The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-06
1T ST. Louis, Missouri.

4 aSs !. 40 40 $40. DO do do
I4s 8 do green do
"a :" 3 do genlinella blue do
1850 yards blue strouds
1000 I" scarlet do
800 blue fancy, and gray lis, cloth
PIT green do do
By scarlet do do
1850 +" blue saved list cloth
$50 " green do do
460 " scarlet do do
ds5 pounds worsc,.
6S dozen cotton d. .,andkcrchicis
40 Madras do
66 black silk do
40 81 cotton shawls, assorted
1900 yards domestic calico
1880 English and French calico
2a3U bleached cotton shifting
5000 unbeached do do
440O do do shccting
$500 domestic Checks stripes and paids
126 dozen wooien socks
1880 yards plaid lnsey
3,l0O +" fannes, assorted
446 flannel shirts
500 calico shirts
s. pounds linen thread
n !" cotton do
36 +" scwing-silk
10 gross worsted gathering
$40 pieces ribands, assorted
100 gross fancy and clay pipes
50 pounds vermilion, Chinese
500 beads, assorted
200 6 brass kettles
465 tin kettles
46 nests japanned kettles (cght in nest)
36 dozen frying pans
G66 tin pans
GOO tin cups
&c dozen fire-steels, assorted
IS +" britannia and paper looking glasses
l2gross buttons, assorted
iG,0OO brass nails
3 10000 fsh-hooks
itU dozen fshing-lncs
1880 needles
40 dozen combs
40 scissors
SO pewter and Tin plates (one-lalf ofcach)
ID packs pins
gross thimbcs
CT augers s4.,,s
"a dozen gmbIeis
233 dozen butcher kniveH
% gross squaw avis
$4,000 gun aints
~ dozen strong hoes
10 gross gun worms
40 northwest guns; two-thrds Of which must
measure &c inches in the barrel, and one
third AZ inches; 100 deliverable in the city
of New York, and the residue at the place
where manufactured. Also
"a dozen axes, to weigh from $ to s. pounds
n dozen half axes do 3! pounds
AZ dozen squaw do 3 do
as dozen hatchets do Ii do
To be delivered ut the place where manufactured.
A schedule Of the articles, with samples may be
seen at the Office Of the Commissioner OF Indian Al
fnirs, in Washington, exhibiting the amount OF
money to be expended for each article; but the de-
partment reserves the right to increase diminish
The quantity ofany of the articles named, or substi-
tute others In lieu thereof.
The whole amount in money to be applied to the
purchase of goods will he about $685. 900; Of which
some $4,000 will be wanted on the seaboard, and
the residue in the west. Goods Of American man
ufacturc, all other things being equal, will DO pre-
ferred.
The party proposing to supply the articles will
make an invoice of all the items embraced in the
above list and ax the prices, in dollars and cents,
at which be or they will furnish them, deliverable
III New York and ST. Louis respectively, on or
before the fifteenth day Of May next, assuming
the quantity of each article specified in his ndver
tisemcnt, and extending the cost, making an aggre-
gate of the whole invoice before sending it on The
goods will be inspected at New York or st. Louis by
an agent Of the United States, who will be appointed
by the department for the purpose, and to ascertain
the conformity of the articles purchased with the
samples exhibited, when the contract shall be made,
and with the Of the contract ITSELF which shall
clause, that If the articles are not furnished
within the time prescribed, or If they are Of INSULT
Gent quality 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 10 purchase them OF Others and
to charge any increase of price they may be com.
PEELED to pay therefor to the contractor, who shal
pay the said difference to the United States.
As these goods will not DO ready for delivery be.
fore the middle Of May, separate proposals will bt
received for their transportation from New York OF
ST. Louis, to their destination in the Indian country
up to first Of March nerf.
Bonds will be required, in the amount of the bids
with two good sureties, the suffcency Of whom
TO be certified by United States Judge or district
attorney, for the faithful performances of the con.
tracts Payment will be made after the contract Il
completed, and the delivery of the goods at New
York and ST. Louis respectively, to agent of thu
department, upon duplicate invoice certified BY
aim.
Communications to be marked, Proposals fol
Indian goods"
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that no
made in the form and terms here prescribed
~ Tor wc) propose to furnish, for the service o
the indian Department the following goods, at thu
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 --- day of ------ next
and in Of the acceptance of his proposal, tn
quantity being prescribed by the department, 10
WEI will execute contract according TO this agree
ment, and give satisfactory security to the depart
ment, within eight days after the acceptance Of thu
bid and in Of failure TO enter into such con
tract and give such security, Tor we) viii pay Il
the United States the difference between the sum,
hidden by me- Cor us,) and the sum which the Uni
ted States may be Obliged to pay for the arti
clcs."
OrrIcR INDIAN Abrams,
September 80, I645.
r. HARTLEY CRAWFORD,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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