The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-15
PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY

fhOfOSALS fOk STATIONERY
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE senate U. s.
April &c, lS45
TN pursuance of the "Act legalizing and making
appropriations for such necessary objects as have
been usually included in the general appropriation
bills without authority of law, and to fix and pro-
vide for certain incidental expenses of the depart
ments and Offices of the government, and for other
approved the Goth of August, 1912,
sealed proposals will be received at this Office until
10 O'Clock, a. M, on Monday, the Goth Of May
next, for furnishing the following articles of sta
tionery for the use of the Senate each article to be
Of the very best quality, and to be approved by the
Secretary, viz:
$50 reams cartridge paper
so do white quadruple cap paper, smooth
surface, for envelopes
$50 do white single fiat cap paper, smooth
surface, for envelopes
90 do white veum cap paper, satin finish
plain
20 do white vellum cap paper, satin finish,
100 do white veum quarto post paper, satin
finish, feint lined
so do white vellum quarto post paper, satin
finish, plain
25 do white note paper, satin finish
10 do fancy tinted note paper
do plotting paper
IL dozen cap portfolios
do post portfolio IN
3gross black-lead pencils
3 dozen red-lead pencils
do four-blade penknives, pearl handles,
silver tipped
do four-bade penknives, of a smaller size
do do do buck handles
5000 clear quilts, No. 80
1000 opaque quilts, No. 80
l2 dozen vory,handled wafer stamps, checkered
do do do plain
IL do ivory folders, 8 inches long and inch
wide
10 gross large barrel steel pens
10 do small barrel do
10 do Windle's bullion pens
100 cards Perrys three-point pens
"a do do fat-spring do
gross Gillot's Peruvian pens
l do small pen handles
do large do
2 do haffpint jugs black ink
dozen ounce bottles red ink
rs pounds red waters, in canisters
dozen boxes transparent waters
100 pounds red seang-wax, ten sticks to the
100 pounds red sealing-wax, twenty to the
10 pounds black sealing-wax
10 do colored wax, various coors, in
boxes
dozen ebony standishes, inches long and
and wide, fifteen with cut-glass inks and
sands IL inch square, with division
for waters, and top for the same, and a
division for pens
dozen cutglass inkstands
SO gross red tape, No. Is
A pounds India rubber, 40 pieces to the
pound
IL dozen japanned wafer boxes
3 do do sand silers
6 ivory-handed erasers
By the act approved June II, 1874, the Secretary
If the Senate is "directed to confne his purchases
exclusively to articles the growth and manufacture
If the United States, provided the same can be pro-
;ured of such growth and manufacture of suitable
quality, and at reasonable prices, upon as good
erms as to quality and price can be obtained Of
oreign growth and manufacture" A preference
will therefore be given to the productions Of Amer
can industry; and all persons making proposals to
upply any article will state whether the same is Of
he growth and manufacture of the United States
The articles will be delivered at the Office of the
Secretary Of the Senate at Washington, free of any
harge for carriage on or before the 9th of August
lext, and will be paid for on delivery.
Specimens of the articles required may be seen at
he office of the Secretary of the Senate. Every
'rticle must be Of the very best quality.
A sufficient specimen Of each article proposed for
of paper half quire) is to accompany the pro-
,osal, and to be marked with the name of the pro-
poser The whole of each article specified in the
foregoing list will be deemed class, and the per-
ION offering to furnish any such class at the lowest
price equality considered will receive contract for
he same, on executing bond, with two or more
,uretes satisfactory TO the Secretary of the Senate
FOR the performance thereof, under a forfeiture of
wice the contract price in case of failure, which
bond is to be filed in the Office of the said Sec
rotary within ten days after the proposals have been
accepted.
Proposals should be endorsed proposals for
for the Senate,o and be directed to the
Secretary of the Senate at Washington.
ASBURY DICKINS,
Secretary of the Senate
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