we) will execute contract according to this agree
ment, and give satisfactory security TO the depart
rnent within eight days after the acceptance Of this
bid; and in case Of failure to enter into such con-
tract and give such security, Cor wei will pay to
The United States the difference between the sums
hidden by me, Cor us,) and the which the Uni
ted states.may be obliged to pay for the same ari-
cles.n
OrricE INDIAN AFFAIRS,
September 30, 1916.
It. HARTLEY CRAWFORD,
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs.
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